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OZY
April 1, 2018
In June of last year, when Kyagulanyi unexpectedly won a seat in Uganda's Parliament, the anti-establishment pop star instantly became a political hero to his fans, and a target for the ... His grandfather fought during Uganda's civil war and his father was a political activist who often spent time in jail.
The Guardian
March 30, 2018
He fled Congo aged 10 with his father during the second Congo war in 2000, and came to Kampala four years ago. Originally a singer, he learned to use production software six months ago and is pursuing a childhood dream to produce a new sound he calls “Congo techno” – an amalgam of soukous andÃâà...
thejournal.ie
March 26, 2018
In the Acholi region of Northern Uganda, where Neko lives, 85% of land is 'customary land' – inheritance follows a traditional set of rules and practices. Uganda map 2 Much of Northern Uganda like the towns of Lira and Gulu, as well as villages near them, were heavily impacted by the civil war. Source:Ãâà...
Haaretz
March 25, 2018
... 40 of the children were back in South Sudan during the school break, civil war broke out. The situation in Juba, the capital city, and throughout the country went from difficult to untenable. Now, says Miller-Forshtat, “We no longer transport children from Uganda to South Sudan, only in the other direction.”.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
March 24, 2018
“This is the first time I've fled DRC”, explains 53 year-old Imani who lived through the war in Ituri, in DRC, in the 2000s. “It's different this time. In the 2000s our homes were torched too, but we were able to go back to our villages. Now people are being hunted down and killed. The attackers chase us withÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
March 14, 2018
March 13, 2018 (MOYO/JUBA) - The Uganda army (UPDF) has heavily deployed along its border with South Sudan and intensified surveillance, a day after a ... vice president, Riek Machar declined the approach, insisting the High-level Revitalization forum was the best chance to end the ongoing civil war.
New Vision
March 14, 2018
With Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) chased out of Uganda and Dominic Ongwen, one of his top honchos, being prosecuted at The Hague over war crimes, peace is back. Northern Uganda is thriving. And poverty there, according to statistics from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS),Ãâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 12, 2018
Unlike Kayihura, who is a decorated war army general and member of Museveni's trusted inner circle who was parachuted into the police force in 2005, Okoth-Ochola is a career cop with 30 years on the force and rising through the ranks since joining as a non-commissioned officer in 1988. Although heÃâà...
The Observer
March 10, 2018
The movie titled 27 guns and due to be released in two months is about Kainembabazi's father, President Museveni and the bush war that brought him to power in 1986. ... He added that the production company has sought relevant permission from the Uganda police and the Kampala Capital City Authority.
Uganda Radio Network
March 10, 2018
Dr. Sabastaino Rwengao, he heads a team of researchers addressing mechanisms for Resolving both Intra-State and Inter-State Conflicts Arising From Oil and Gas Developments in the Albertine Rift Valley. Login to license this image from 1$. In short. Dr. Rwengabo, an expert in conflict processes,Ãâà...
IRINnews.org
March 8, 2018
As Congolese fleeing attacks in the northeastern Ituri province continue to stream into neighbouring Uganda, an outbreak of cholera with a worryingly high mortality rate is hampering efforts to respond to the ... Uganda hosts some 1.4 million refugees, about a third of whom fled the civil war in South Sudan.
America Magazine
March 8, 2018
... histories of four African nations from widely separated corners of the continent: Uganda, Nigeria, Mauritania and Somalia. Conscious of the alliances among many terrorist groups like Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda and Boko Haram, she has traveled widely on the continent, concentrating on the wars' effects uponÃâà...
Webster Journal
March 8, 2018
Ladege was born in the capital of Sudan, Juba, on Jan. 1, 1990. He and his family settled in a refugee camp in Uganda within the same year. He immigrated to the United States in 1999 with his brother, sister and grandparents in October 1999 when he was nine years old. His father had died in theÃâà...
FOX31 Denver
March 6, 2018
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A chance an encounter between a student at Colorado State University and a campus janitor lead to the creation of a brand new school house in war torn Uganda. It started 3 years when Laura Schreck ran into Robert Serunjogi while waiting for a ride. She struck up a conversationÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 5, 2018
While supporting himself and his family as a school teacher, IGG founded Ramon Film Productions (the name is derived from his grandmothers, Rachel and Monica, who raised him and saw the family safely thru Uganda's civil war). Based in the small home he shares with his wife and co-editor, Harriet, andÃâà...
UNHCR
February 27, 2018
Kenyi, 17, and his younger brothers and sisters are among more than 5,000 unaccompanied South Sudanese refugee children who have fled their country's civil war and arrived in Uganda without parents. In July, they left their village with their uncle and walked for seven terrifying days until they reachedÃâà...
IRINnews.org
February 27, 2018
A study the year the war ended found that northern Uganda had the highest rate of post-traumatic stress (54 percent) and depression (67 percent) ever recorded among displaced and conflict-affected populations anywhere in the world. It found that women were twice as likely to show symptoms of PTSDÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
February 26, 2018
Kampala — Legal representatives of more than 2,300 victims of the 20-year insurgency in Acholi sub-region have disowned the Acholi War Debt Claimants Association, calling it a 'ghost group". This comes after the association led by Mr Noah Opwonya petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Ms RebeccaÃâà...
Independent Online
February 14, 2018
The UNHCR has reported that over 22 000 people have fled from DRC to neighbouring Uganda as ethnic violence in the north-east of Congo surges. Picture: MSF/Supplied ... During the last civil war in the DRC similar clashes killed thousands off Hema and Lendu before the war ended in 2003. MillionsÃâà...
San Francisco Bay View
February 11, 2018
Helen Epstein's new book, “Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror,” is dense with detailed and fascinating accounts of events in Ugandan history and politics and those of neighboring nations. I'm familiar with much of it, but there's also much I hadn't known, some I disagree with, andÃâà...
New Vision
December 31, 1999
The government is to conduct a study to determine the number of children born of sexual violence in northern Uganda, a senior official has disclosed. Margaret Ajok, the national advisor of transitional justice at the Justice Law and Order Sector (JLOS), regretted that there was stigma against children born ofÃâà...
Big Think
December 31, 1999
Agnes Igoye works as Uganda's Deputy National Coordinator for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons. She also initiated the Huts for Peace program with the Clinton Global Initiative. Here, Igoye tells us about the start of the idea: visiting a community in Uganda where 15 women had become homelessÃâà...
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