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	Link Community Development [ Africa Programmes - Uganda ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The project is a partnership with the Ministry of Education in Kampala and the Masindi District Education Office.
		Masindi Centre for the Handicapped - an outstanding residential school which is undertaking tremendous work, but which is in desperate need of financial support to maintain and develop its services.
		The Masindi district is in a largely rural area in Mid Western Uganda, 130 miles from Kampala.
	www.lcd.org.uk /africa/uganda.html (908 words)

	Masindi Hotel, Masindi, Uganda
		In the year 2000, The Masindi Hotel was privatised, and has undergone major renovations in the newer (1960's) sections, and restorations are now complete in the original Colonial style part of the Hotel.
		Masindi Town is in the Bunyoro Kingdom which used to stretch from North of the Nile to Karagwe in Tanzania and across Lake Albert into the Congo.
		The current residence of the Kabalega is in Hoima, and the Royal Tombs of Cwa II Kabalega and Sir Tito Winyi IV are at Mparo, 2 km outside of Hoima on the Hoima to Masindi road.
	traveluganda.co.ug /masindihotel (583 words)

	Republic of Uganda: Completion Evaluation of Masindi District Integrated Community Development Project
		In Masindi the opportunity should have been recognised and taken, even at its interim stage, to incorporate an extension in Masindi into the District Development Support Programme that was designed to capitalise on the Hoima-Kibaale - and indeed Masindi - experience.
		In Masindi the position of the Statistician/MandE Officer in the administrative hierarchy of the District Administration was clearly lower than those of the implementing heads of departments, who were supposed to put into practice the MandE guidelines, with the MandF Officer supervising.
		GoU and Masindi District Administration must ensure that future assistance incorporate a sound phasing out and sustainability plan that ensure that recurrent costs are ultimately borne principally through local and assured central revenue sources, supplemented by private sector inputs for a more commercialised approach to both service provision and agriculture.
	www.ifad.org /evaluation/public_html/eksyst/doc/agreement/pf/uganda.htm (1136 words)

	AEGiS-NV: Masindi secures enough condoms
		MASINDI district has secured enough condoms to avert the looming crisis caused by a countrywide shortage of acceptable condoms.
		The district health educator, William Kajura, said although the GovernmentÆs Engabu brand had been frozen and the procedure for approving new imports lengthened, Masindi would not be affected by the measures.
		He was speaking at the closure of a two-day workshop for 45 condom distributors at Softie Guest House in Masindi on Tuesday.
	www.aegis.com /news/nv/2004/NV041250.html (377 words)

	Masindi Hotel, Masindi, Uganda
		Masindi was the gateway to the 'hinterland of Africa', where goods and produce from the Northern Congo and Southern Sudan found their way to European markets.
		From Masindi, goods were trucked on to Masindi Port on Lake Kyoga where it was shipped down to Soroti and then by railway to Mombassa.
		Masindi Hotel was bought by the Government after independence, and remained a part of the Uganda Hotel chain for nearly 30 years.
	www.traveluganda.co.ug /masindihotel/index.html (583 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Postcard from Masindi
		Today only three Asian families live in Masindi - they returned and reclaimed their businesses after President Museveni came to power and invited the expellees to return and invest in Uganda.
		This is supported by the fact that in Masindi today several old mosques grace the town.
		But in spite of all this, Masindi seems to have been ignored by all the presidential candidates.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/1207343.stm (524 words)

	Ebola Spreads to Masindi District in Western Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever has spread to Masindi district in western Uganda, neighboring Gulu district in the north, Uganda Health Ministry confirmed Monday.
		"Masindi district reported four suspected cases who have died in one household, with one case was confirmed to be positive for Ebola," said a press release signed by Director General of Health Services Francis Omaswa.
		In the past two days, 11 new cases have been reported in the country with five deaths, bringing the total number of cases to 329 and the death toll to 110, according to the release.
	english.people.com.cn /english/200011/13/print20001113_55036.html (221 words)

	BBC - African School
		Mrs Mukasa, the new headmistress at Masindi Secondary State School, finds herself in dire financial straits; three quarters of the students have failed to pay their school fees and the teachers have gone without full pay for three months.
		Each year Masindi Secondary School runs Prefect Elections but this year is going to be different: a change in the rules allows girls to run for Head Prefect for the first time ever.
		Persuading people in Masindi to open up to the camera proved to be a lot easier than leaving them behind, as the African School team explain in Making The Series.
	www.open2.net /africanschool/episodes.html (839 words)

	Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever in Uganda - Travel Medicine Program - Public Health Agency of Canada
		The centre of the current outbreak is the Gulu District (population of 399,000) in northern Uganda, approximately 300 km due north of Kampala, the national capital.
		Masindi District (population 357,700) borders Gulu to the southwest and is 217 km northwest of Kampala.
		With respect to the current outbreak in Uganda, unless travellers are in the Gulu, Mbarara or Masindi Districts, and are caring for an ill individual infected with the Ebola virus, Health Canada advises that the risk of acquiring Ebola haemorrhagic fever is very low.
	www.phac-aspc.gc.ca /tmp-pmv/2001/ehf_uganda_e.html (343 words)

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		Their deaths in Masindi Port, in central Uganda, bring the total of those who have died of Ebola in Uganda since the disease broke out in mid-October to 110.
		After the Ebola outbreak was first reported, officials hoped to contain the disease to the Gulu region, 225 miles north of the capital.
		Masindi Port is on the Nile River, 99 miles south of Gulu.
	www.intelihealth.com /pcn/general/00303119.htm (376 words)

	The Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Breeders are also trying to turn a profit and putting a lot of the seed out of reach of rural communities.
		At a meeting of officials from Action Uganda with farmers and agricultural officers from largely the north, west and east, in Masindi, it was revealed that in Kumi, a sack of cassava cuttings goes for Shs 15,000 a kilogramme.
		Coincidentally, the very day that farmers and agricultural officers were in an Action Aid workshop on seed policies, a company from the United States was distributing Aloe Vera seeds free of charge.
	www.monitor.co.ug /specialincludes/agenda/rd05132.php (1766 words)

	Uganda Scouts Association - Projects - Community Service - Special Needs
		The foundations for a dedicated school and workshop facility have already been laid near the village and the group is looking forward to finding sufficient funds to complete the project.
		Masindi Centre for the Handicapped is very special school, which caters for those with physical and mental handicaps.
		The school is built in a beautiful location on a hill outside Masindi and has group of deaf Scouts and Guides who 'sign' the Scout promise.
	www.scouts.or.ug /projects-community-special.html (193 words)

	Aces Online - Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		That was the first time Masindi had been in the Home and it was to be the last time we planned to visit there.God brought us together.
		The dentist and doctor who treat Masindi are very supportive and give her free treatment and even the pharmacist gives her discounts.
		Masindi has many friends her age in the congregation.
	www.acesonline.org /News/news_301.htm (1047 words)

	UK Uganda Network - Uganda 2000 - Project in Masindi
		Masindi District is situated to the north west of Kampala on the banks of Lake Albert and across the Lake is The Congo.
		It is approximately 4 hours by car from Kampala and is one of the many very beautiful areas of Uganda having the Murchison Falls National Park to the north.
		This is the first visit of UK Scouts to Misindi to establish friendship with Masindi Scouts.
	www.ugandanetwork.org.uk /uganda2k/2kmasi.htm (160 words)

	Masindi, Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Masindi provides a welcome break to get last minute supplies, tank up with fuel if your with your own vehicle and to take a drink before proceeding.
		The Masindi Port road was raised in the swamp area and so is less likely to flood.
		The junction to the park is 4 km from Masindi town.
	traveluganda.co.ug /masindi.asp (809 words)

	WHO \| 2000 - Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Uganda - Update 34
		The cumulative figure for Masindi is at 24 cases and 14 deaths.
		While the international response to the outbreak has progressed beyond the initial acute phase there is continued need for intensive measures to control and contain the outbreak.
		The situation in Masindi requires particular attention and the Ugandan Ministry of Health has appealed for volunteers to assist in the following areas: disease surveillance and control tracing; transportation of the dead; social mobilization; infection control; clinical care of patients.
	www.who.int /csr/don/2000_12_08/en (265 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Ebola continues unabated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Health Ministry said that the disease, which has so far claimed 109 lives was brought to Masindi by a woman who had travelled from the northern Ugandan district of Gulu, which is at the centre of the outbreak.
		Dr Sam Akware, head of the national task force on Ebola, told the BBC the disease was carried to Masindi by a woman who had been admitted to a Gulu hospital with liver problems.
		The woman's daughter and a relative then fell sick, but the authorities only realised Ebola was in their midst when her husband was admitted to Masindi's principal hospital, where he died over the weekend.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1022314.stm (345 words)

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		Masindi is to be declared Ebola free tomorrow," Okware said.
		In Masindi, CFR was 16/24 or 66% in confirmed cases.
		As of 23 Jan 2001, 425 presumptive case-patients with 224 (53%) deaths attributed to EHF were recorded from 3 districts in Uganda: 393 (93%) from Gulu, 27 (6%) from Masindi, and 5 (1%) from Mbarara.
	www.szu.cz /cem/pm/ebola.txt (7772 words)

