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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.
Uganda was on Tuesday halfway through withdrawing some 500 of its soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s northern town of Gbadolite.
Visiting US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said that aid to Africa was better used when channelled directly to grassroots-level community projects
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.
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.
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/ 13 September 2001
Botswana, Brazil, Thailand and Uganda were given awards for their actions against Aids.
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