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Kigali/Johannesburg,
Friday, March 22, 2013
Ntaganda — wanted by the ICC since 2006 and accused of recruiting child soldiers, organising sexual slavery and murder — walked into the US Embassy in Kigali this week and asked to be transferred to the court in The Hague.
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KAMPALA,
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Uganda’s Defence Minister says he is mediating talks between Congolese officials and representatives of M23, the rebel group that last week took control of the eastern Congolese city of Goma and t...
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Kampala,
Monday, July 30, 2012
Six more patients suspected to have Ebola have been admitted to the hospital, said a health official on Monday. This is after investigators confirmed an outbreak of the highly infectious disease in...
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KAMPALA,
July 29, 2012
The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, Ugandan health officials said on Saturday, ending weeks of speculation about the cause of a strange disease that had many...
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April 10, 2012
A first-hand account of the rescue of Indians from Uganda that, at times, reads like a gripping novel
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Kampala,
May 12, 2011
Kizza Besigye landed in Uganda one day after being prevented from flying home on a Kenya Airways flight. His vehicle was mobbed by supporters while travelling towards the capital, Kampala, where President Yoweri Museveni took the oath of office as several visiting African heads of state looked on.
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Nairobi,
May 7, 2011
Kizza Besigye spent his first full day out of the hospital on Saturday since security operatives in Uganda sprayed him with pepper spray or tear gas at close range on April 28 in the Ugandan capital.
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Kampala, Uganda,
March 30, 2011
The spokesman for Uganda’s president, Tamale Mirundi, told the AP that Col. Qadhafi would be welcome in Uganda. He said Uganda’s policy is to accept asylum seekers, especially because so many Ugandans fled the country during the long-time rule of dictator Idi Amin
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February 23, 2011
Uganda's longstanding leader, Yoweri Museveni, has won a fourth elected term, taking 68 per cent of the vote to the 26 per cent scored by his nearest challenger, Kizza Besigye of the Forum f...
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KAMPALA, Uganda,
February 18, 2011
An election observer says millions of Ugandans have begun voting in the east African nation?s presidential ballot pitting the country?s long?serving president against his former ally and personal...
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February 18, 2011
The President emerged through the sunroof with two raised thumbs and a smile of content.
He was gazing out at thousands of his supporters crammed on the football field. His image wa...
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NAIROBI,
August 30, 2010
A military spokesman in Somalia says a mortar has hit the presidential palace, killing four Ugandan peacekeepers.The mortar hit the palace during the eighth straight day of fighting in Somal...
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Mogadishu,
July 15, 2010
Mogadishu The leader of the al—Qaeda—linked Somali militant group that claimed responsibility for twin bombings in Uganda during the World Cup final is threatening further attacks.<...
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KAMPALA,
July 28, 2012
Ugandan health officials say the deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month. The officials and a World Health Organisation representative told a news conference...
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Kampala,
May 19, 2011
Kizza Besigye said on Thursday he would consult his lawyers about the legality of what he was told was "preventive arrest." Mr. Besigye said he was given the option of returning home or being taken to jail. He chose to return home.
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Nairobi,
May 11, 2011
Kizza Besigye told The Associated Press on Wednesday that an airline official had said the Ugandan government would not allow the plane to land with him aboard. However, Ugandan official Fred Opolot said the government had not interfered.
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Kampala,
April 28, 2011
An Associated Press reporter who witnessed the arrest says Kizza Besigye locked himself inside his vehicle and that police used an axe and the butts of their guns to smash open the windscreen. Police then fired tear gas into the vehicle.
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March 9, 2011
Ban on GM crops waived for scientists’ tests after bacterial disease causes annual crop losses of $500m
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KAMPALA,
February 21, 2011
Uganda's long-time president has won another term, the country's election commission said on Sunday, but the top opposition leader alleged the election was fraudulent and vowed to reject the...
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February 18, 2011
A Marxist during his student days, Yoweri Museveni fought in the war that ousted Idi Amin from power in 1979. He formed a political party to contest the 1981 elections, which were rigged by...
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November 11, 2010
The rise of the Shabab, an Islamist insurgent group, has refocussed attention on East Africa as a frontier in U.S. security interests.
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Kampala, Uganda,
August 2, 2010
Ugandan police say more than 50 people have died after a boat they were travelling in capsized on Lake Albert in Uganda.Zura Ganyana, a police spokesman, says the boat was carrying between...
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Nairobi/Kampala,
July 14, 2010
Experts from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were in Uganda on Wednesday to assist authorities in the investigation into the terrorist bombings at the weekend that killed 76 people....
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