Summary Reports were received from 63/65 (78%), districts this week. A number of new districts started sending their reports but many still lack consistence. The districts that registered 100%...
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Uganda: Women educators use light-hearted entertainment to deliver a deadly serious message
The tiny, remote district of Kiboga in south-western Uganda has always prided itself on its homegrown healthcare. Nearly every village has its own health centre, with trained midwives, nurses, and...
Fire leaves 5,000 people without shelter in northern Uganda
KAMPALA, Dec 31, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Fire has burnt over 200 huts, leaving about 5,000 people without shelter in Aromo internally displaced persons' (IDP) camp near Lira town in northern...
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Ugandan army hunts down elusive rebel group
KAMPALA, Dec 30, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Efforts by the Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) in hunting down rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have started to pay off with an estimated...
Ugandan troops arrested over civilian killings
KAMPALA, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Uganda's army said on Thursday it had arrested two soldiers over the shooting deaths of seven protesters and wounding of 16 other people outside of a barracks near a...
Uganda Food Security Warning: No end to war in northern Uganda
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) issues periodic warnings when a food crisis is developing, where groups are now, or about to become, highly food insecure and take increasingly...
Uganda street children falling through cracks in response to war and aids
Margaret McElligott Gulu, Uganda - The small, dirty hands obsessively fold and refold a wrinkled shirt on the long conference table, as if checking to make sure it's still there, and this isn't a...
No reasons for donors to cut aid to Uganda
KAMPALA, Dec 22, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Ugandan Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi has complained that the donors do not have justifiable reasons for cutting aid to the east African country,...
Britain cuts aid to Uganda over democracy worries
By Frank Nyakairu KAMPALA, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Uganda's biggest aid donor Britain has cut 15 million pounds ($26.5 million) in aid and frozen another 5 million over the arrest of an opposition leader...
FEWS Uganda Food Security Warning Dec 2005 - Over 1.4 million at risk in northern Uganda
SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS More than 1.4 million people continue to be displaced in northern Uganda where they face serious threats to their food security and lack basic services. The United Nations...
UK cuts direct budget aid to Uganda by £15 million, withholds further £5 million
The UK is to reduce budget support to Uganda by £15 million and use the money to provide humanitarian relief in northern Uganda, Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, told...
Northern Uganda: Children paying with their lives for UN Security Council inaction
The United Nations Security Council must put the crisis in northern Uganda on its agenda and pass a resolution urging an end to the violence, international agency Oxfam demanded ahead of a top level...
Pawns of politics - Children, conflict and peace in northern Uganda
The protracted civil war in northern Uganda has ravaged the region for 19 years, at one point leaving up to 1.6 million people homeless, skyrocketing malnutrition rates among children, and costing...
Sweden to withhold budget support to Uganda
The Government has decided to withhold SEK 65 million in budget support to Uganda in light of the negative democratic development in the country. Instead, SEK 25 million of the funds allocated to...
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Uganda, Sudan to carry out joint operations against rebels
KAMPALA, Dec 17, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF), Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) have signed a protocol to carry out joint...
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Ugandan rebels kill 10 people in southern Sudan
KAMPALA, Dec 17, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels killed 10 civilians in southern Sudan on Friday afternoon, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) said on...
Rebel group kills 8 people in northern Uganda
KAMPALA, Dec 15, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Rebels of the Lord 's Resistance Army (LRA) have killed eight civilians in an ambush in the northern Ugandan district of Lira. The northern army...
Uganda: Quality health care vital for development
Lorna Crosse International Ministries based in California in the United States of America has donated medical equipment and scholastic materials worth US$100,000 to Uganda to help improve access to...
Uganda: Insecurity hampering aid efforts in the north - UN
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] KAMPALA, 14 December (IRIN) - Continued attacks by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda have made it...
Ugandan gov't launches fund for war-torn northern region
KAMPALA, Dec 13, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Ugandan government in conjunction with UN agencies have launched a 223 million US dollar inter-agency Consolidated Appeal (CAP) fund for war-torn...