The Ugandan army claimed on Tuesday that it had killed 54 Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fighters during an air raid on Monday in southern Sudan. Since 2002 the Khartoum government has allowed Ugandan forces to conduct operations against the LRA in parts of southern Sudan.
At least 22 civilians were killed and 11 wounded in an overnight rebel attack on a displaced people’s camp near the northern Ugandan town of Gulu, an aid worker and an army spokesperson said on Monday. ”Many people were either shot or hacked to death,” a Norwegian Refugee Council programme manager said.
More than 1,6-million people driven from their homes during Uganda’s 18-year civil war risk losing their main source of food as international donors grow weary of the conflict, a United Nations food agency official said on Friday. Fund-raising from wealthy nations to pay for the programme has fallen -million short.
Rebel attacks in northern Uganda have forced more than 20 000 refugees to flee their camps in recent weeks, the United Nations refugee agency said Sunday. The rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army have been raiding four camps in Adjumani district to loot food, medicine and other goods since the beginning of April.
Eleven civilians and two soldiers were killed when suspected rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed a convoy of vehicles in northwestern Uganda, the army said on Friday. The LRA, at war with the Ugandan government for nearly two decades, is notorious for committing atrocities against civilians.
HIV-positive women are less likely to get pregnant and more likely to have a miscarriage, according to a study conducted in Uganda.
People with disabilities in Uganda say they have been marginalised for too long. They are now demanding that their basic rights be restored and recognised. Members of the Uganda National Association of the Deaf said the government should commit itself to granting them access to education and employment.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has renewed his appeal to the West to open up its markets to enable Africa to achieve food security. He was speaking to delegates attending an international meeting on food security, organised by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute.
A Ugandan court has acquitted three journalists charged with endangering national security for reporting that rebels had shot down an army helicopter. Chief Magistrate Frank Othembi ruled on Wednesday in a Kampala court that the government presented ”no evidence” that the story endangered national security.
”There are six boreholes in this camp between 60 000 people — that’s one for each 10 000. Each family gets only two jerry cans full per day, and sometimes you have to wait 24 hours to get yours.” Many of the children at the Pabbo Internally Displaced Persons camp have never known anything other than life inside the parameters that house 60 000 people.
A Ugandan king is demanding a trillion pounds in compensation from the British monarchy for decimating the population of his kingdom in the late 1890s, a spokesperson for the king said on Thursday. The king also accuses British soldiers of plundering from his land during the British military occupation from 1894 to 1900.
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/ 26 February 2004
The Ugandan Parliament has passed a motion calling for the insurgency-hit north to be officially declared a disaster zone and urging the international community to help end the violence, officials said on Thursday. Only the president has the mandate to declare a region a disaster area.
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/ 18 February 2004
”We are going to shout about bride price across Africa and we are going to say ‘no’ to the sale of women,” exclaimed Atuki Turner to a crowded hall at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Turner was speaking at the opening this week of the first international conference on the tradition of bride price.
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/ 15 February 2004
A tanker truck carrying diesel fuel collided with a packed minibus and burst into flames on a Ugandan road, killing at least 32 people, police said on Sunday. The tanker was travelling toward Kampala when a car heading in the opposite direction tried to overtake slower-moving vehicles and slammed into the truck.
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/ 12 February 2004
Uganda’s Supreme Court highest judges have struck off the country’s statutes a law oppressive to the media, saying it ”puts the press and other media in a dilemma” and determines what they should publish. The ruling comes after editors of the local Monitor newspaper were charged with publishing what the state said was false news.
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/ 7 February 2004
Hail a taxi in New York City, and the odds are that your driver will be a wise-cracking male cabbie who’s unafraid to share his philosophy about life with you. But, do the same in Kampala, and you may just get a sharp female graduate who’s turned to taxi driving as a way of getting ahead in Uganda’s uncertain job market.
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/ 6 February 2004
Twenty people were still missing from a camp for displaced people in northern Uganda’s Lira district on Friday, two days after about 50 people there were killed during an attack by Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, officials said. About 300 LRA fighters attacked Abia camp, near the northern town of Lira, on Wednesday evening.
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/ 4 February 2004
The number of people who drowned following a boat accident on Monday on a lake in north-western Uganda has risen to 42 after police retrieved 23 more bodies from the lake’s shorelines on Tuesday evening, a senior police marine officer said. The boat was overloaded with more than 80 people.
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/ 3 February 2004
About 40 people were feared dead on Tuesday after a ferry sank on stormy Lake Albert near Uganda’s border with Congo, a senior police officer said on Tuesday. A boat crammed with about 80 passengers and piles of goods capsized on Monday just south of Panyimur landing site, about 280km northwest of Kampala.
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/ 8 December 2003
The Ugandan army has denied reports from local leaders in the country’s troubled northern Lira district that up to 70 bodies from Lord’s Resistance Army attacks have been recovered in the last week. "There is no way that there could be a killing on that scale and we fail to know." said an army spokesperson.
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/ 25 November 2003
Fashion capitals of the world: New York, London, Paris … Kampala? Well, if Santa Anzo has anything to do with this, it’ll only be a matter of time. She is the brains behind the first-ever Uganda Fashion Week, which wrapped up this weekend in the country’s capital. The event, inspired by fashion weeks held elsewhere in the world, attracted 30 exhibitors — of whom all but three were 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.
Relief agencies working in northern Uganda on Thursday urged the government to dismantle camps housing displaced persons, saying they lacked adequate security.
Africa activists warned US President George Bush on Friday that ”real” leaders keep their promises, as he met Aids victims just hours after Congress limited funding for his multi-billion dollar plan to fight the virus.
US President George Bush said on Friday that Uganda’s journey out of the scourge of Aids serves as a successful example for global efforts to contain the pandemic.
US President George Bush arrived on Friday for a four-hour visit to Uganda, during which he will meet President Yoweri Museveni and Aids orphans.
If Chaza Makiduki is lucky, one day he might forget how he was orphaned. ”I am alone, all my family was killed. I don’t know where we are going, can you help me?”
At the Protestant church in Ntoroko, in Uganda’s western Bundibugyo district, Hallelulia, resplendent in his Sunday best, strikes up his bass guitar.
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/ 25 February 2003
Uganda’s war-ravished northern provinces are in worse shape than at any time since the fighting began 15 years ago, according to United Nations officials. Recently 17 children were abducted in northern Uganda by the rebels, who will train them to fight the Ugandan army
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has received a Commonwealth award for action on HIV/Aids.