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Child Soldier Recruitment Prevention A Hopeless Cause For UN

Inter Press Service | Thalif Deen | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Child Soldiers, Foreign Affairs, Burma, United Nations, Middle East, Taliban, Congo, Philippines, Child Soldier, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Africa, Byanmar, Taliban Child Soldier, Somalia, Uganda, Asia, Iraq, Child Soldier Recruitment, Advocacy, World News

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually helpless as an increasing number of armed groups - described as "non-state actor...

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The Invisible Children

Jason Russell | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living

Read More: The Rescue, Lra, Uganda, Invisible Children, The Rescue Rally, The Giving Life, Living News

In April 2003, two weeks before the Iraq war started, two weeks before I traveled to Sudan to document the holocaust, I went to Africa tell a story that mattered. And it changed my life forever.

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Mountaineers Climb Up so Kids with AIDS Can Grow Up

Jim Luce | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

To raise funding and awareness for children living with AIDS in Africa, the tallest mountain peak in every state in America will be scaled this spring.

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Ugandan Spy Arrested For Stealing Thousands From AIDS Fund

BBC | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: AIDs Epidemic, Foreign Affairs, AIDS Funding, Hiv, Ugandan Spy, Aids Epidemic in Africa, HIV/AIDS, Africa, HIV in Africa, HIV Prevention, Aids, Uganda, HIV/AIDS Africa, Aids Charity, Advocacy, World News

A Ugandan spy who set up a bogus charity and embezzled thousands of dollars of funding meant for Aids patients has been jailed for 10 years....

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Obamabilia From Africa!: New Exhibit Displays Obama Items From Africa

AP | NAFEESA SYEED | Posted 04.27.2009 | Style

Read More: Obama Library of Congress, Obamabilia From Africa!, Nairobi-Kenya, Kenya, Uganda, Angola, Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Style News

WASHINGTON — Ndiyo Tunaweza! That's Swahili for "Yes We Can," President Barack Obama's signature campaign line that became just as ubiquitous i...

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Our First Day in Uganda

Tom Cavanagh and Gavin DeGraw | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Celebrities Talk Politics, Gavin Degraw, Africa, Uganda, Nothing but Nets, Tom Cavanagh, Malaria Nets, The Giving Life, World News

We're a small group of people doing a small thing, driving down a junked up, dusty road to hand one family a malaria net. But the more nets we're able to buy, the more children get to grow up and tell us their stories.

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Obama's Latest Preacher Problem

Wayne Besen | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uganda, TD Jakes, Human-Rights-Abuses, Bbc, Jim Wallis, Rick Warren, Donnie McClurkin, Ex-Gay, Kirbyjon Caldwell, Nigeria, Barack Obama, Politics News

Will spending time in the biblical backwater influence Obama's views and lead him to sell us down the river?

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Good News for Darfur

Lloyd Axworthy | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, United Nations Security Council, Louise Arbour, G-8, President Milosevic, President Omar Al-Bashir, Darfur, Sudan, Bashir, Kosovo, International Criminal Court, World News

The International Security Council must now resist the temptation to interfere with court proceedings as it grapples with the situation in Darfur.

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"Profound Disconnect" Between African Media Coverage Of Agriculture And People's Lives: IWMF Report

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

Read More: African Women, Africa Agriculture, Sowing the Seeds, Africa, International Women’s Media Foundation, African Media, Iwmf, Iwmf Report African Media, Uganda, Kampala-Uganda, Mali, Zambia, World News

There is a "profound disconnect" between how the media covers agricultural issues in Africa and how people actually live, according to a new study by ...

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US Helped Plan And Finance Failed Rout Of Ugandan Rebels

New York Times | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 03.10.2009 | World

Read More: Lord's Resistance Army, Uganda, Uganda Rebels, Uganda Massacre, World News

The American military helped plan and pay for a recent attack on a notorious Ugandan rebel group, but the offensive went awry, scattering fighters who...

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Uganda Massacre: Lord's Resistance Army Slaughters 900 People

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

Read More: Lord's Resistance Army, Uganda Rebels, Uganda, Uganda Massacre, Lord's Resistance Army Kills Civilians, World News

NAIROBI, Kenya — An aid group on Wednesday accused U.N. peacekeepers of failing to protect more than 900 people who have been killed by Ugandan ...

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Ugandan Rebels Rampage In Central Africa, More Than 50 Civilians Killed In Congo And Sudan

The Guardian | Xan Rice | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

Read More: Lra, Congo Uganda, Uganda, Congo, Central Africa, Sudan, Uganda Congo, Africa, World News

Rebels from Uganda's Lord's Resistance army (LRA) have continued their rampage through central Africa, killing more than 50 civilians in south Sudan a...

