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Ugandan NEWS & ARTICLES

UGANDA: Minister's turnaround on HIV bill raises concern

KAMPALA, 11 May 2010 (PlusNews) - Ugandan AIDS activists have expressed concern over a decision by the Ministry of Health to back an HIV/AIDS bill that would criminalize the deliberate transmission of HIV.

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Museveni gets Turkish doctorate

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has been awarded a second honourary doctorate by Faith University of Turkey. The degree is in recognition for his contribution to the development of political and commercial relations between Turkey and Uganda.
This would have been Museveni’s third honourary degree.

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SOMALIA-UGANDA: EU helps boost Somali government’s military strength

KAMPALA, 5 May 2010 (IRIN) - Military trainers from the European Union (EU) in Uganda this week began instructing 2,000 soldiers from Somalia as part of the EU’s efforts to strengthen the transitional federal government’s (TFG) ability to tackle Islamist insurgents.

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Uganda: Govt to buy locally-made machinery

THE Government is to buy food processing and farm equipment from local artisans for distribution to farmers, President Yoweri Museveni has said.

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Iran's Ahmadinejad heads to Zimbabwe, Uganda

TEHRAN (AFP) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Thursday for a two-day visit to Zimbabwe and to UN Security Council member Uganda, with whom he will discuss Iran's nuclear programme, state television reported.

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Uganda: HIV positive priest arrested on defilement

A senior Catholic priest based in Pakwach town in Nebbi district has been arrested by the Police on allegations of defiling a 14-year-old girl, who served in the church.

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Museveni outlines 5-year master-plan

"I have directed the Ministry of Public Service to tie contracts of public servants to outputs, in addition giving incentives to reward hard working civil servants especially scientists," Museveni said.

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Ugandan king turns 18, takes full control

One of Uganda's last remaining kings turned 18 in a boisterous four-day ceremony that ended Sunday and allowed him to take full control of his kingdom in the western part of the country.

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Uganda: tombs to be reconstructed

An expert group has concluded that it is "feasible" to reconstruct the Tombs of Buganda Kings, Uganda's only World Heritage List site, lost to fire last month. The Ugandan government has secured UNESCO assistance for the works.

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Museveni reacts to Besigye attack

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has warned politicians against telling lies, saying this would cause them problems.Citing the case of the FDC president, Museveni said Kizza Besigye was attacked by people in Mpigi district because he was telling lies.

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Uganda: Govt unveils national identity card

THE German firm, Mühlbauer Technology Group, yesterday unveiled the new national identity card at Hotel Africana in Kampala.

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LRA rebel pins Sudan on support

THE Sudan government is in touch with the Lord's Resistance Army command and has given the rebels fresh supplies of food and medicines, a captured commander has said.

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Uganda gov't says it will compensate rebel victims

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - More than 5,000 people whose lips and ears were cut off by rebels who have waged a more than 20-year insurgency in northern Uganda will receive compensation from the government, a presidential adviser said Thursday.

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Recent Clashes Expose Political Dispute in Uganda

Tension between the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and the country's largest ethnic group, the Buganda, is rising in the aftermath of a fire that destroyed the tombs of former kings of Buganda earlier this month.

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Uganda: Man confesses to burning Kasubi

A MAN yesterday walked to a Kampala Police station and allegedly confessed setting ablaze the Kasubi Tombs, a renowned world heritage site.

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East Africa oil boom centers on Uganda

KAMPALA, Uganda, March 26 (UPI) -- The scramble for East Africa's oil wealth is intensifying, with China's CNOOC outbidding India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp. for exploration rights in the Lake Albert Basin, the epicenter of the emerging new oil zone.

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Ugandan army to verify rebel massacre reports in DR Congo: spokesperson

KAMPALA, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The Ugandan army said Sunday that it has sent teams in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) to verify reports that the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), killed at least 321 civilians in late 2009.

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New report unearths tale of tragic LRA atrocities in DRC, Sudan

March 29, 2010 (JUBA) — The rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a quasi-revolutionary movement with vague political ideas, killed at least 321 civilians and abducted 250 others (including at least 80 children) during a previously unreported four-day rampage in the Makombo area of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in December 2009, Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday.

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