Northern Region (Uganda)

Kenya: Court Grants Re-Verification to Sugar Firm

Nairobi — The process of re-verifying 25 containers of sugar which has been detained at the port of Mombasa for the last two years has begun. Mumias Sugar was granted the order to scrutinize the contents following reports that...

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Ugandan boy's farming life

Denis Opoka walks on a road at Ajulu village, in Gulu district, northern Uganda, on Nov. 20, 2009. It is a normal day for 14-year-old Opoka, plowing land, cleaning house and fetching water. He acts like parents and takes care...

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Uganda: UTL Donates to Gulu School for Blind

Kampala — Uganda Telecom last week donated food and scholastic materials to Gulu Primary School for the Blind worth Shs 8 million. The donation was made during the Big Blue Customers Re-union festival. Utl's Communications...

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Nigeria: Experts Decry Low Girl Education in Nation

Kampala — A panel of discussants from Nigeria on education and family planning has expressed worries over the gender gap in the ratio of girls to boys in schools especially in the Northern part of the country. Speaking at the...

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Uganda: Byaruhanga is Right On the North But...

opinion MOSES Byaruhanga's article "Northern Uganda has embraced the Movement" that appeared in The New Vision on November 16, deserves critical observation. His analysis of the political dynamics in northern Uganda was...

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Uganda: State of UPDF Barracks

Kampala — Shs 500bn spent on army per year but soldiers live in huts, lack toilets, dead bodies kept in patients wards President and commander-in-chief of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), Gen. Yoweri Museveni, has...

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Uganda: Mutebi Lets Art Talk to Gulu

Kampala — Ravaged by war for over two decades, the northern region of Uganda has arguably the highest NGO per capita in Uganda and, I could bet an arm and leg, in the whole of Africa. Among the crowd of signposts is the one...

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Uganda: Nine LRA Fighters Surrender

Nine former fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army who recently escaped from captivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have returned to Gulu, northern Uganda. The nine young men, aged between 15 and 29 were abducted years...

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Uganda: Gulu-Atiak Road to Be Upgraded

THE Gulu-Atiak road is to be upgraded to paved bitumen standard, Dan Alinange, the spokesman of the Uganda National Roads Authority, has said. Currently, the 74km-road located in Gulu and Amuru districts in northern Uganda, is...

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Kazini Suspect in Police Custody

Herbert Ssempogo and Steven Candia Kampala — A TEENAGER held in connection with Maj. Gen. James Kazini's murder last week is a state witness and under Police protection. Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba yesterday said the...

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