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Uganda: Furniture Makers Seek Loans
The highway to Nsambya, a Kampala surbub is famed for its road side furniture outlets but makers of rustic furniture say lack of capital has hampered the growth of their business.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 11:39

Uganda: We Could Still Do Much Better
Thursday was Independence Day. And, as always, it was time to take stock of where the country stands 46 years on. President Museveni spoke of the lost years under Obote and Amin. And then the recovery under his leadership starting in 1986. That was self-serving but not entirely incorrect.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 11:39

Uganda: The Game of Football is Bigger Than Cranes
The world's most famous sport has not been very friendly to the people of Uganda despite endless claims that we love the game of football.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 11:39

Uganda: Cholera Fight in Kampala Makes Positive Leaps
Unlike in the past, communities affected by the latest cholera outbreak in Kampala are now responding fast to public health guidelines aimed at containing the infection.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 11:39

Uganda: Fatah to Handle Crunch Benin Tie Handle
World football governing body Fifa have appointed Egyptian referee Essam Abd El Fatah to officiate the crucial 2010 World Cup/African Nations Cup qualifier between Uganda Cranes and Benin.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 11:39

Uganda: Why We Must Support Cranes Tomorrow
There are things that cannot be changed, regardless of whether you are Barack Obama or the beggar at the T-junction between Entebbe and Kampala road.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 11:39

Uganda: Independence - Country Divided At Heart
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Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 11:39

Uganda: It's Been a Decade of Promoting Rights, Says UHRC's Sekaggya
The Uganda Human Rights Commission on October 3 commemorated "a Decade of Human Rights Work; Making Human Rights a Reality for All" at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel's Rwenzori Ballroom. Saturday Monitor's Solomon Muyita caught up with the rights body's Chairperson, Ms Margaret Sekaggya, and below, she talks about how she has managed the institution:-
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 11:39

Uganda: Cranes - Worry Only About Benin Game, Result
There was a time when thousands would await the national team's return and jubilantly escort the motorcade all the way to a State dinner, yet on Wednesday evening a policeman wouldn't let their bus through an access road back to their hotel.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 11:39

Uganda: Future is Uncertain for Local Soccer
Despite possessing vast skills, the likes of Ibrahim Sekagya, David Obua, Nestroy Kizito and Eugene Sseppuuya, to mention but a few, may call time on their careers without playing in the much-cherished Africa Cup of Nations.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 11:39

Uganda: Guidelines for New Busoga Kyabazinga Election Released
Busoga Kingdom has issued strict draft guidelines for the October 31 election of the new Kyabazinga of Busoga. Saturday Monitor has learnt that the guidelines have been designed to automatically eliminate fake or multiple candidacy from one chiefdom.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 11:35

East Africa: Stand Up for EAC Common Market
With a kind of hide and seek that is beginning to be the hallmark of the common market talks, there is a likelihood that the dream of reaping from a large economic market of over 90 million people, may fail.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 10:34

Uganda: Don't Close Schools On Teachers' Day
ON Monday many primary schools countrywide were closed. Reason? It was World Teachers' Day and they needed a day off to attend the celebrations. In practice, however, most teachers used this as a day off to catch up on other issues.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 10:14

Uganda: Is Your Child Taking This Drug?
A highly addictive, intoxicating drug is being openly sold in Ugandan shops and supermarkets.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 10:14

Uganda: Religious Sect Stores Dead Bodies
A RELIGIOUS sect that preserves dead bodies is seeking to build a multi-million dollar autonomous city in Rakai district.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 08:44

Ethiopia: Over Six Million in Need of Emergency Food Aid
The United Nations' humanitarian arm has warned that food insecurity is worsening in Ethiopia, with over six million people now in need of emergency aid to stay alive.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 08:43

Ugandan Rebels Committing Grave Rights Abuses
Since mid-September, the notorious Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), has killed over 200 people, including 159 children, according to a new United Nations report.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 08:36

Kenya: Country Ranked As Emerging Economy By IMF
Kenya is now among a select group of countries - including Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Uganda - to be rated as emerging markets by the IMF.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 20:57

Kenya: Cash for Chiefs And DOS a Good Move
For the first time in a long while, the Government has directed its attention to the long-suffering provincial administrators.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 20:54

Kenya: Tame Errant Churches
It is official: the Government receives an average of two new applications daily from people seeking to register churches.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 20:54

Kenya: As Obama Pulls Ahead, America-Lovers Can Hardly Wait
When my oldest son was a little boy, he'd always cause a ruckus at the local restaurant.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 20:54

Pirates release Filipino seamen
Somali pirates have reportedly freed 20 Filipino seamen from a hijacked ship they held for more than 80 days.
Source : Iol | 10-Oct-2008 19:07

Sudan: Muhajeriya, Darfur, Under Imminent Threat of Militia Attack
The Aegis Trust has received credible eyewitness reports that Janjaweed militia from the Maalia and Rizeigat tribes, estimated to be 300-strong, travelling in jeeps and armed with kalashnikovs, are massing outside the Darfur town of Muhajeriya.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 17:16

UGANDA: New centre to boost paediatric HIV care
KAMPALA Friday, October 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Children living with HIV in Uganda have been given greater access to treatment with a new paediatric HIV care centre opened at the main referral hospital in the capital, Kampala.
Source : irinnews.org | 10-Oct-2008 17:09

