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Uganda government names diaspora rebel collaborators - many reported living in the U.S.

The following article is from The New Vision, Kampala, Uganda. Govt names diaspora rebel collaborators © The New Vision By Barbara Among July 3, 2009 THE Army yesterday released the names of people accused of establishing a rebel group, the Uganda Patriotic Front (UPF). The group is led by renowned medical doctor, Henry Obonyo, who lives in the United States and has a second home in the United...

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Uganda: Ex-Minister New DR Congo Envoy

KINSHASA has posted former foreign affairs minister Jean Charles Okoto as its ambassador to Kampala.

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Uganda fish exporters worry as stocks dwindle

KAMPALA - Uganda's fishing industry will disappear in the next five years unless the government moves to stop dwindling stocks, experts said.

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450 Bags of Fake Cement Impounded

THE UGANDA National Bureau of Standards has confiscated 450 bags of fake cement. Officials confirmed yesterday that the 22,500kg of cement, seized from a make-shift building in Kampala on Sunday, is fake.

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Utoda Row - KCC Sets Operator's Debt Ultimatum

Kampala City Council has given the Uganda Taxi Operators and Drivers Association [Utoda] up-to November 2009 to clear its outstanding debt of Sh1.5 billion or risk terminating its contract.

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Police Arrests MP Beti Kamya Over Owino Rally

THE Police on Tuesday arrested the Uganda Federal Alliance (UFA) activists for attempting to hold a rally in Owino and Park Yard markets in down town Kampala. Members of UFA, a civil organisation led by Rubaga MP Beti Kamya, were selling membership cards to the vendors when the Police nabbed them.

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Rwanda: Marine Risk Losing Players for Fiba Club Qualifiers

MARINE could field an under-strength side when the Eastern and Central Africa Club Championship/ Zone 5 Club Championships gets underway on July 27 in Kampala, Uganda.

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Kampala is Boosted By Iran, Messed By Rwanda, S. Africa

Ordinarily, an event 4,374 kilometres away in Tehran wouldn't have significant impact in Uganda.

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Police Releases Betty Kamya

Police has released Ms Betty Olive Kamya and 50 members of the Uganda Federal Alliance who were earlier arrested by police at Owino Market in downtown Kampala today.

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1,000 Pieces of Ivory Seized

THE Uganda Wildlife Authority is hunting for poachers and traders in ivory following the recovery of 100 pieces of elephant ivory hidden in sacks of beans at Kabusu in Kampala.

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And Here Come the Broadband People

At the time of its construction from Mombasa in 1896 to Kisumu and later to Port Bell in Kampala, the Uganda Railway was nicknamed the Lunatic Line. It had the 'habit' of meandering 'aimlessly', and disrupting or uprooting whole African communities from their settlements to create way for itself.

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CEOs bid adieu to MTN's Meier

MTN's outgoing chief executive officer (CEO) Noel Meier (2nd right) introduces his successor, Themba Khumalo (right), to Bank of Uganda's governor, Emmanuel Tumusime Mutebile (left). This was at a farewell party for Meier at the Kampala Serena Hotel recently

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Kampala to Host Smart Partnership Next Month

Uganda will host the Global 2009 Smart Partnership Dialogue in Kampala on July 26-28.

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Uganda: Will Our Makerere Beat Malawi's Mzuzu?

ARE we about to see yet another Ugandan university getting thrown out of the Zain Africa Challenge after Busoga and Kampala universities? I am not sure what to expect, considering that the team from Malawi's Mzuzu University, which is going to face Makerere in tonight's showdown, isn't a weak one. But I will put my money on Makerere winning. No specific reasons, really. Just a hunch.

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Uganda: Graft Has Hampered Uganda's Growth

IN the run-up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in November 2007, Kampala and Entebbe glittered. Almost all streets shone with street lights and clean pavements. Flower-beds decorated the islands on roads, litter was disposed of in a rightful manner, and the roads were pothole-free, at least temporarily. The city had transformed into something foreign, something glamourous.