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  The New Vision Online : Besigye receives huge welcome in Rukungiri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
A HUGE crowd of jubilant Rukungiri residents welcomed FDC presidential candidate Kizza Besigye to the district on Tuesday, as he campaigned in the south-western region.
Besigye, who hails from Rukungiri, was visiting the district for the first time since he was arrested on November 14, 2005.
In many schools, mid-morning and afternoon classes were interrupted as primary and secondary school children in uniform, along with their teachers, joined the frenzy and went to the rally venues.
www.newvision.co.ug /PA/8/13/482314   (233 words)

  
 Tragedy in Uganda: the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a Post-Catholic Movement, UPDATES, March 20, 2000
Kampala - Security officials in Rukungiri have sealed off the scene of the mass suicide in Kanungu, where between 300 and 600 people are feared to have perished in an inferno at the church.
Relatives and local authorities said the leader of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments cult, self-styled Bishop Joseph Kibwetere, 68, was among the dead.
He said an excavator was being brought from Rukungiri to bury the dead in a mass grave.
www.cesnur.org /testi/uganda_007.htm   (2887 words)

  
  News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Kizza Besigye sped through his home district today in a whirlwind, dust-raising campaign tour in which he made numerous short stops to greet and thank his home crowd for their tremendous support since he returned from exile and to ask for their votes.
He then went to Bwambara Sub County where he found a huge crowd of people greeted them and told them not to vote for him as their son but as someone who is going to work for the entire country.
Rukungiri Stadium was filled to capacity but he addressed the gathering for about 8 minutes only.
www.fdcuganda.org /pages/Rukungyiri.html   (373 words)

  
 National Resistance Movement Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Chairman who was yesterday campaigning in Rukungiri district said that the act could jeopardise the political and constitutional achievements the country has registered in the last 20 years of the Movement government.
Chairman told thousands of his supporters at Rukungiri Boma grounds in Rukungiri ton that the army supports the constitution and is always ready to safeguard the constitution and not individual interests.
He said that it is only an elected President and Commander-in-Chief of the army that can use the mandate of the population to direct the armed forces to conduct business of the state such as safeguarding borders of the country and the property of citizens.
www.nrm.ug /n13.php   (840 words)

  
 RESTORATION OF FISH FARMING IN SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA: PILOT PHASE
Kabale and Rukungiri Districts lie in the southwestern corner of Uganda along the borders with Rwanda and Zaire (map, Fig.
Rukungiri (formerly North Kigezi) is generally lower (1200 metres and below) and takes in the foothills and escarpment to the east of the Zaire border and Lake Edward, extending north to the boundary of Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Rukungiri, the old North Kigezi area which hosted the original resettlement schemes, is now facing problems of population pressure and land shortages of its own.
www.fao.org /docrep/006/AD215E/AD215E01.htm   (3485 words)

  
 Rukungiri District Portal
Located 400Km away from Kampala the capital city, in South Western Uganda, Rukungiri district is home to a multiplicity of tribes the most dominant of which are the Bahororo, the Bakiga and Banyankore.
Rukungiri borders the districts of Ntungamo in the east, Kabale in the south, Bushenyi in the north, and Kanungu in the west.
rukungiri chief administrative officer Frank Ntaho has given 10 days to the accountants of Nyakishenyi, Buyanja and Bugangari sub-counties to bank money they collected from farmers to co-fund agriculture programmes.
www.rukungiri.go.ug   (327 words)

  
 africast.com - News List
The Monitor has learnt that the move could have thwarted the hopes of preventing the clash in Rukungiri town where an unconfirmed number of persons were shot dead.
But unconfirmed reports in Rukungiri town put the number of deaths at four and that three bodies were missing and could have been picked by unknown people from the streets during the temporary curfew on Saturday.
Another source from Rukungiri said that three missing bodies which were under the heavy guard.
news.africast.com /article.php?newsID=10271&strRegion=East   (471 words)

  
 Petra von den Benken, PhDThesis, FU Berlin
The overall objectives of this longitudinal study were to describe morbidity and mortality patterns of dairy calves from birth to 1 year of age and to examine calf and herd management practices as risk factors for calf morbidity and mortality.
The annual crude calf mortality rate in Rukungiri District of 8.23% is comparably low, it corresponds to a crude calf mortality of 0.34 cases per 1000 calf days at risk.
It is concluded that calf management in Rukungiri District still follows traditional, haphazard procedures, rather than accommodating needs of modern dairy herds.
www.diss.fu-berlin.de /1998/35/indexe.html   (732 words)

  
 CESNUR - Ten Commandments of God, Updates 2002
At Rukungiri Central Government Prison, the team wanted to establish how the prisoners were used in the exhumation of bodies.
Caleb Twikirize, the Officer in-Charge prison at Rukungiri, confirmed that 20 prisoners from his prison were used in the exhumation of bodies in Kanungu and 20 exhumed bodies in Buhunga.
According to the DISO of Rukungiri and the police in Bushenyi, of the 155 exhumed bodies:
www.cesnur.org /2002/uganda_rep.htm   (5165 words)

