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Nyege Nyege music festival in Uganda is back on – but morality police are watching

First staged in 2015, the globally touted Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda is a four-day dance party and a major tourism drawcard that caters to lovers of electronic dance music. After a three-year break due to COVID-19, the 2022 festival is taking place from 15-18 September in Uganda. Over 300…

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Uganda says paid first instalment in Congo war reparations

Uganda has paid $65 million in the first instalment of a total $325 million it was ordered to pay neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo as compensation for losses caused by wars in the 1990s when Ugandan troops occupied Congolese territory.

Reuters

Queen is history's most travelled monarch - clocking up over one million miles

In just one royal tour the Queen visited West Indies, Australasia, Australia, New Zealand, several Pacific islands, Uganda, Malta, Bermuda and a number other countries

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‘I watch people for signs’: the project finding and treating Uganda’s diabetic children

Pioneering scheme runs clinics and uses motorcycle taxi network to get insulin and supplies to those in remote areas

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Red Cross: Landslide kills 15 in remote Uganda district

The Uganda Red Cross says at least 15 people have been killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in a remote part of southwestern Uganda

The Independent UK

Heavy rains trigger landslides in Uganda, killing at least 15

At least 15 people died in western Uganda after their homes were buried in a landslide triggered by torrential rains, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, as emergency workers shovelled through mud in search of survivors.

Reuters

Bristol Sweet Mart: the shop which has become ‘as iconic as the Clifton Suspension Bridge.’

This November the Majothi family will celebrate 50 years since their exile from Uganda

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African nations urged to pile on pressure at climate summit

The former Irish President has called on African nations to pile on the pressure on rich, heavily-polluting countries to fulfill their climate pledges to the continent during a visit to Uganda

The Independent UK

Whatever happened to the teens who endured the world's longest COVID school closure?

Ugandan schools were shut for nearly 2 years due to the pandemic. High schoolers were glad to see the shutdown end early this year. But for many, school fees stand in the way of a return to class.

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Ugandan Child Is Surprised By His Name Tattooed On Sponsor’s Back

When COVID hit in March 2020, Stockmans was unable to see Solomon for over two years.

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Bride's 'nightmare' as police storm wedding and haul her off after £220 dispute

Local police in Uganda stormed the wedding party on August 20, claiming that bride Christine Natuhwere had stolen just under £220, before hauling her away and into custody

Daily Mirror

Uganda's efforts to address vitamin A deficiency miss the mark

Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness. It also increases the risk of death from common childhood illnesses such as diarrhoea. There are several ways to fight this public health threat: giving children vitamin A supplements; promoting more diverse diets; fortifying food; and bio-fortifying crops. Nutrition…

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Idi Amin's 'economic war' victimised Uganda's Africans and Asians alike

Fifty years ago – in early August 1972 – President Idi Amin summarily decreed the expulsion of Uganda’s “Asian” (that is, Indian and Pakistani) community. Over 50,000 people were given a scant three months to tie up their affairs and leave the country. There was a scramble to secure new…

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Brit dad dies after jumping in to try and save his son when he fell in River Nile

Robert Kaweesi was said to be with his wife, Justine Katantazi, and their family at a lodge near Pakwach, Uganda, when the incident happened and he jumped into the water to save his son

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Newly-wed dad dies trying to save his son from the River Nile

Robert Kaweesi, 48, disappeared after jumping into the river in Uganda

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Students cheer as online translation tools add more African languages

Ugandan IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling with material that would have been easier to grasp in his mother tongue Luganda.

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Cowadunga! Rotten eggs and manure halt crop-raiding elephants in East Africa

A foul-smelling liquid concocted from rotten eggs, cow dung and other natural ingredients is helping to save farmers’ crops from hungry elephants in Uganda and Kenya.

The Independent UK

Uganda suspends LGBT charity in ‘clear witch hunt rooted in homophobia’

Gay relationships in the country are punishable by a life sentence in prison

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Finding Home review – Idi Amin’s expulsions remembered

Fifty years on, these specially commissioned pieces movingly and unflinchingly reflect the experiences of Ugandan refugees in Britain

Daily Mirror

How Britain offered a new future to 27,000 Ugandan Asians fleeing tyrant Idi Amin

50 years on, Ugandan Asians who fled the brutality of dictator Idi Amin remember how they arrived with £55, a suitcase and the hope of a new life in the United Kingdom

Reuters

Uganda suspends operations of charity championing LGBT rights

The Ugandan government has suspended the operations of a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) that advocates for the rights of sexual minorities, accusing it of working in the East African country illegally, according to a senior official.

The Hindu

Remembering an expulsion, remaking opportunity

Though the expulsion of Ugandan Asians in the 1970s was a dark event, the ‘Commonwealth Advantage’ must be revived

Reuters

Ugandan online TV bridges information gap for the deaf

When Susan Mujawa Ananda heard a deaf man had been shot and wounded in Uganda for breaking a curfew during the pandemic his family said he knew nothing about, she resolved to set up an online television channel for deaf people.

The Independent UK

US envoy: Africa trip isn't to compete with Russia, China

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is heading to Africa, saying she is going to focus on how the United State can help Uganda, Ghana and Cape Verde deal with the food crisis that has hit the continent particularly hard — not to compete with China and Russia

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At least 24 people dead as flash flooding hits eastern Uganda

More than 5,600 displaced and 400,000 left without clean water after heavy rain causes two rivers to burst banks

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