KAMPALA AFP — A hepatitis E epidemic in northern Uganda has killed 110 people since last October and continues to spread across the region, the health ministry said Thursday. The virus, concentrated in the Kitgum district which is home to numerous camps for civil-war displaced, has caused 6,762 infections,...
NAIROBI AFP — London-based Tullow Oil Plc on Friday announced the discovery of oil reserves in western Uganda, boosting hopes for the energy-starved east African nation. The London-based explorer said the discovery at Taitai in the Butiaba region, near the Uganda-Congo border, indicated that the area could be a...
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, Pays Tribute to Young Heroes as Part of Four-Day Recognition Events WASHINGTON -- Two Delaware students, Anna Schuck, 17, of Wilmington and Matthew Waldman, 14, of Delmar were honored in the nation's capital last night for their outstanding volunteer work during the presentation of...
APYETA AFP — Joseph Alana has returned to the village Uganda's civil war forced him to flee. The mango tree he planted years ago is one of the few things still standing and the task ahead is huge. "I'm happy to be back home. I planted this mango tree...
Uganda: Uganda's parliament is set to review the country's first National Biotechnology and Biosafety Policy, which was passed by the nation's cabinet on April 2. Along with granting cormnercialization rights to GM crops, if passed, the law could regulate medical diagnostics, industrial microbiology and biochemical engineering. However, the approval for...
RI-KWANGBA, Sudan AFP — Uganda's top rebel leader Joseph Kony has requested further consultations before signing a peace agreement to end one of Africa's longest conflicts, the chief mediator said Thursday. Speaking from the venue near the south Sudanese jungle town of Ri-Kwangba, where Kony was initially scheduled to...
RI-KWANGBA, Sudan AFP — Uganda's top rebel leader Joseph Kony was expected to sign an historic peace deal on Thursday to end one of Africa's longest and most brutal civil conflicts. The Lord's Resistance Army LRA chief was due in the southern Sudan jungle town of Ri-Kwangba to initial...
Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and false assumptions. Referring to the hyperepidemics of Africa, an article in The Lancet this fall named "ten myths" that impede prevention efforts-including "Poverty and discrimination are the problem," "Condoms...
Despite Kenya's political turmoil our survey of the top 50 companies in the sub-region for 2008 shows the East African heavyweight still firmly on top of the regional rankings. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] East African Breweries has overtaken Barclays Bank Kenya at the top of the tree by a wide...
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2008 AFP — US President George W. Bush has freed up to 4.9 million dollars in emergency refugee aid for Kenya and Uganda in response to the political crisis in Nairobi, the White House said Monday. "The president authorized the State Department to use up to...
KAMPALA AFP — Uganda said on Wednesday that the country was free of the Ebola virus, which has killed 37 people since September when the virulent strain first appeared in the impoverished east African nation. Health Minister Stephen Mallinga said it was the 42nd day since the last patient...
Wilmington and Delmar students earn $1,000 awards, engraved medallions and trip to nation's capital Honors also bestowed on other top youth volunteers in Delaware U.S. Senators John Kerry and Chuck Hagel to co-chair judging panel that will pick 10 National Honorees in May DOVER, Del. -- Anna...
GULU, Uganda AFP — Two eggs, a large stick and an alcohol-filled gourd are what some believe it will take to heal the rift between the rebel Lord's Resistance Army and thousands of their victims in northern Uganda. Along with two lambs, the items are the ingredients for a...
NAIROBI AFP — Kenya's opposition on Wednesday called off mass rallies scheduled for the next day to protest disputed presidential polls, at the request of former UN chief Kofi Annan, in Kenya to mediate the crisis. Police had banned the rallies due to follow three days of opposition protests...
NAIROBI AFP — Nine people were hacked or burned to death in new violence linked to Kenya's political crisis on Tuesday, as former UN secretary general Kofi Annan arrived to revive mediation efforts. As the African Union and the United Nations condemned rights violations, police fired tear gas at...
NAIROBI AFP — Eight people were hacked or burned to death in new tribal violence linked to Kenya's political crisis on Tuesday, as former UN secretary general Kofi Annan arrived to revive moribund mediation efforts. The African Union and United Nations condemned rights violations in Kenya as police fired...
The World Investment Report 2007 Transnational Corporations, Extractive Industries and Development, produced by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Unctad, revealed that foreign direct investment FDI into Africa doubled between 2004 and 2006 to $36bn. The growing interest of foreign companies in African markets is to be welcomed...
KAMPALA AFP — Isolation wards for Ebola patients in western Uganda are now empty, a senior health official said Thursday, voicing hope that the killer fever was finally receding. Sam Okware, who heads the national task force on the outbreak, said a patient admitted on December 22 was the...
KAMPALA AFP — Uganda on Tuesday offered to treat Ebola patients from the neighbouring eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a suspected case was detected there. "A patient fitting in the classical clinical definition of Ebola has been identified across the border in the DRC," Primary Healthcare Minister Emmanuel...
NAIROBI AFP — Former Mozambique president Joaquim Chissano has arrived in Uganda for a series of talks to breathe life into a fitful process aimed at ending war in the country, a UN statement said Thursday. Chissano, UN special envoy for northern Uganda's conflict, arrived on Wednesday and is...
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