  
 The New Vision Online : Rukungiri still NRM ground — Muhwezi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Jim Muhwezi has said Rukungiri still supports the NRM government regardless of not appointing him a minister.
Muhwezi, who is also Rukungiri district movement chairperson, said the district was still the heart of the movement as it used to be.
Muhwezi was on Tuesday meeting all district NRM committee members at Rukungiri Catholic Social centre.
www.newvision.co.ug /PA/8/13/523829   (133 words)

  
 Uganda: Not A Level Playing Field - Government Violations in the Lead-Up to the Election
Some one hundred cases of election-related infractions that are alleged to have been committed by state agents or private individuals have been reported.
On 13 February Lt. Bariba Kafaka, the chief campaigner for Besigye in Rukungiri, was arrested by the PPU at a military road block.
While the PPU was officially withdrawn from Rukungiri in later January, another observer has stated that "if anything they have been reinforced" in the region.
www.hrw.org /reports/2001/uganda   (6315 words)

  
 Rukungiri travel guide - Travel reviews on Rukungiri, Uganda
Rukungiri travel guide - Travel advice by real travelers on Rukungiri, Uganda!
Currently there is no report available on Rukungiri.
Currently there are no insider tips available on Rukungiri.
www.globosapiens.net /uganda-travel/Rukungiri.html   (127 words)

  
 People in Ugandan Opposition Stronghold Fearful - VOA美国之音标准英语听力Mp3
Some 70 residents of Rukungiri, a small town nestled in the rolling green hills near the Congolese border, are gathered at a town hall meeting to discuss how to make next year's elections peaceful and democratic.
Many residents of Rukungiri are still haunted by the 2001 elections in which town resident Dr. Besigye ran against President Yoweri Museveni for the first time.
Emmy Ngabirano, a district counselor and the district registrar for the ruling National Resistance Movement, or NRM, says the clash during the 2001 campaign happened because opposition supporters threw stones at police, and that the Presidential Protection Unit was merely protecting police.
www.cnielts.com /voa/18391.html   (1023 words)

  
 The EastAfrican
Three months ago, a delegation from his Rukungiri district formed a National Task Force for the Rescue of Besigye and began campaigning for a quick resolution of the whole matter.
Rukungiri is a Museveni stronghold - where he received 99.999% of the vote in the 1996 presidential election.
So Museveni cut a deal with Besigye and the Rukungiri delegation, and the colonel was let off the hook.
www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/12112000/Opinion/Opinion20.html   (648 words)

  
 On 17 March 2000 over 500 people were burnt to death in Kanungu, Rukungiri (now Kanungu) District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
According to Emmy Twagira, the District Security Officer (DISO), Rukungiri, 59 of the victims were children while 94 were adults, majority of whom were women.
At Rukungiri Central Government Prison, the team wanted to establish how the prisoners were used in the exhumation of bodies.
Caleb Twikirize, the Officer in-Charge prison at Rukungiri, confirmed that 20 prisoners from his prison were used in the exhumation of bodies in Kanungu and 20 exhumed bodies in Buhunga.
www.dimarzio.it /srs/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=12   (3582 words)

  
 [Ugnet] Re: Dose anyone rember why Kayiira & Co were initially jailed?
Owakukiroru was jointly charged with Mr Justus Namanya, a businessman from Kyabugimbi sub-county in Bushenyi district, Mr Yahaya Amir Asega, a businessman from Koboko, Mr Idd Ahamed Yunus, a peasant from Yumbe district and Mr Abeli Kachano, an army veteran from Bushenyi.
Owakukiroru was the Chairman of Elect Besigye Taskforce for Rukungiri district during the 2001 presidential elections.
Another FDC mobiliser in Rukungiri, Mr Darius Tweyambe, who was arrested by CMI in Kampala on Tuesday, was also not brought to court.
www.mail-archive.com /ugandanet@kym.net/msg17081.html   (736 words)

  
 UPC ..::|::.. Uganda Peoples Congress
Residents of Rukungiri town presumed to be the FDC President, Dr Kizza Besigye's stronghold, were on Tuesday excited by the arrival of the Uganda Peoples Congress presidential candidate, Ms Miria Kalule Obote.
Karehako, who is also a former minister of animal husbandry in the Obote II regime, threw the gathering into laugher when he said to Miria, "You are a mother of everyone in the country but not me because you are my muko (in-law).I do not want to relinquish that title," he said.
The minister responded with the analogy of how unbecoming it was for a grown up son to leave his father's home when he marries and then comes back to stay with the father.
www.upcparty.net /memboard/home_26jan06.htm   (445 words)

  
 IIZ/DVV - Strengthening Livelihoods with Literacy - Chapter 7 Livelihood Training with Literacy Components
al., 2001) showed that the Rukungiri sample of FAL graduates scored highest in the national sample on complex comprehension and numeracy tests and that overall, respondents in Rukungiri were the most ‘modern’, particularly in respect to the adoption of improved agricultural practices.
Nonetheless, the Rukungiri women not only used the curriculum to suit their own purposes, they claim to have reaped unexpected ideas and benefits from it as well.
Unlike the Rukungiri women’s groups, Notre Dame Foundation, Saptagram, WEEL and SEIGYM, the Mahila Samakhya did not ask the animators and pump technicians to elect their own literacy instructors.
www.iiz-dvv.de /englisch/Publikationen/Weltbank/kapitel7.htm   (6125 words)

