Uganda

Type: Country

Name: Uganda

population: 26,987,700

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 29 mins ago - 2 reports

Basoga Twegaite to Build Cancer Unit in Jinja

The Basoga Twegaite association in the diaspora is to fund-raise for a cancer treatment unit in Jinja.The fundraising drive will be the major focus of a convention to be held in Los Angeles California between May 23 and 27, 2013 as part of the ongoing ... [Published AllAfrica.com - 29 mins ago]

Entities: Jinja (Uganda), Cancer, Uganda

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 29 mins ago - 2 reports

Ten Children Receive Free Open Heart Surgery

Susan Nandi is full of hopes for her 3 year old girl's future. Little Immaculate Nambowa was one of ten children who received free heart surgery at Heart Institute Mulago last week in a mission that closed yesterday.But just two years ago, it looked like ... [Published AllAfrica.com - 29 mins ago]

Entities: Uganda, Compassion International, malnourished, Surgeon

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 29 mins ago - 7 reports

Police raid Ugandan newspaper office

Police in Uganda have forcibly entered the offices of a semi-independent newspaper to search for evidence against an army general who questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed him.The Daily Monitor's political editor, Henry Ochieng, ... [Published Al Jazeera - 44 mins ago]

Entities: Police Raid, Yoweri Museveni, Kampala, Alex Atuhaire, Uganda

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 31 mins ago - 3 reports

Rebels, army in fresh clashes in dr Congo

Rebels from the M23 movement and the army fought Monday just north of Goma, a regional capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo which the rebels occupied briefly last November, both sides said.The fighting was the first involving M23 since ... [Published Channel Africa - 31 mins ago]

Entities: Goma (Congo (Dem. Rep.)), Mouvement du 23-Mars, Democratic Republic of the Congo

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Uganda : Monitor Publications under Police Siege by police

20/05/2013 ... [Published Mareeg News Online - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Uganda, Police

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Uganda: New Local Govt Commissioners Sworn in

Acting Deputy Chief Justice Steven Kavuma has urged freshly appointed members of the Local Government Finance Commission to uphold the qualities the appointing authority saw in them."Your appointment is a clear manifestation of the confidence the appointing ... [Published AllAfrica.com - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Uganda, Appointed, Tom Matte, Ogen

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 reports

Yoweri Museveni

Uganda police close down Monitor

The Uganda Police have closed down The Monitor newspaper and its two sister radio stations – KFM and Dembe FM, declaring the newspaper’s premises a “scene of crime”. In 10 years, the newspaper for the second time since 2002 was surrounded by gun wielding ... [Published Daily Nation - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Uganda, Police, Judith Nabakooba, Yoweri Museveni, Corroboration

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 reports

Uganda police raid newspaper over general's letter

Ugandan police forcibly entered the premises of an independent newspaper to look for evidence against an army general who recently questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed him, ... [Published Herald-Palladium - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Uganda, Police

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 2 reports

UGANDAN PM SAYS KAMPALA READY TO PLAY ROLE TO END CONFLICT IN SUDAN'S DAFUR REGION

KAMPALA, May 20 (NNN-NEW VISION) -- Uganda can play a key role in ending the conflict in Darfur, the western region of Sudan where the Sudanese government is trying to end its conflict with armed rebel groups, says Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabaz ... [Published NAM News Network - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Amama Mbabazi, Darfur, Kampala

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 13 hours ago - 2 reports

Uganda: Tackling malnutrition in Uganda with homegrown solutions

Source: UN Children's FundCountry: Uganda A programme funded by the European Union in partnership with UNICEF is making a dent in Uganda's malnutrition statistics and changing lives with simple solutions. By Ijuka Agnes Barongo A new initiative aims ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Uganda, Nutrition, Ibanda (Uganda), Malnutrition

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

Succession: Suddenly, Uganda is up for grabs

It is the state of political limbo being created by not knowing the when, rather than the specific manner of how change will happen in Uganda when it does, that is breeding unease.SHARE THIS STORYTweetAs my Kenyan friends would say, “things are getting ... [Published East African - May 19 2013]

Entities: Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, David Tinyefuza, Succession, Kizza Besigye

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 4 reports

Politics, bribery charges swirl around Ugandan oil

Uganda, which has confirmed oil deposits of about 3.5 billion barrels, wants to extract at least 1.2 billion barrels over the next three decades. That figure could rise when more oil blocks are put up for exploration later this year, potentially making ... [Published Investors Business Daily - May 18 2013]

Entities: Bribery, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni

Quotes

...It is a story which evokes some of the suffering of Palestinian refugees, says the director Khalil Al Mazen. "The world is used to seeing Palestinian children surrounded by death, destruction and war, but this film focuses on their simple dreams" he said

Video: Palestinian demonstrators break a hole in the wall during protest commemorating the Nakba [Published Mondoweiss - 4 mins ago]

"The surgical camp started on Monday, and it will end on Sunday. Though this camp is mainly for children with heart defects, this time, we have also operated a 24-year-old woman who has had a heart defect since birth" Peter Lwabi, a doctor says

Ten Children Receive Free Open Heart Surgery [Published AllAfrica.com - 29 mins ago]

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Audio/Video

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