NTV Kenya
| Apr 7, 2013
Ugandan women will be forced to cover up if the nation passes a law banning miniskirts as part of a new "anti-pornography" move. Women in skirts above the knee could face ten-year prison sentences. "Any attire which exposes intimate parts of the h...
Democracy Now!
| Jan 23, 2013
Democracy Now! looks at a new documentary that chronicles the "crime of the century": The deaths of millions of Africans denied generic AIDS drugs by the efforts of pharmaceutical giants. "Fire in the Blood" made its debut at the Sundance Film Fes...
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United Nations Girls' Education Initiative
| May 5, 2010
What does it take to educate a girl? Framed by the United Nations global initiative to provide equal access to education for girls by 2015, To Educate a Girl takes a ground-up and visually stunning view of that effort through the eyes of girls ...
ABC News (Australia)
| Nov 25, 2012
Abducted into Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, boy soldier Julius Achon managed to escape after a year then racked up miles running in competitive races to snag a scholarship to a US university, and qualify for the Olympics. But he never forgot th...
NTV Uganda
| Nov 12, 2012
Speaker of Ugandan parliament Rebecca Kadaga is vowing to pass a bill banning homosexuality before the end of the year to deliver the "Christmas gift" demanded by anti-gay activists. She made the remarks at a parliamentary conference hall where sh...
VOA News
| Oct 26, 2012
Inspired by the popularity of US and UK reality home makeover shows, a TV producer in Kenya has created a hit farming reality program followed by 7 million viewers that's helping farmers in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania do a better job.
Euronews
| Oct 17, 2012
Rwanda is not only supporting rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, its defense chief is doubling up as the rebel commander, according to a UN report. Uganda is also aiding the M23 rebels, states the report, which finds that Rwan...
Voice of America
| Sep 14, 2012
A group of young Ugandan baseball players were a big hit at the Little League World Series at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. They may not have won the competition, but they made history as the first African team to take part.
Al Jazeera English
| Aug 1, 2012
The death toll from an outbreak of the ebola virus in villages in western Uganda has risen to at least 16. President Yoweri Museveni has also confirmed that the deadly virus has hit the capital city, Kampala. He has also issued a national warning ...
LinkTV News
| Jul 31, 2012
Civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are being caught in heavy fighting as government forces aided by UN peacekeepers continue fighting the M23 rebel group with heavy weapons around two eastern villages. Thousands of civilians are fle...
— May 10 at 11:46 am
...at least $365,000 (an estimated Shs 949m) richer for the subsequent 18 months. It would not be the first time for Uganda to get such monies from...
— May 7 at 12:30 pm
...the team with valuable experience. But that isn't all. These series of games will have a lot at stake around them. If Team Uganda finishes at wo...
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania.
Uganda takes its name from the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south of the country including the capital Kampala. The people of Uganda were hunter-gatherers until 1,700 to 2,300 years ago, when Bantu-speaking populations migrated to the southern parts of the country. They had agriculture and were metalworkers.
Beginning in the late 1800s, the area was ruled as a colony by the British, who established administrative law across the territory. Uganda gained independence from Britain on 9 October 1962. The period since then has been marked by intermittent conflicts, most recently a lengthy civil war against the Lord's Resistance Army, which has caused tens of thousands of casualties and displaced more than a million people.
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