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Jul 1 2008, John

A mother upon hearing her daughter’s alarm rushes to find out the trouble in Mbarara district, Uganda. she finds a man defiling her daughter and uses her garden knife to cut off his manhood.

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Jun 7 2008 by AP0 Comments

Fighting between Ugandan rebels and Sudanese soldiers killed at least 23 people in a remote area near the countries’ border this week, rebel and military officials said.

 
 
Jun 1 2008 by AP0 Comments

Stephen Batte works in a quarry under the blazing sun, chipping rocks into gravel with a homemade hammer. It’s tiring, boring and dangerous.

 
 
Apr 19 2008 by AP0 Comments

Ten people being held in connection with a fire that killed 19 Ugandan schoolgirls are all school employees, a senior police official said Saturday.

 
 
Apr 18 2008 by AP0 Comments

A police spokeswoman says 10 people have been arrested in connection with a fire that killed at least 19 Ugandan schoolgirls.

 
 
Apr 15 2008 by AP0 Comments

An overnight fire destroyed a primary school dormitory in Uganda, leaving 19 schoolgirls and two adults dead, police said Tuesday.

 
 
Apr 15 2008 by AP0 Comments

An overnight fire a primary school dormitory in Uganda killed 19 school children and two adults, police said Tuesday.

 
 
Apr 15 2008 by AP0 Comments

Police in Uganda say a school dormitory caught fire overnight, killing 19 young students and two adults inside.

 
 
Apr 12 2008 by AP0 Comments

A fugitive rebel leader failed to show up in a jungle clearing Friday to sign a peace agreement, quashing the latest hopes for a resolution to a vicious Ugandan insurgency.

 
 
Apr 11 2008 by AP0 Comments

A peace deal to end one of Africa’s longest wars broke down Friday when a fugitive rebel leader failed to show up in a jungle clearing to sign the agreement, negotiators said.

 
 
Apr 10 2008 by AP0 Comments

Officials gave conflicting reports about why Uganda’s fugitive rebel leader did not sign a peace accord Thursday to end one of Africa’s longest wars, raising doubts about the agreement’s fate.

 
 
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Nov 3 2007 by Rhapsodysinger0 Comments

Maurine Akello has done what adults have not been able to do. But then again, who has suffered as much as these bush-girls forced into sexual-slavery in a civil-war torn Uganda. Akello has set up a peer-driven empowering agency, Empowering Hands, for...

 
 
Aug 6 2007 by Himadree0 Comments

An analysis conducted by the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that children in those countries who were forced to fighting wars are more vulnerable to post–war disorders and hence more likely to have a revenge motive burning within...

 
 
Jul 12 2007 by Adheesha0 Comments

In a world where Man fights Man, Betty Bigombe has assumed the role of a true Woman.

She has made her way as a peace negotiator through the vicious battle of two powerful men. And she has been successful, at least to some extent. Uganda’s hopes for...

 
 
May 26 2007 by Naresh Chauhan0 Comments

Africa looks set for yet another armed conflict as peace negotiation between the LRA and the Ugandan government in the Southern Sudanese capital, Juba, is on the brink after repeated accusations of infringement of truce from either side.

After...

 
 
Apr 30 2007 by Irani0 Comments

It was in the last decades of the 20th century, loss of habitat, disease and poaching in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda has disappointingly led to the decreasing number of the gorillas in the last places where mountain gorillas still...

 
 
Apr 10 2007 by Rajni0 Comments

Sipi Falls is one of Uganda’s most romantic and beautiful falls. There are three levels of falls, but the two upper levels are fairly small compared with the main drop.

The fall is about 55km north of Mbale, in the foothills of Mt Elgon and...

 
 
Mar 30 2007 by Pooja0 Comments

Kamilat Mehdi, a twenty one year old girl has been stalked by a person in Eithiopia. While she was on her way back home, the person came from the shadows and threw sulphuric acid on her face. Not only the acid distorted her face but it also disfigured...

 
 
Mar 29 2007 by Pankaj0 Comments

Mogadishu has returned to a nightmare only seen in the early days of the civil war. The fighting is worst since the war over the New Year to kick out the Islamists and put President Abdullahi Yusuf’s interim government in the capital.

The...

 
 
Mar 22 2007 by Kanchan0 Comments

When one thinks of going to Africa only safaris come to mind, yet it is developing into a region of cultural and sustainable tourism as well.

The Dufile fort was built by the native Madi people, who were among the first tribes in Africa to come ...

 
 
Mar 8 2007 by Kuhika0 Comments

350 Ugandan troops of the African Union peacekeeping force arrived in Mogadishu on Tuesday in order to replace Ethiopian troops which have been stationed in Somalia since January helping the government maintain law and order in the volatile country. In...

 
 
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Stephen Bati, 10 years old, who lost his mother in the quarry in January when she was buried by a mud slide, breaks rocks in the Acholi Quarters, a slum located in Kireka, Kampala Uganda Friday, Feb. 29, 2008.