	Masindi - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Land policy and the evolving forms of land tenure in Masindi District, Uganda (CBR publications)
		Oral rehydration therapy in Uganda: A community-based survey on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of oral rehydration therapy in Masindi District, Uganda : final report
		Agricultural commercialisation, contract farming and tobacco: A study of the socio-economic effects of tobacco growing in Masindi District, Uganda (CBR publications)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /masindi.htm (115 words)

	Zoutnet DETAILS
		Avhahumi Masindi and Humbulani Nengovhela decided to put their disabilities aside to work for the development of the community.
		Humbulani Nengovhela (33) and Avhahumi Masindi (35), who could not find employment after completing their studies, established the Disabled Development Advisors which voices the problems of the disabled and finds possible solutions with relevant stakeholders.
		Masindi, who is wheelchair bound because her legs are totally deformed, explains how her joint venture with Nengovhela works: “We strive to develop a close working relationship with fellow disabled people.
	www.zoutnet.co.za /news/details.asp?StoNum=3051 (679 words)

	Uganda's Ebola cases total 400 [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A number of villagers in Ihungu near Masindi, staged a protest Wednesday against the burial of three Ebola victims in their area, saying burial of victims increased their chances of contracting the disease, for which there is no cure.
		The driver of an ambulance used to transport Ebola patients and dead bodies in Masindi died Tuesday of the disease, while a doctor and a nurse also contracted the disease, causing panic at Masindi hospital.
		Masindi and Mbarara reported no new cases, however Masindi had two more deaths, bringing its cumulative figure to 24 with 14 deaths.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a30880e7adf.htm (6043 words)

	AEGiS-NV: Masindi Gets Sh150m for HIV/Aids
		The World Bank has given Masindi sh150m to fund activities aimed at reducing HIV/AIDS prevalence in the district under the Uganda AIDS Control Project.
		The northern region project officer, Peter Cwiny-ai, said the money was for community-based projects to be implemented in a year, begining July.
		He was addressing a workshop at Kolping House Masindi, on Friday.
	www.aegis.com /news/nv/2002/NV020519.html (328 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Uganda: President receives Movement converts
		Museveni said that the current process to amend the constitution is meant to bring about harmony and proper working of the 3 arms of government in a bid to streamline the roles of all players in national leadership.
		President Museveni told the people of Masindi that he supports the regional tier arrangement for the 3 districts of Bunyoro Kingdom as long all the district councils and other stakeholders accept the arrangement.
		Kaahwa Solomon Adyeri said that Masindi district has progressed tremendously in many sectors such as health and education where 1,600 classrooms have been built since UPE was launched.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6BWC3N?OpenDocument (576 words)

	Bulletin von Medicus Mundi Schweiz Nr. 92, April 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In Masindi, in north-western Uganda, this sight is dreaded but frighteningly commonplace.
		However, in Masindi, the uncertainty is a major concern to communities as well as to programme managers striving to combat onchocerciasis.
		In Masindi, several village dwellers remain convinced that onchocerciasis causes epilepsy claiming the drug either brings on the condition or at least makes it worse.
	www.medicusmundi.ch /bulletin/bulletin9208.htm (1597 words)

	Budongo Forest Project - Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		By now my envoy to Masindi, Richard Odongtoo, had returned with news that an Italian tipper lorry belonging to the Ministry of Housing was at our immediate disposal if we could pay for fuel and repairs.
		After further negotiations a compromise was found: we would accept the deal if their mechanic 'improvised' as best he could to get the lorry moving cheaply.
		As a result I was forced into a tour of the carpentry workshops of Masindi, each of which recommended the same man. Mr Balam was a man with fifty years experience of roofing, quite the best in his trade.
	www.budongo.org /newsletter2_1.html (4943 words)

	Palin's Travels: Masindi, Uganda, Hemingway Adventure
		The town of Masindi, where we arrive mid-morning, is the administrative centre for the region and its dusty pot-holed streets are lively.
		The buildings are single-storey and some are laid out with steps and shaded arcades which bear the names of the Asian shopkeepers who built them and who were later ordered out of Uganda by Idi Amin.
		So pleased is Fredrick Magembe with the job he does that he insists I have my portrait painted so he can add it to the display board outside the shop.
	www.palinstravels.co.uk /book-2410 (337 words)

	SABCnews.com - africa/central_africa
		The disease killed four people in the western town of Mbarara and another five in the northern Masindi district.
		Among the victims was the 44-year-old man who died on Saturday in a hospital in Masindi, 200 kms northwest of Kampala, where four of the eight people infected with the virus had already died.
		The virus has since spread to the southwestern town of Mbarara, where four people have died since November 2, and in Masindi, where the first Ebola case was confirmed on November 12.
	www.sabcnews.com /africa/central_africa/0,2172,7865,00.html (311 words)

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