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In the News (Tue 10 Nov 09)

  
  UGANDA
Uganda, a small landlocked state located on the equator in East Africa, is bordered by Sudan to the north, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) to the west, Rwanda and Tanzania to the south, and Kenya to the east.
Uganda's borders and the basis of its economic system were created (1893-1926) as British rule supplanted older and much smaller political units, which remained a focus for cultural, economic, and political competition.
Uganda occupies part of a high plateau that averages 915 m (3,000 ft) in the less hilly and lower north and rises to 1,340 m (4,400 ft) near Kampala.
www.lourdes-bernadette.org /STBERN1/UGANDAL.htm   (1666 words)

  
 History of Uganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Negotiations between the Okello government and the NRA were conducted in Nairobi in the fall of 1985, with Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi seeking a cease-fire and a coalition government in Uganda.
In 1996, Uganda was a key supporter of the overthrow of Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko in the First Congo War in favor of rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila.
Between 1998 and 2003, the Ugandan army was involved in the Second Congo War in the renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo and the government continues to support rebel groups such as the Movement for the Liberation of Congo and some factions of the Rally for Congolese Democracy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Uganda   (1259 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Uganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The Republic of Uganda is a country in east central Africa.
Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile soils, regular rainfall, and sizable mineral deposits of copper and cobalt.
Since 1986, the government - with the support of foreign countries and international agencies - has acted to rehabilitate and stabilize the economy by undertaking currency reform, raising producer prices on export crops, increasing prices of petroleum products, and improving civil service wages.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Uganda   (782 words)

  
 Idi Amin File 4
Uganda Govt to Assist Idi Amin Family Vanguard (Lagos) July 22, 2003 As Idi Amin, one of Africa's most infamous dictators, languished at death's door in a Saudi Arabian hospital, the Ugandan government said Monday it would help his family travel from Kampala to visit him.
Idi Amin, whose 1971-79 reign in Uganda was one of the bloodiest in modern African history, has not been back to Uganda since he was ousted by joint forces of Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles on April 11, 1979.
Uganda's Sunday Vision newspaper scored a scoop in 1999 when it secured the first interview with the so-called "Butcher of Africa" in almost 20 years.
www.ugandamission.net /aboutug/articles/amin/amin4.html   (2835 words)

  
 Africa 13
Uganda executed twenty-eight condemned prisoners, convicted of murder or aggrevated robbery, by hanging on April 29, ending a moratorium on executions in effect since 1996.
Uganda's involvement in the conflict in neigboring conflict, and increasing concerns about corruption and the anti-democratic tendencies of the NRM, led to a noticable distancing by the United States (U.S.).
Uganda continued to receive some $300,000 in military training under the International Military Education and Training (IMET) program, although its participation in the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI) continued to be informally suspended because of its military involvement in the DRC.
www.hrw.org /wr2k/Africa-12.htm   (2715 words)

  
 Uganda (09/06)
Uganda's population is predominately rural, and its population density highest in the southern regions.
Uganda maintains an embassy in the United States at 5909 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20011 (tel.
Another rebel group operating in western Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the Rwenzori Mountains, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), emerged as a localized threat in 1996 and inflicted substantial suffering on the population in the area.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2963.htm   (3657 words)

  
 UPC ..::|::.. Uganda Peoples Congress
Since the custodian is not to recommend to the electorate a change of system in the June referendum, the outcome is a foregone conclusion which therefore confirms the referendum to be phony, fraudulent and a chicanery to deceive.
Since the provisions of Article 269 of the Constitution are to remain in force in the run-up to the referendum, it follows most clearly that there can be no viable competitor to the Movement in the referendum.
Since free and fair multiparty elections were provided in Chapter III of the 1967 Constitution and since the NRA Proclamation left the entire Chapter intact, prospects for peace and stability were not only present but also great.
www.upcparty.net /obote/masskillings.htm   (2421 words)

