Uganda Travel News Archives

Well isn't this novel: American officials are denouncing Uganda's move to possibly make homosexuality a crime that's punishable by death .

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has met Buganda district chairpersons to discuss the controversial Land Bill 2007, the regional tier system of governance and the recent riots that rocked the region for three days.

Luweero A primary school head teacher in Luweero District could lose his job amid accusations that he strip-searched five girls who were accused of stealing money from another pupil.

Vijay Patel, who owns a small chain of hotels in eastern Oregon and Washington, is buying the Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River for more than $4 million from ShoreBank Pacific, which earlier foreclosed on the picturesque property.

Kampala The US government over the weekend offered Uganda $246 million in development assistance, mainly to revive health, agriculture and trade sector activities.

Two students and a teacher from Higham Ferrers will travel to Uganda next week for an international conference.

Coming face to face with a teenage boy brandishing a high-powered rifle was not something I had pictured happening during my first visit to Uganda.

Africa's leaders meeting this week in Kampala to discuss the protection of displaced people should recognise that one of the root causes of conflict on the continent today is the denial of a right to a nationality - the right to be recognised as a person with rights and obligations in the state concerned.

By Abou Kisige THE Uganda Air Cargo Corporations, a firm owned by the defence ministry, has launched two new passenger planes.

What happens when the Kenya Airways computers go down for several consecutive hours at Entebbe airport in Uganda? You board your flight with this rather ridiculous-looking piece of paper: Posted by Shashank at 11:16 AM in Life in Africa , Reporting & Travel , Technology TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: ...

On October 9, Ugandans marked 47 years of independence. But weeks preceding the celebrations were characterised by riots in Kampala and other parts of Buganda following the central governmenta s blocking of the Kabaka from visiting Kayunga, chaos shrouding the election of a new Kyabazinga in Busoga and anxiety over oil in Bunyoro.

Kampala Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Aronda Nyakairima threw his weight behind the policea s alerts of possible terrorist attacks in the country and said yesterday that the country is a target of reprisal attacks especially because of Ugandaa s peacekeeping mission in Somalia.

President Yoweri Museveni chats with MPs during a party after the Budget speech at Kampala Serena Hotel in June - MPs increased their pay by sh7.6b this year - Total Parliament expenditure is sh122b - Average MP takes home sh14.5m a month, 4 times Uganda's per capita income - Parliament not meeting its own set targets BY LYDIA NAMUBIRU MPs ...

KAMPALA/HONG KONG: Watching his sons kick around a makeshift ball made from tightly bound plastic bags, Ugandan handyman Jackson Mawa marvels at the way business has improved since he bought a solar-powered mobile phone.

Uganda could be bracing for a fresh border dispute with DR Congo after authorities in Kampala yesterday claimed the ownership of Mpondwe Market understood to be on the lattera s terrain, Daily Monitor has learnt.

One size doesn't fit all. That's why Lydia Moss has opened A Bit More Hip . . . 14+ on 33rd Street East.

Ministers from the five member states of the East African Community have signed the Common Market Protocol paving the way for the free movement of goods, labour, services and capital.

Kampala As the arrested Rwandan genocide mastermind Idelphonse Nizeyimana faces hard times in Arusha, his Ugandan captors are demanding the Shs10 billion bounty for the job well executed.

Kampala The subject of unity will form the highlight of President Musevenia s address to the nation as Uganda celebrates 47 years of freedom from the york of British imperialism.

By Henry Mukasa THE arrest of Somalia's state minister of defence in Kampala will not affect the relations between the war torn country and Uganda, the Government has said.

Jazz fans can take delight in the fact that real jazz is coming to town tonight.

Some teens go on family vacations during summertime. Some teens work to earn money during the summer.

Ugandan authorities on Wednesday released Somalia's junior defence minister Youssuf Mohamed Siad after he was arrested by mistake overnight in the capital Kampala, the army spokesman said.

The Action in Africa Club from Aspen High School is presenting the Watoto Children's Choir from Kampala, Uganda to perform at the Aspen Chapel at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

A Rwandan former intelligence officer, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, suspected of playing a key role in the 1994 genocide, has been arrested in the Ugandan capital Kampala, sources said Tuesday.

Share + Oct 6, 2009 8:15 am US/Eastern More than 500,000 People Were Slaughtered KAMPALA, Uganda 1 of 1 Officials say a key suspect in Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been arrested.

Entebbe President Museveni finally met Kabaka Ronald Mutebi for the first time in four years yesterday and the two leaders held private discussions largely aimed at repairing strained relations between Buganda Kingdom and the central government.

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu is very proud that, in partnership with Be'chol Lashon, tap stands now bring clean water to the Abayudaya villages as part of their disease prevention program.

Kampala Africa Development Fund has approved a Shs244 billion loan to finance the road sector support project 3 in Uganda.

Uganda's president and the king of the nation's largest ethnic group have met for the first time in four years, weeks after deadly riots engulfed Kampala.

President Museveni and Buganda king Ronald Mutebi have concluded an historic meeting at State House Entebbe.