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UGANDA: Officials hope emergen...
UGANDA: Officials hope emergency will be avoided as rains subside
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Heavy rains have displaced thousands and damaged crops in eastern and northern Uganda, but officials are optimistic an emergency will be avoided as...
Ugandan government must establ...
Ugandan government must establish reparations programme for war victims
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
During northern Uganda's 20-year conflict between the Government of Uganda's (GoU) armed forces and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), widespread...
UGANDA: Charles Opira:
UGANDA: Charles Opira: "After eight years as a child soldier, all I want is to forget the past"
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Charles Opira was 10 years old when the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) abducted him as he walked to school in Gulu, northern Uganda, in 2000. He...
UGANDA: Fuel shortage hits aid...
UGANDA: Fuel shortage hits aid work in north
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Aid workers in northern Uganda could scale down operations if a fuel shortage persists, officials told IRIN. "Our operations for the past two weeks...
UGANDA: Drought, hunger drive ...
UGANDA: Drought, hunger drive Karamoja children to beg in Kampala
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Agatha Locham, 23, sits with her two weak and malnourished children a few steps from the entrance to a bank in Kampala. “Mpayo ekikumi [give me a...
DRC-UGANDA: Facilities overwhe...
DRC-UGANDA: Facilities overwhelmed as refugees stream to border
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Food, water, health and sanitation facilities at several villages on the Uganda-Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border are overstretched as...
UGANDA: Displaced first by war...
UGANDA: Displaced first by war, now by elephants
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Marauding elephants in northern Uganda have added to the challenges faced by civilians trying to rebuild their lives in the wake of 20 years of civil...
UGANDA: Children eke out a liv...
UGANDA: Children eke out a living on the streets
Saturday, October 11, 2008
John Kibwola, 14, braves the scorching afternoon sun as he sells his collection of plastic bottles along Acholi Street in the northern Ugandan town...
AFRICA: Call to ban cluster bo...
AFRICA: Call to ban cluster bombs
Monday, September 29, 2008
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called cluster munitions "an abomination whose manufacture and use should not be tolerated by any government", amid...
UGANDA: Poor hygiene fuelling ...
UGANDA: Poor hygiene fuelling Hepatitis in north
Friday, August 8, 2008
Bad hygiene and lack of adequate sanitation facilities in northern Uganda, a region still recovering from two decades of conflict, have fuelled the...
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