  
 Computers for Uganda :: A project of Computers for the World
Uganda sits just west of Kenya with part of its southern border lying at the shore of the famous Lake Victoria.
The infection rate is in the millions, which is among the highest in the world, and Uganda is doing everything possible to educate its people about the threat of the disease and prevent it from spreading further.
Since then, Uganda's people and its government have been united to rebuild the country, which had been left in extreme poverty due to the wars.
www.computersforuganda.org /hist2.html   (323 words)

  
 Untitled Document
LOCATION : In East Africa, between latitude 1 0 30 ' and 4 0 N. Uganda is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), on the north by Sudan, on the southwest by Rwanda and the south by Tanzania.
EDUCATION: Uganda's leading educational institutions are Makerere University (founded in 1922 as a technical school, as a university college in 1949, and as a university in 1970), Mbarara University of Science and Technology (founded in 1989), the Uganda Martyrs University (founded in 1991), and Uganda Polytechnic (founded in 1954).
Uganda's educational system comprises four levels: a seven-year primary education, a three- or four-year lower secondary education, a two-year upper secondary education; and post-secondary education, consisting of university, teachers' colleges, or commercial training.
www.africa.upenn.edu /NEH/uhome.htm   (1155 words)

  
 Background Notes: Uganda
Uganda's population is predominantly rural, and its density is highest in the southern regions.
The first general elections in Uganda were held in 1961, and the British government granted internal self-government to Uganda on March 1, 1962, with Benedicto Kiwanuka as the first prime minister.
Uganda is a UN member and a founding member of the Organization of African Unity.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/uganda9103.html   (2528 words)

  
 The ICRC in Uganda
The ICRC is currently present in Gulu, Pader and Kitgum districts in northern Uganda where the armed conflict has caused the internal displacement of around 1.7 million people.
Operations include the training of medical and health personnel in hospitals and health centres, the provision of medicines, surgical and medical equipment, the maintenance and rehabilitation of essential infrastructure for water supply and sanitation facilities and the distribution of essential non-food items, vegetable seeds and agricultural tools.
Pierre-André Conod, head of delegation in Uganda for two years, has just completed his mission in that country torn by an internal conflict that has attracted little media attention despite the magnitude of the humanitarian needs.
www.icrc.org /Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/uganda?OpenDocument   (674 words)

  
 Buganda Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The subsequent institutional history of the Christian churches in Uganda has also been a focus of considerable scholarly interest, with Oliver (1952) focussing on the missionary factor, Taylor (1958) and Hansen (1984) on the Anglican Church, and Gale (1959), Tourigny (1979) and Waliggo (1976) on the Catholic Church.
Anthony Low (in Low and Pratt, 1960) provides the definitive historical account of the Uganda Agreement, which was signed in 1900 by the British and the leading Baganda chiefs, setting the fundamental terms of the relationship between Buganda and the British for most of the colonial period.
The leading accounts of the circumstances of KY's emergence and the confrontation between Buganda and Uganda prior to and after independence are Welbourn (1965), Hancock (1970), Kasfir (1976), and Young (1977).
www.buganda.com /biblio.htm   (1960 words)

  
 Uganda
The children of northern Uganda are the victims of atrocious human rights violations of a severity that is difficult to imagine, and the actions of the Lord's Resistance Army violate the most basic principles both of customary international law and of human morality.
Since Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions is binding on "each Party to the conflict"--that is, it is binding on both governmental and non-governmental forces--the Lord's Resistance Army currently stands in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
Since the focus of our investigation was on the abduction of children, we were not able to look into these charges, but we asked military officials if they were aware of them.
www.hrw.org /reports97/uganda   (19583 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The author draws upon his experience as a combatant in the various internal armed conflicts in Uganda from 1979 to date.
Central to the discussion is the enforceability of the legal mechanisms in times of internal armed conflicts in Uganda, namely, the Constitutional provisions relating to preservation of public property and heritage, cultural objects, and the environment.
The paper discusses the weapons and methods of warfare that have been used and continue to be used in Uganda's internal armed conflicts, especially landmines and other indiscriminate weapons and how to deal with remnants of war such as unexploded weapons.
www.eli.org /ecw/godwar.htm   (338 words)