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Doing the Right Thing in Somalia

Frankie Martin | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

Read More: Senator Russ Feingold, Uganda, Rendition, Islam, Cia, War on Terror, Africa, Politics, Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, United Nations, US Foreign Policy, Al Shabab, Ethiopia, World News, Union of Islamic Courts, Hillary Clinton, Somali Pirates, African Union, Terrorism, Djibouti, Burundi, Barack Obama, Us Somalia, Un Somalia Peacekeepers, Us Foreign Relations, Uic, Un Peacekeepers, Ban Ki-Moon, Humanitarian Crisis, World News

An international stabilization force may well be what is needed in Somalia, but the tough groundwork will have to be laid first. And for this, the Somali people must be on board.

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Congo Massacre: African Nations Deploy Troops

AP | GODFREY OLUKYA | Posted 01.31.2009 | World

Read More: Congo Conflict, Lord's Resistance Army, Congo Massacre, Africa Troops Uganda, Rebels Congo, African Troops Congo, Uganda, Congo, Congo Christmas Massacre, World News

KAMPALA, Uganda — Three African nations are deploying troops to remote eastern Congo after reports that Ugandan rebels killed more than 400 peop...

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Congo Massacre Day After Christmas

AP | GODFREY OLUKYA | Posted 01.29.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda Rebels Congo, Congo Massacre, Rebels Congo, United Nations, Congo Massacre Christmas, Congo Uganda, Uganda, Lord's Resistance Army, Uganda Congo, Congo, World News

KAMPALA, Uganda — Attackers hacked to death scores of people who sought refuge at a Catholic church in remote eastern Congo the day after Christ...

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Over 30,000 Congolese Refugees Flood Into Uganda

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Read More: Conflict in Congo, Congo War, Uganda, Congolese Refugees, Africa, Congolese Refugees to Uganda, World News

NAIROBI, Kenya — Delegations from the Congolese government and rebel forces opened U.N.-brokered peace talks Monday, trying to resolve the viole...

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Innocence Lost: The Child Soldiers Forced To Murder

The Independent | Posted 01.06.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, African Child Soldiers, Child Soldiers, Africa, World News

The first time I met Ojok Charles it was August 2006. I was travelling in central and east Africa, specifically Uganda, on the border with the Democra...

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Giving Peace a Chance in Northern Uganda

Mark Leon Goldberg | Posted 01.02.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, World News, Genocide, World News

Today, the war in Uganda is coming to close. But deep social cleavages born from these acts of brutality remain embedded in war-affected communities, making long lasting peace difficult to achieve.

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Ugandan "Booby Trap" Snares Male Bar-Goers

AFP | Posted 01.01.2009 | Style

Read More: Huff Fluff, Booby Trap, Uganda, Boobs, Chloroform, Africa, Style News

Uganda's police warned male bar-goers to keep their noses clean after a probe found a gang of robbers had been using women with chloroform smeared on ...

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Bwindi Gorillas Increasingly Threatened By Human Conflict

VBS.tv | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Drc, Endangered Animals, Uganda, Africa, Gorillas, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Animals, Rwanda, Green News

VBS.tv just put up another excellent travel video series focusing on the gorilla population in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, where the borders of Ug...

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Did Uganda Have a Space Program, or is Robert Kimball a Fool?

Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Civil Rights, African-American Issues, Uganda, Robert Kimball, Nobel Prize Literature, Uganda Space Program, Media News

Was there a Ugandan Space Program? There is no online evidence that I can find, and the whole thing sounds kind of dodgy.

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Malaria Kills. Nets Save Lives.

Kathy Bushkin Calvin | Posted 10.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Kenya, Sudan, Health, United Nations Foundation, Malaria, Bed Nets, Uganda, Nothing but Nets, Refugees, Living News

As an immediate, easy, and inexpensive way to tackle the disease, bed nets are an ideal remedy for this population in particular and are an indispensable component in the broader fight against malaria.

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UN Needs to Lead New Uganda Peace Strategy

John Prendergast | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, Joaquim Chissano, Joseph Kony, Africa, United Nations, Lord's Resistance Army, Lra, World News

The Lord's Resistance Army is creating havoc and abducting children in four countries in central Africa. A new strategy is needed to end the ongoing threat they pose to international peace and security.

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No More Negotiations

Adam Elkus | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lord's Resistance Army, Uganda, Peacekeeping, Joseph Kony, Africa, War Crimes, United Nations, Politics News

Uganda hasn't attracted the attention of any celebrities, but the cult-like Lord's Resistance Army has raped, mutilated, and killed thousands of the nation's citizens.

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