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1.02 billion people have gone hungry this year, according to a report released this year. This comes at a time when several regions in East Africa are threatened by famine due to drought. Rwanda, for its part, looks at the moment to be holding its own.
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The gay community in Uganda has turned to social media — blogs, twitter, mailing lists and Facebook — in a bid to garner support for its opposition to the...
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The year 2009 shall be best remembered as the ‘Black Year’ in the media fraternity in Uganda and the reasons for this have always been certain.
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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Ugandan security agencies on Friday foiled a bomb plot in the capital Kampala just a week after Somali militants threatened terror attacks on the city.
Gerald...
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A primary school head teacher in Luweero District could lose his job amid accusations that he strip-searched five girls who were accused of stealing money from another...
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Homosexuals should not be killed but instead imprisoned for life, religious leaders have suggested.
Making their input in the Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009 yesterday,...
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Journalists in developing countries have one common problem with governments.....persecution! And then, when the journalists are persecuted, it obviously become media...
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A Belgian tourist who was arrested on Saturday for taking pictures of naked girls and women in Gulu has been sent to prison on remand.
Mr Peter Kets, a 39-year-old man...
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Turkish website hackers are on rampange defacing government and media websites in developing countries. The latest casuality in the Kampala dispatch (a newsletter) that...
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PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has warned Islamist rebels who threatened to attack Kampala that they will pay a heavy price if they did so.
“Those groups, I would advise...
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The chattels security bill 2009 being debated in parliament, will if passed into law, grant Ugandans the ability to access loans using household property. Banks usually...
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One out of every 10 names in the national voters register is a ghost, an NRM special internal investigation has revealed.
The report, commissioned in May by NRM...
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Kenya has once again topped the list of the most corrupt countries in the region. Transparency international’s bribery index says Kenya has the most incidents of...
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The swine flu outbreak that has affected various schools in the country has led the ministry of health to issue a ban stopping parents and guardians visiting students...
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Even though the government has denied the information as media rumours, this is the second time that Kenya has been mentioned in issues regarding the militia and the...
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The bill presented in parliament seeks to prohibit sexual relations between people of same sex. It is also to prevent any competition with a the traditional...
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Nearly two decades after he arrived in this country, Ugandan Derreck Kayongo is still bowled over by one subtle display of American wealth: the endless array of soaps...
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Just as always is the case following torrential rains during the onset of the rainy season, diseases like water borne diseases like cholera and typhoid wreck havoc.
In...
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Nobody summed up Uganda’s “independence” from British rule better than the Kabaka of Buganda who called it a “waste”. He is quoted in the...
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ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Britain has pledged 26.9 million pounds for drought-hit Ethiopia, where some 9.6 million people are in need of emergency food aid, its embassy said...
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It is never fun going to the doctor - even when it is just an open-air clinic under a bamboo shelter. And the babies gathered here are making some noise about it.
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