  
 Rukungiri Modern Primary School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Rukungiri Modern Primary School is where Mission Direct Volunteers are making an impact.
She helped Alice continue her education and brought her to a college in Woking, Surrey in 1979 to study cookery, cake decoration, typing and English.
John was given a poor piece of family land that was left over after the fertile land had been given to the elder brothers.
www.missiondirect.org /missiondirect/Library2.nsf/039e7b59c07eb15c80256d4f0042987f/cc4b2390d78b285f802571b200344fef?OpenDocument   (1664 words)

  
 Africanews - 60 - March 2001
Two days before Uganda's March 12 presidential election, the people of Rukungiri should have been out cheering and supporting their presidential hopeful Col. (retired) Dr. Kizza Besigye, the main contender to incumbent President Yoweri Museveni.
According to the elder, trouble started on March 2 when PPU soldiers, at the urging of Rukungiri's Resident District Commissioner (RDC)'s office, beat up and jailed Besigye officials who were putting up posters to prepare for Besigye's rally.
The Uganda Joint Christian Council - consisting of the Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox churches - has criticized the government for stationing the PPU in Rukungiri District, the area where competition between Museveni and Besigye is the most intense.
web.peacelink.it /afrinews/60_issue/p1.html   (1435 words)

  
 [Ugnet] Muntu denies rift with Besigye
RUKUNGIRI — The opposition Forum for Democratic Change launched its first district branch here yesterday afternoon at a colourful ceremony punctuated by withering criticism of President Museveni, and emphasis on party unity.
The opening of the Rukungiri branch marks the beginning of FDC’s programme of establishing party branches countrywide.
Muntu, Sabiiti, and Latigo led the FDC supporters, waving the V sign and carrying Besigye posters, in a 300-metre march from the Social Centre to Besigye Building on Republic Road in the town centre where the party office is located.
www.mail-archive.com /ugandanet@kym.net/msg18538.html   (623 words)

  
 UNICEF in action
The 1991 Population census showed that one-quarter of Uganda's total population is between the ages of 10 and 19 years.
Brief field visit to Mubende and Rukungiri to obtain a "snapshot" picture of existing programmes for ADH, what is being measured and existing gaps.
Commitment obtained from key district staff to pilot AFS in the five pilot districts of Nebbi, Rukungiri, Kabale, Mbale and Kiboga during initial consultation.
www.unicef.org /programme/hiv/focus/youth/uga.htm   (1801 words)

  
 Masscom Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
For those of you that have been to Rukungiri can live to testify about the remoteness of this place.
She had never been outside Rukungiri so to her this was an adventure of a lifetime.
She knew that few people in Rukungiri had ever had this opportunity to walk into such a magnificent building.
masscom.mak.ac.ug /online/fiction/fiction07053.htm   (855 words)

  
 Farmers Bag Sh3b
British American Tobacco Uganda (BATU) paid out sh3b to farmers in Rukungiri district in the last tobacco season.
Lawrence Lumbasyo, the area leaf finance manager for East Africa said recently, Rukungiri production rose to 2.4m kilogrammes up from about 2m kilos the previous season.
"It is encouraging that our farmers in Rukungiri, in addition to growing bananas and other crops, take time off to grow tobacco.
www.tobacco.org /news/125909.html   (121 words)

  
 uganda witness.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
In the absence of police commanders, the PPU on March 3 stormed a Besigye rally in Rukungiri town.
15 separate reports by Rukungiri residents implicated the Presidential Protection Unit or PPU (now the PGB) in gross intimidation, torture, illegal detention and electoral malpractice throughout the campaign period.
The day after their activities were reported to the police, the Regional Police Commander and the District Police Commander were ordered out of Rukungiri.
www.ugandawitness.org /component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,42/func,post/do,quote/replyto,49/catid,9   (955 words)

  
 allAfrica.com: Uganda: Rukungiri Accountants Warned (Page 1 of 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
RUKUNGIRI chief administrative officer Frank Ntaho has given 10 days to the accountants of Nyakishenyi, Buyanja and Bugangari sub-counties to bank money they collected from farmers to co-fund agriculture programmes.
He warned that failure to do so, the officers would be arrested and prosecuted.
Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.
allafrica.com /stories/200612190074.html   (207 words)

  
 The EastAfrican
Criminal Investigation Department boss, J.B. Okumu wrote to the Rukungiri Division Police Commander directing him to investigate alleged links between the Kanungu doomsday cult and the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) operating in western Uganda.
On February 5, P. Mugizi, the Rukungiri CID officer, wrote back saying: "It has been established that there are no signs of any rebel connection or ideology during their teaching so far."
As the investigations in Congo continue, Uganda is also investigating the motives of a group of 11 Spanish nationals who reportedly visited the headquarters of the doomsday cult blamed for murdering up to 1,000 followers, senior police officials said.
www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/10042000/Regional/Regional19.html   (553 words)

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