Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has defended the widely-criticised use of his presidential plane to fly his daughter and daughter-in-law to Germany to give birth, saying the decision was based on security considerations. Museveni said that he feared that local doctors with partisan political leanings might harm the two women.
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/ 30 September 2003
Ugandan women are not buying the female condom. They have complained it is too expensive, too bulky and too noisy during sex. The government has announced at a family planning conference that it is suspending its efforts to promote the female condom because it is not widely accepted.
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/ 23 September 2003
The death toll in a head-on collision in Uganda between a speeding bus and a truck loaded with relief food has risen to 47, and seven bus passengers remained in critical condition on Tuesday. Most passengers were from Rwanda, but there were also nationals from Burundi and Uganda.
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/ 1 September 2003
Ugandan insurgents killed 22 civilians and abducted an unknown number at the weekend in the northern and north-eastern regions of the country, officials said on Monday.
A son of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, who died at a hospital in Saudi Arabia, is still preparing for war to topple the Kampala government from bases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a senior Ugandan military official said Saturday.
Idi Amin Dada, VC, CBE .. RIP
Idi Amin dies in Saudi hospital
Rebels have ambushed trucks belonging to the United Nations’s World Food Programme, which were delivering food to hungry people in the remote Karamoja region of north eastern Uganda. Six WFP employees, three drivers and their helpers are still unaccounted for.
Graca Machel on Tuesday urged Ugandan authorities to share lessons learned in its fight against Aids with other African states.
Lying in a coma in a Saudi Arabian hospital, Uganda’s notorious former dictator Idi Amin has no idea about the debate that is raging in his home country over whether he should be allowed to return home.
My brutal muse, Idi Amin
Idi Amin, whose 1971 to 1979 reign in Uganda was one of the bloodiest in Africa’s modern history, is in a coma and on a life support machine in Saudi Arabia, one of his wives said on Saturday.
Uganda on Thursday welcomed news that the chief prosecutor of the new International Criminal Court is to look into allegations of war crimes in Democratic Republic of Congo, and urged that the perpetrators ”be brought to justice”.
Security forces and rebels in northern Uganda have stepped up atrocities such as illegal killings, torture, rape and abduction over the last year, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Uganda’s parliamentary defence committee last week proposed hiring South African mercenaries to ”eliminate” rebels who are destabilising parts of the country.
Thousands of children took to the streets of the northern Ugandan town of Kitgum on Monday calling for an end to the war in the region, church sources in the region said.
The Ugandan army rescued 249 children during the last two weeks from rebels who abducted the kids, the army spokesperson said on Monday.
US President George Bush was due to pay a brief official visit to Uganda on Friday on the penultimate leg of a whirlwind five-nation tour of Africa.
They always knew that elements in Sudan’s army were still fuelling the war in northern Uganda, despite official denials. But they could never find conclusive proof. Now northern Uganda’s peace brokers say they have it.
Church leaders in north Uganda have spent the Sunday night on verandahs of Gulu town to highlight the plight of thousands of children who leave their homes in the suburbs, fearful of being abducted by rebels, and come to sleep on the town’s streets.
At least 100 Congolese were killed over the weekend in an attack by rival tribal fighters on a fishing village on the Democratic Republic of Congo-Uganda border, a senior Ugandan military commander said on Monday.
A Roman Catholic priest has criticised the Ugandan army’s use of helicopter gunships during operations against rebels, saying many children abducted by the insurgents had been killed in such raids.
The Ugandan military claimed on Saturday that it had killed at least 40 fighters of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army during an encounter in the north of the country.
Rebels in northern Uganda have abducted a record number of children since government forces launched an offensive against rebel bases in southern Sudan a year ago, a human rights organisation said on Friday.
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/ 6 February 2003
More than 10 000 people were forced out of a camp for people displaced by a rebellion in northern Uganda after a fire burned down thousands of mud and straw huts in the camp, an official said on Thursday.
The Ugandan army has killed over 300 Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and lost 40 of its own soldiers since it embarked on its ”Operation Iron Fist” in southern Sudan last March.
Ugandan officials said on Friday they had found United Nations insignia in the charred wreckage of a bus that burst into flames the previous day after a collision with a runaway fuel tanker, killing about 60 people.
Italian private enterprises have cancelled an outstanding debt of ,44-million owed by Uganda, the Italian embassy said on Wednesday.
Nearly one million Ugandans have died as a result of Aids since the deadly disease was first identified in the East African nation in 1983, the Health Ministry said.
Senegalese President Abdoudalaye Wade said Friday the New Partnership for African Development has plans to construct a tunnel linking Africa with Europe under the Mediterranean sea.
The Ugandan army killed five Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and captured 14 others in an ambush on Friday.
Rebels in northern Uganda raided a village in the district of Gulu early on Thursday and hacked 14 people to death.
Uganda’s leading independent newspaper began publishing again on Thursday, after being closed for a week by the government for reporting that a military helicopter was shot down by rebels.
Uganda’s leading independent newspaper, The Monitor, was back in circulation on Friday after a week-long closure by the government because it reported that a military helicopter had been shot down by rebels fighting the government in the northern part of the country.