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The small courtroom was hot with the crush of bodies and the air was thick with anticipation. It was still early morning. Hearings were not set to begin for another [...]

Abstract Amongst Uganda's Congolese refugee population are a number of human rights defenders who actively resist the construction of refugees as dispossessed and displaced humanitarian aid recipients. Upon fleeing the [...]

On most evenings, as midnight arrives at Amuru Peripheral Health Center in rural northern Uganda, a distant roar gently disrupts the peaceful quiet of the star-studded sky. The hum of [...]

While international attention increasingly focuses on Sudan, just a few kilometres south of the country's border with Uganda the fallout from a rebel war has continued mostly unnoticed for nearly [...]

SIXTY YEARS after Allied soldiers liberated the Nazi death camps, the world stands silent in the face of another holocaust--one so horrifying that U.N. officials call it 'one of the [...]

The Uganda Program of Literacy for Transformation (UPLIFT) helps participants acquire the skills, knowledge, and incentive for a 'lifelong self-improvement plan'--coupled with an emphasis on moral education and interreligious harmony. [...]

Women all over the world are not safe. The level of threat, intimidation, coercion and fear in women's lives makes it hard to remember that security of person is a [...]

A Ugandan refugee recounts leaving his country in the 1980s, his interview with British immigration and his entrance into England. The volatile political history of Uganda, with the overthrow of corrupt regimes leading to warfare and tribal slaughter, is discussed. His stay at a detention centre called The Beehive and the differences in train travel between Uganda and Britain are discussed.

Citizens, the government and non-governmental organizations cooperated in the Masese Women's Self Help Project in Jinja, Uganda, to help women acquire land and materials for housing. A Danish aid agency helped provide the initial capital for equipment, materials and training. National legislation policies were changed to make the land affordable and available for smaller houses.

You either give me 21 cows or you don't take my daughter away,' an old man told a group gathered outside his homestead in Sironko, eastern Uganda. After a lot [...]

A writer describes her quest to learn firsthand about the crisis of maternal mortality in Uganda. The World Health Organization has estimated that more than 8,000 women die in Uganda each year from pregnancy-related causes. She explained the efforts of Women's Dignity on educating the women in communities across Uganda about safe motherhood.

Ki Kati! That's 'Hi' in Luganda, a language common where I live. I'm Aisha, and I live with my mother, sister, and brother in a town area called Kabalagala. It's [...]

The 22-year-old rebellion in northern Uganda has killed tens of thousands and laid waste to a generation. Once described by the UN undersecretary, Jan Egeland, as the 'biggest neglected humanitarian [...]

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the highest decision-making body of the 53-member club of mainly former British colonies, is held every two years and brings together Commonwealth leaders [...]

My name is Namalenge, and I'm 10 years old. I have black hair and brown eyes. I'm slim and quite short. (I think I take after my mother.) I'm very […]

On 1 February 1966, Colin M. Turnbull, while among the Ik people of Karamoja, northeast Uganda, wrote a letter to his friend and boss at New York's American Museum of [...]

The grisly contest between national and traditional authorities had been simmering for years. What next, after the November showdown between government forces and palace guards leaves scores dead? On Saturday [...]

Once much admired across Africa and the West, Uganda's tarnished president seems determined to hang on for ever YOWERI MUSEVENI may not have squirrelled away as much money as some [...]

This article describes the challenge of helping women in Uganda and other developing countries become technologically literate. The use of technology to reduce women's domestic workloads, understanding the potential market for appropriate technology, and partnerships between developed and the undeveloped world are discussed.

Breakin' out of Africa The operatic intensity of streetdancing IN A dingy, garage-sized dance studio behind the national theatre in Kampala, Uganda's capital, a dance troupe called Tabu-Flo is hard [...]

The Batwa of Uganda are a people whose existence and culture is intricately woven with the forest. Claire Foottit meets the pygmies who have been denied access to their spiritual [...]

In Uganda, tradition overpowers a United Nations drive against female genital mutilation To cry out, even to utter a sound during the ritual cutting of their genitalia would deeply embarrass [...]

The article discusses how the setting up of schools is leading Uganda to progress following a period of violence, disease and poverty as part of an effort of the community to rebuild. The experiences of several teachers and students from Uganda that have gone through the difficult times are highlighted.

Rob Gill. VIRGIN Atlantic sales manager Russell Knight has praised the generosity of colleagues for helping to replace sponsorship money for Ugandan orphans that was stolen in a burglary. Knight [...]

Byline: Gavin Hinks Goal's achieved It seems strange to be sitting in a remote part of Africa discussing audit, but that's exactly what John Shehan, compliance with Irish NGO GOAL, [...]

It will be hard to reconcile peace with justice in northern Uganda IT HAS been presented as a classic struggle of peace versus justice. Talks aimed at ending one of [...]

For them, the war is far from over The tragedy of northern Uganda could have lethal repercussions in Sudan JUST how bad do things have to get before the rest [...]

NASA surgeon is called to a new frontier Moaning, horrible enough to stand a dog's hair on end, erupts from the ward at the end of the hallway. White jacket […]

We planned to do great things. God had other plans. BEFORE LEAVING FOR AFRICA, I signed a liability release that said, 'risks include, but are not limited to, the risk [...]

Uganda now has the fastest growing economy in Africa and is enjoying political stability after 20 years of political tyranny and corruption. But its problems are far from over, says [...]

AIDS was first identified in Uganda in 1982 at a small fishing village on Lake Victoria. The local people initially believed the new disease, nicknamed 'slim', was caused by witchcraft. [...]

American Fr. Peter West, Associate Director of Priests for Life and Vice-President of Missions at Human Life International (HLI), was in Uganda in November 2012. As written in Lifesitenews (2 [...]

Naptime in rural Uganda for these twin girls means sacking out on a cow skin under a shade tree. Beneath the watchful eyes of their mother, the girls enjoy an [...]

The president of the country once scoffed at the notion. Some scientists fear it may ultimately prove counterproductive because it may persuade some men to take fewer precautions during sex. [...]

(UGANDA) Three decades ago, Uganda was in the grips of the brutal Idi Amin, infamous for kicking out Uganda's entrepreneurial Asian population and heading a dictatorship responsible for killing an [...]

Jurina Kyomugisha, a Ugandan housewife in Rugyera village of Kashaari Mbarara district spent over a week in jail in Mbarara central prison early July 2008. After she received a court [...]

UGANDA With a tenuous truce in place between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the Acholi people of northern Uganda pray for lasting peace and for hope. [...]