Somalia: Pirates Deny Negotiating Ransom for Ship
Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks denied that there were talks with the company that belongs to the ship following media reports said that the two sides agreed $8mln for the release of the ship.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 15:49

Somalia: Witness Says AU Peacekeepers Shot Street Child Dead
African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops and particularly Ugandan troops who are based at the KM4 junction in Mogadishu shot dead a street child after they opened fire at him as they were passing by on Thursday night ccording to eyewitnesses.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 15:49

East Africa: Reduce Fishing in Lake Victoria to Avert Crisis, Say Experts
Experts have called for a 40 per cent reduction in fishing activities in Lake Victoria to counter the rapid dwindling of Nile perch stocks in the world 's second largest lake.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 15:37

Kenya: Government Launches Anti-Malaria Campaign
Kenya's Ministry of Health has launched a four-day nationwide campaign to retreat at least 1.8 million bed nets with long-lasting insecticide to control the spread of malaria as the rainy season sets in, a senior health official said.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 15:22

Uganda: Children Eke Out a Living on the Streets
John Kibwola, 14, braves the scorching afternoon sun as he sells his collection of plastic bottles along Acholi Street in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 15:22

East Africa: EAC Common Market Talks in Yet Another Twist
The East African Community (EAC) Common Market negotiators have failed to agree on unresolved issues from last months' third round talks in Bujumbura, Burundi.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 13:51

Kenya: African Problems Require African Solution - Odinga
The peculiar circumstances of the African continent that has put it at the lowest rung of developmental ladder despite its enormous human and material resources, again, came into focus on Thursday.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 13:35

Ethiopia: Millions More Going Hungry As Aid Effort Stalls - Oxfam Agency Calls for Rich Countries to Redouble Aid Effort
The number of Ethiopians needing emergency assistance has leapt by 40 percent from 4.6 million to 6.4 million people since June, Oxfam said citing latest official figures from the United Nations and the Ethiopian government.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 13:10

Scores missing in Gulf of Aden
About 100 people have been reported missing in the Gulf of Aden after being forced overboard by smugglers.
Source : Iol | 10-Oct-2008 13:10

Namibia: Tanzanian Premier Tours Walvis Bay
Tanzanian Prime Minister Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda, who has been on a weeklong visit to Namibia, was in Walvis Bay on Wednesday where he showed interest in the way Namibia governs its marine resources especially the pertinent problem of illegal fishing.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 12:58

Ethiopians 'need emergency aid'
The number of Ethiopians in need of emergency assistance has reportedly leapt by 40 percent.
Source : Iol | 10-Oct-2008 12:55

TRADE-EAST AFRICA: Going Bananas to Fight Poverty and Hunger
MOMBASA, Oct 10 (IPS) - Arguably one of the world?s most popular fruits, bananas are poorly marketed as a value-added commercial crop in Africa. But that is about to change as a plan is being conceptualised to transform the way Africa produces and sells bananas.
Source : IspNews.net | 10-Oct-2008 12:45

'Mugabe dragged Africa into the mud'
Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga has blasted African leaders' fear of criticising each other.
Source : Iol | 10-Oct-2008 12:40

AFRICA: ?Sexually-transmitted grades? kills quality education
DAKAR Friday, October 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Sexual exploitation in African schools has become so widespread that children have come up with their own terms to refer to sexual relations with their teachers. From ?Sexually Transmitted Grades? to ?BF?, or bordel fatigue, which refers to exhaustion from multiple sexual activities with teachers, this slang hints at the prevalence of exploitation in Africa?s learning environments.
Source : irinnews.org | 10-Oct-2008 12:39

Obamamania hits a high note
A folk group has composed a song about Barack Obama, hoping that their ode to Kenya's new favourite son will match the US political star's meteoric rise.
Source : Iol | 10-Oct-2008 12:25

Tanzania: Cut Finishing in Lake Victoria By 40 Percent - FAO
Experts have called for a 40 per cent reduction in fishing activities in Lake Victoria as a measure to counter the rapid dwindling of Nile perch stocks in the world's second largest lake.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 12:17

Firm On Bonds
Tanzania is still determined to float sovereign bonds despite the on-going financial turmoil.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 12:16

Pirates strike again
Pirates have hijacked a Somali merchant vessel in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Oman, an official has said.
Source : Iol | 10-Oct-2008 12:10

Africa: Continent Has No Reason to Be Poor, Says Odinga
Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Amolo Odinga, yesterday identified mediocrity, bad governance, lack of respect for the rule of law, injustice and inequality as some of the factors responsible for the underdevelopment of Nigeria and African countries alike.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 12:06

Women Arrested in Juba for Exposing Their Bodies
Four Ugandan women are among people arrested in Juba, South Sudan for alleged indecent dressing.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 11:23

Probe MPs - You Have Shamed Parliament
Scandal begets scandal. That's the summary description of the Tuesday meeting between Security Minister Mbabazi and the NRM members on the parliamentary committee investigating him over the NSSF Temangalo land saga.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 11:23

Uganda: Terror Alert - Police Increase Surveillance
Barely a week after the announcement of a terror threat on Uganda, security has stepped up operations throughout the country to prevent any attack.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 11:22