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There is growing evidence that battle-hardened extremists are filtering out of safe havens along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and into East Africa, bringing sophisticated terrorist tactics that include suicide attacks.
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People talk about the future, yet climate change is claiming lives now, notably in Africa. The nations, governors and those governed must stand up and be counted.
The...
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Here is the political scientist Richard Joseph of the Brookings Institution on Yoweri Museveni’s Uganda: “[Uganda] is the model country in the...
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MICROSOFT in conjunction with the Uganda Performing Rights Society (UPRS) have nabbed Asians in Kampala with pirated computer software.
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In a country with only a 5% of the population holding permanent employment, mostly the elderly, the youth find it very hard to find employment after school. The youth...
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Homosexuality is a learnable skill. That is a conclusion reached by most people who talk about the heavily condemned vice in an otherwise christian country. Here are my...
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“At school, she plays sex in class!” the little girl blurted, adding: “Sometimes in the school bus, she kisses her boyfriend!”
Tugume’s mother was shocked....
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AP, United Nations
A young woman abducted and repeatedly raped by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda told the Security Council on Wednesday how she became a rifle-toting child...
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Since the circus surrounding the one acre piece of rock named Migingo Island gained momentum, I have always refrained myself from throwing tantrums towards Uganda...
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A born again christian, Tom Kulwande murdered his marriage partner, a mother of his twelve children, with a kitchen knife due to frustrations over being denied sex and...
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With competition for scarce subscribers heating up, telecom companies are looking at fine-tuning their network infrastructure to offer that extra service other...
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Uganda’s central bank whose governor has been always quoted saying that the nation would not be affected by the global financial crisis, is finally feeling the...
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AP, Kampala
Uganda began withdrawing troops hunting brutal Lord’s Resistance Army rebels in neighboring Congo after the deadline for them to there expired Sunday, a Ugandan...
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AP, Kampala
Police say a building has collapsed in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, killing at least five people. Dozens are trapped under the rubble.
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In Just a week, a lot of developments in the mobile phone market is happening to keep track of. This is a business that is not in any way talking or reeling of a...
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AP, Kampala
A cargo plane carrying equipment for peacekeepers in Somalia caught fire and crashed into Uganda’s Lake Victoria shortly after take off Monday, authorities said....
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AP, Kampala
A cargo plane caught fire and crashed into Lake Victoria near Uganda’s main airport on Monday, killing seven people, an army spokesman said.
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AP, Kampala
Police say a cargo plane has crashed near Uganda’s main airport into Lake Victoria. There is no immediate word on casualties.
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A top military intelligence official says the Somali extremist group al-Shabaab is poised to formally merge with al-Qaida, expanding the terrorist franchise in East...
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AP, Washington
Authorities monitored a rush of intelligence leads Tuesday at the largest security operation in presidential inauguration history, including a possible threat from an...
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AP, Washington
Authorities monitored a rush of intelligence leads Tuesday at the largest security operation in presidential inauguration history, including a possible threat from an...
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AP, Mogadishu
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AP, Nairobi
Suspects arrested in a clandestine anti-terrorism sweep in East Africa nearly two years ago have been abandoned by their governments, a human rights group said in a...
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AP, Paris
French officials have filed preliminary charges against six suspected Somali pirates accused of taking two French citizens captive off the coast of East Africa this...
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AP, Mombasa
Court officials say three Kenyans have been released on bail after being charged with harboring a man accused of masterminding the bombings of two American embassies in...
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AP, Mombasa
A man accused of masterminding the bombings of two American embassies in East Africa 10 years ago escaped a police raid early Sunday, a senior Kenyan policeman said.
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AP, Kampala
The U.S. Embassy in Uganda says Americans in East Africa may be at an increased risk of attack from terrorists as the 10th anniversary of a double bombing approaches.
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AP, Geneva
Cell phone users in East Africa will be able to receive warnings when a storm is brewing thanks to a low-cost alert system U.S. scientists are hoping to set up in the...
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Kenya is in troubled waters again with the collapse of the Kofi Annan-brokered political truce between the government and the opposition. Despite the best efforts of...
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AP, Paris
The French Foreign Ministry says elite French troops are being sent to East Africa to bolster efforts to free captives held by pirates holding their yacht off...
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Although, global warming has been mostly blamed for climate change, people should take the sunspots into consideration as well. A recent observation by the scientists,...
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These would include the nations of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The tourism industry here will have to rise up the stakes to fulfill the demands of this combined East...
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Do you know climate change is contributing hugely to the spread of malaria in the East African highlands? Yes, it is. Defynig previous research on this, a new modeling...
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