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The Guardian - 12-Jan-2014

s Resistance Army, as the wider world discovered through the film Kony 2012. Now some of the survivors are taking the opportunity to record their horrifying experiences. Will Storr travels to Uganda to listen About two hours east of Kitgum, in the distant north of Uganda, there's a village filled with ghosts. The people of Amoko are mostly subsistence farmers and their days are usually the same. They...

The Guardian - 11-Jan-2014

s SPLA forces regain key town from rebels led by Riek Machar as UN accuses both sides of blocking aid South Sudan's army claimed to have regained Bentiu from rebel forces on Friday, wresting back control of an oil-rich region where production had been halted by fighting since early January. "It happened this afternoon at 2.30pm," (11.30 GMT), Philip Aguer, a spokesman for the Sudan People's Liberation...

The Guardian - 09-Jan-2014

s capital, on Wednesday, there was little evidence that the conflict is moving toward resolution, more than three weeks after spiralling violence broke out. Two officials in Ethiopia said the peace talks had stalled over the issue of political prisoners. The special envoy of Igad, a bloc of East African countries, has flown to Juba to speak about political detainees. A political dispute that turned...

The Guardian - 01-Jan-2014

s poorest families "We're totally different from other charities," enthuses Paul Niehaus, co-founder of GiveDirectly , a small, California-based non-profit that uses mobile money technology to transfer cash directly from donors to some of east Africa's poorest people. "We're the most stripped down, simplified model of giving help to poor people." These are big claims but GiveDirectly – which first...

The Guardian - 01-Jan-2014

s nascent civil war edged a step closer on Tuesday when the leader of a rebellion said he was ready to enter peace talks with the government. Riek Machar told the BBC that he was sending a three-person delegation to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where the government confirmed it would have also a team. "We are going there," South Sudan's foreign minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, told Reuters....

The Guardian - 29-Dec-2013

s oil is in the Albertine Graben region in the west of the country, an expanse of lush green vegetation that is home to about half of Africa's bird species. There are also baboons, antelopes and elephants. A visit to Murchison Falls, one of five national parks in the region and the biggest game reserve in Uganda, reminds one why Winston Churchill thought the nation was the pearl of Africa. But tucked...

The Guardian - 28-Dec-2013

s parent-teacher association (PTA), they wondered how long it would take for the community to raise money for repairs. Two years later, new roofs have been fitted and, while there's still some touching up left to do, school life is returning to normal. "We have all the materials, and by the beginning of the third school term, work should be complete," says Moses Eciku, chairman of the PTA. But the...

The Guardian - 28-Dec-2013

s schooling or for medicine. They feel empowered. By borrowing the money, they can deal with problems in the family," he says. But Nicholas says the demand for loans is high and the money available to lend is limited. Part of the money raised through this year's Guardian Christmas appeal will bring much needed extra capital into the community. VSLAs were introduced into Katine in 2008 as part of a...

The Guardian - 22-Dec-2013

s tough new laws target them all A year after the speaker of the Ugandan parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, promised her countryfolk laws to punish homosexuality as a Christmas present, she has delivered. But she did not just serve Ugandans the heads of homosexuals on a silver platter; for added spice, another bill that passed through parliament in Kampala last week threw in a ban on women wearing miniskirts,...

The Guardian - 21-Dec-2013

s abrupt decision to pass anti-homosexuality laws that would condemn same-sex couples to life in jail for mere touching, urging president Yoweri Museveni to veto them. The bill, rushed through by MPs on Friday, also bans the promotion of homosexuality and makes it a crime punishable by prison not to report gay people to the authorities or to conduct a marriage ceremony for same-sex couples. The law...

The Guardian - 20-Dec-2013

s parliament. Homosexuality was already illegal in Uganda under a colonial-era law that criminalised sexual acts "against the order of nature", but the Ugandan politician who wrote the new law argued that tough new legislation was needed because gay people from the west threatened to destroy Ugandan families and were allegedly "recruiting" Ugandan children into gay lifestyles. The Ugandan gay community...

The Guardian - 10-Dec-2013

s development plan, a dream that had eluded administrators for many years. The project was completed in 1956 – in just four years – at a cost of some £6m, albeit £2m over budget. The ranks of the district officers who ran Britain's colonial empire had been depleted by the second world war when Bill joined the Colonial Service, having spent seven years serving as a soldier, including the D-day landings...

The Guardian - 08-Dec-2013

s New Vision newspaper. Writing in Kenya's biggest newspaper, the Daily Nation , Rwanda's Paul Kagame also sought to make some domestic points. He praised the former South African leader as "an uncompromising enemy of injustice, an unwavering fighter for freedom, a man whose spirit and resolve were unbroken by the harshest prison conditions and deprivations of a normal life, patient and hopeful of...

The Guardian - 08-Dec-2013

s president Yoweri Museveni, still cling to office The world has stopped for a moment to focus its attention on Africa. This is not something that happens often. No, they are not talking about senseless civil wars, crippling poverty, appalling HIV/Aids statistics or blatant dictators. They are talking about a black man who freed his country from an inhumane regime; who dared to dream of a tolerant,...

The Guardian - 03-Dec-2013

t differentiate between the strain of HIV caught by people living in sub-Saharan Africa and the strains caught in Europe and America. This is a major problem because the virus itself is continent-specific. Sayed said the plight of HIV-infected patients is aggravated because pharmaceutical companies investigating ARV design are not designing subtype specific drugs – "because it is not in their financial...

The Guardian - 30-Nov-2013

s Christmas appeal to help train the Ugandan village's farmers in business and marketing and, crucially, providing access to capital How to donate to the Guardian Christmas charity appeal Simon Edangat perches on the edge of the desk inside the office at Katine's produce store, a large, whitewashed brick building that sits beside the main road that cuts through the rural sub-county in north-east Uganda....


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