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Opening a parliamentary conference on maternal and newborn health in Kampala yesterday, President Yoweri Museveni said rampant drug theft in Uganda was partly responsible for the high maternal and child mortality rates.
“In Uganda, we have been...
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The mood of fear has once again reasserted itself in Ugandan society.
This comes mainly ahead of the general elections due in 2011. Timothy Kalyegira looks at why?
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Uganda’s former army chief James Kazini has been killed at his girlfriend’s flat in the capital, Kampala.
A BBC correspondent says Maj Gen Kazini died...
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The border between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo is being redrawn — by a river!
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The last...
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nalysis of the national voters’ register confirmed that “some ghost voters existed”. Speaking at a monthly caucus of MPs from the ruling party, President Museveni...
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THE Government is going to crack down on media houses that publish pornography, ethics minister James Buturo announced on Thursday.
Radio stations that advertise...
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Gerald...
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Homosexuals should not be killed but instead imprisoned for life, religious leaders have suggested.
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According to the UN Development Program, the Afghan fertility rate is second highest in the world at 7.5 children per woman, every 28 minutes a woman dies in...
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.5 million women die in childbirth each year. Most of these deaths could be prevented if the women had access to a skilled birth attendant. The leaders of the...
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