Posts Tagged ‘uganda’

Uganda ex-VP charged with fraud

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Uganda’s former Vice-President Gilbert Bukenya is charged with fraud over a $3.9m (£2.4m) deal to supply cars to the 2007 Commonwealth summit in Kampala.

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Uganda ‘house arrest’ for Besigye

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is prevented from leaving his house by police, as a new parliamentary session is set to open.

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Uganda ‘house arrest’ for Besigye

Uganda’s anti-gay bill ‘shelved’

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Uganda’s parliament adjourns without debating a controversial bill which includes the death penalty for some homosexual acts.

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Clashes as Uganda leader sworn in

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Uganda’s government accuses opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s supporters of attempting to disrupt President Yoweri Museveni’s swearing-in.

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Clashes as Uganda leader sworn in

Ugandans braced amid swearing in

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as president for a fourth time, as opposition leader Kizza Besigye returns after medical treatment.

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Uganda’s Besigye ‘allowed home’

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye says he has been allowed to return home ahead of President Museveni’s inauguration, after earlier being barred.

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Ugandan rejects gay death clause

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

A key backer Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill tells MPs debating it that he does not support the proposal of the death penalty for some homosexual acts.

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Ugandan rejects gay death clause

‘Out of touch’

Saturday, May 7th, 2011

What lengths will Ugandan leader go to to stay in power?

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‘Out of touch’

Ugandan gay activist wins award

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Ugandan gay activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is given the prestigious Martin Ennals award for her work in Uganda, where homosexual acts are illegal.

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Besigye vows more Uganda protests

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

Uganda’s opposition leader Kizza Besigye vows to continue peaceful protests, days after a violent arrest left him in hospital.

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Why I won’t be seeing the Book of Mormon musical

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Reviews of “The Book of Mormon” musical have been all over the entertainment media in the past few weeks. According to the reviews, the play sketches the journey of two Mormon missionaries from their sheltered life in Salt Lake City to Uganda, where their training and life experience proves wholly inadequate to the realities of a continent plagued by poverty, AIDS, genital mutilation and other horrors. While extolling the musical for its originality, most reviewers also make reference to the play’s over-the-top blasphemous and offensive language.

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Uganda politician wounded by army

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is injured as soldiers open fire to disperse protesters in the capital, Kampala.

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Uganda politician wounded by army

Ugandans to freeze Libyan assets

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Uganda will freeze Libyan assets worth $375m (£230m), mainly in the telecommunications, hotel, banking and oil sectors, the government says.

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Ugandan police accused of torture

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

A special unit of the Uganda police carries out torture, extortion and extrajudicial killings, according to a Human Rights Watch report.

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Africa leaders attack Libya raids

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

The leaders of Uganda, Zimbabwe and South Africa condemn the air strikes on Libya, saying the West is employing double-standards.

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