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06/04/2012 - Report: Syria-Uganda

World parliamentary body to send fact-finding mission to Syria

The international organisation of parliamentarians, the Inter Parliamentary Union or IPU, is to send a fact-finding mission to Syria to assess the situation and take any necessary measures to help ...

06/04/2012 - Report: Myanmar - South Sudan - Uganda

IPU welcomes new members Myanmar and South Sudan

The new state of South Sudan, along with Myanmar, has been admitted into the international organization of parliamentarians - the Inter Parliamentary Union or IPU.

HIV/Aids patients sit at a counseling facility in Gulu, Uganda

05/04/2012 - Report: Uganda

Call for increased protection of homosexuals and prostitutes to stem spread of HIV/Aids

World politicians meeting in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, have agreed on the need to repeal laws discriminating against HIV/Aids which they say have contributed to an increase in the rate of ...

02/04/2012 - Report: Syria - Uganda

Arab spring dominates debate at Inter Parliamentary Union assembly in Kampala

Syria and events in the Middle East and North Africa - MENA - dominated debate at a standing committee of the Inter Parliamentary Union ...

29/03/2012 - Report: Uganda

Uganda's opposition leader Besigye awarded bail after court appearance

The Forum for Democratic Change, FDC, leader Kizza Besigye has been freed on bail after appearing in court in Kampala on Wednesday on charges relating to the killing of a police officer, John ...

29/03/2012

African press review 29 March 2012

What would our press reviews be without opinion polls? We announce them one day, in order to be able to contradict them the next.

28/03/2012

African press review 28 March 2012

Looted drugs hit Bamako's streets. So does the traffic after a short break for a coup. A drop in mining output is bad news for South Africa's economy.

28/03/2012 - International report

Uganda's boda-boda keep death on the roads

Commercial motorcyles are the fastest mode of transport in Uganda, but most of them are dangerous.

22/02/2012 - Report: Uganda

Ugandan police injure opposition leader Besigye and Kampala MP

The president of Uganda's Forum for Democratic Change, Kizza Besigye, was hospitalised Tuesday when a political rally was dispersed by police in Kampala.

11/02/2012 - Uganda

Heat and dust in Uganda as Europe shivers

As Europe suffers ice, snow and freezing temperatures, Uganda has been hit by unusually dry heat and dust, and they are both thanks to weather coming from Siberia's freezing wastes.