  
 Uganda since 1979 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But in 1979, in an attempt to consolidate support for the future, such leaders as Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Major General (later Chief of Staff) David Oyite Ojok began to enroll thousands of recruits into what were rapidly becoming their private armies.
The chief justice of Uganda, to whom complaints of election irregularities would have to be made, was replaced with a UPC member.
Uganda and Sudan have resumed diplomatic relations and exchanged Ambassadors; however, Uganda continues to accuse Sudan of supporting the LRA.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uganda_since_1979   (2893 words)

  
 Uganda - The Economy - HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
In 1967 Uganda and the neighboring countries of Kenya and Tanzania joined together to form the East African Community (EAC), hoping to create a common market and share the cost of transport and banking facilities, and Uganda registered impressive growth rates for the first eight years after independence.
Relations with Uganda's neighbors soured, the EAC disbanded in 1977, and Tanzanian troops finally led a joint effort to overthrow the unpopular Amin regime in 1979.
More specific goals were to reduce Uganda's dependence on external assistance, diversify agricultural exports, and encourage the growth of the private sector through new credit policies.
countrystudies.us /uganda/38.htm   (752 words)

  
 Buganda Development Plan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Since the last quarter of the 19th century, the Buganda Kingdom became famous and well renown for its civilisation, wealth, high living standards, education, good morals, and friendly association with the other communities.
Ever since the storming of the Kabaka's palace in 1966 and the abolition of kingdoms soon after, the national economy and the rule of law collapsed.
It is determined to work tirelessly with the Lukiiko and the Government of Uganda to create opportunities and ensure that the population in the Buganda Kingdom rapidly recovers to prosperity and attain acceptable standards of living, technical skills, civilisation, cultural and moral values even excelling their pre-1966 situation in the shortest possible time.
www.buganda.com /buga5yr.htm   (3845 words)

  
 UPC ..::|::.. Uganda Peoples Congress
UPCnet is a new front by the Uganda Peoples Congress to tell citizens of Uganda and men and women of goodwill in all countries about the plight of the people of Uganda under a dictatorship.
The real objective, in fact, is to remove the political Parties altogether from Uganda's body politic and to obliterate from the Constitution the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual and thereby enable the dictatorship to conscript, by law, every citizen as members of its Party.
The Uganda Peoples Congress is one of the major political parties in Uganda and has played a leading role in shaping the destiny of Uganda.
www.upcparty.net /upcnet/index.htm   (1381 words)

  
 The Uganda High Comission - Kenya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
President Museveni, who has been politically active since his student days at Ntare School, Mbarara, in south west Uganda, studied political science at the University of Dar es Salaam, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science.
As the peasants in his home area were nomads, their children did not go to school and modern ideas about animal husbandry, hygiene and health care did not percolate through to them.
USARF was composed of students from Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda and Museveni was elected its chairman for the whole time he was at the university.
www.ugandahighcommission.co.ke /yoweri_museveni.htm   (822 words)

  
 Uganda — Infoplease.com
Uganda, twice the size of Pennsylvania, is in East Africa.
Uganda also signed a peace accord with the Congo in Sept. 2002 and finally withdrew its remaining troops from the country in May 2003.
Uganda's 18-year-long battle against the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), an extremist rebel group based in Sudan, showed signs of abating in Aug. 2006, when the rebels agreed to declare a truce.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108066.html   (1196 words)

  
 Wider View - Third Way Cafe - Mennonite Media
uman Rights Watch reports that “In northern Uganda, thousands of children are victims of a vicious cycle of violence, caught between a brutal rebel group and the army of the Ugandan government.
Uganda has accused the Sudan government of supporting the LRA while the Sudan government has accused Uganda of supporting the Southern Sudanese rebels the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA.)
he U.S. government is one of Uganda’s largest donors and should take a leadership role in pushing for a viable solution to the Northern Uganda crisis and bring an end to the suffering.
www.thirdway.com /wv/article.asp?ID=494   (711 words)

  
 CNN.com - Amin ruled Uganda with fear, death - Jul. 21, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
His political downfall came in 1979, when Tanzanian troops and Ugandan dissidents stormed his palace in Kampala, overthrowing the government.
He has not been back to Uganda since 1979, and there is controversy over whether Amin will be allowed to return to the country to die or be buried.
If Amin dies, the government is still unlikely to allow his body to return to Uganda for burial, Kibirige said, even though a family burial site is already reserved for him in his former hometown of Arua.
edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/africa/07/21/amin.profile/index.html   (390 words)

  
 Ugandan President Travels to Sudan | ajc.com
NAIROBI, Kenya — Uganda's president traveled to southern Sudan on Saturday to bolster faltering talks between his government and rebels aimed at ending a brutal 19-year conflict in northern Uganda, the government's spokesman said.
Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir said his government was committed to ensuring peace in Uganda because the country had helped end a war between rebels in his region and the Sudanese government, the statement said.
The LRA has led a brutal insurgency against Museveni's government since the mid-1980s, leaving thousands dead and forcing 1.7 million people to flee their homes, according to relief organizations.
www.ajc.com /news/content/shared-gen/ap/Africa/Uganda_Rebels.html   (558 words)

  
 Yusuf Lule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yusuf Kironde Lule (1912 - 1985) was interim president of Uganda between 13 April and 20 June 1979.
As the leader of the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF), Lule was installed as President by neighbouring Tanzania who had toppled Idi Amin with help from the UNLF after his failed attempt to annex portions of Tanzania (see Uganda-Tanzania War).
Uganda since 1979, part of the History of Uganda series.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yusufu_Lule   (226 words)

  
 GOAL Ireland
Over 97% of the 320,000 people living in northern Uganda’s Pader District have been displaced by a 20-year brutal insurgency, and now survive in 30 camps, in one of the poorest regions in the world, with some of the worst health and development indicators.
The programme will also cater for the basic needs of households by increasing their disposable income, as well as improving the general living environment in the camps by training local leaders in the essentials of camp planning and management.
An International Rescue Committee report estimates that nearly 26,000 people in refugee camps in Northern Uganda have died in the first half of 2005 because of the conflict.
www.goal.ie /newsroom/uganda0206.shtml   (293 words)

  
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December 26, 2003, the largest prayer gathering in the history of Uganda was held.
As they prayed for the presence of God to come to their nation, a spirit of revival was birthed in Uganda.
In the early 1990s a prophetic word came through Israeli believers that said Uganda would be the breadbasket to the world in the end time harvest.
www.cbn.com /700club/guests/bios/Jackson_Senyonga_032404.asp   (823 words)

  
 Wider View - Third Way Cafe - Mennonite Media
The 2006 elections were therefore a landmark event with historical importance for Uganda’s citizens.
Museveni's inability to solve the conflict in Northern Uganda has shown the dissatisfaction of the northern Ugandans with the president.
It is with great concern and compassion that the MCC staff in Uganda ask that we pray for the people of Uganda and encourage the U.S. government to take a leadership role in resolving Uganda’s problems.
www.thirdway.com /wv/article.asp?ID=504   (652 words)

  
 Uganda on the Internet
"Born in 1979, the third child of Kenyan and Ugandan parents, Stella Mercy Atal survived a kidnapping attempt and seven years of civil war to become one of Uganda’s most promising young artists and designers." Biography, examples of her work.
Mount Elgon is a solitary extinct volcano on the border between Uganda and Kenya.
"Uganda's longest running violent conflict has thus far spanned a thirteen-year time period from 1986 to 2000 and continues to this day." "Whether in protected villages or at home, the Acholi have been powerless to stop the LRA from burning their homes, schools, and clinics." Published by the Tabula Rasa Institute, Washington, DC.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/uganda.html   (8236 words)

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