Full Coverage: Uganda

18.07.2008 Today you will understand is a collection of 16 true stories related via radio interviews conducted jointly by a radio project in northern Uganda and members of the Uganda Women Writers’ Association.

01.07.2008 A new project is being launched to support conflict survivors in Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.

05.06.2008 Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo say they have agreed to jointly fight Lord's Resistance Army rebels if peace talks with its elusive leader, Joseph Kony, fail, according to a Ugandan military official.

23.04.2008 Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by Uganda's rebel LordÂ’s Resistance Army in recent weeks.

07.04.2008 UgandaÂ’s Capital Market Authority has expressed optimism that the Central Depositary System which is a computerised system of conducting trading on the stock exchange will be operational before the end of the year

02.04.2008 BROSDI uses a multistakeholder approach by engaging government, private sector and civil society in knowledge sharing as a means of rural development. This is through using ICT methods, inclusive of online social networking applications and participatory methods

01.04.2008 For rural populace who could not buy mobile phones due to power shortage, a new system has been launched in Uganda that enables people to charge phones by using a bicycle. The system can charge eight phones per hour by riding a bicycle.

21.03.2008 BROSDI uses a multistakeholder approach by engaging government, private sector and civil society in knowledge sharing as a means of rural development. This is through using ICT methods, inclusive of online social networking applications and participatory methods

19.03.2008 BROSDI uses a multistakeholder approach by engaging government, private sector and civil society in knowledge sharing as a means of rural development. This is through using ICT methods, inclusive of online social networking applications and participatory methods

18.03.2008 Some Ugandan policymakers are seriously considering the results of a new study that recommends more funding for youth-friendly sex education and related services to stem the spread of HIV and other diseases.

13.03.2008 The number of Ugandans working as security guards in Iraq has hit the 6,000 mark, according to the Minister of State for Labour, Mwesigwa Rukutana.
From The Monitor

10.03.2008 Hib meningitis has been virtually eliminated in young children in Uganda just five years after the country introduced a vaccine, according to an independent study.
From GAVI Alliance

03.03.2008 The shortage of health workers that is said to be holding back the achievement of international health goals is the subject of an international conference that opens in Uganda today.

27.02.2008 Lasting peace is near at hand as the Ugandan government and main rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, finalized the last item on the peace negotiations agenda -- disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration.
From: The New Vision

23.02.2008 The Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army have signed a deal declaring a "permanent ceasefire" at peace talks in Juba, southern Sudan.
From Sunday Monitor

22.02.2008 An agreement over how war crimes suspects will be tried has allowed peace negotiators to move on to discussing a permanent ceasefire, with hopes that a final deal will be struck "very soon."

21.02.2008 Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda -- all highly dependent on Kenya for goods, transport links, and services -- are struggling to cope with the consequences of the east African nation's ongoing political crisis.

21.02.2008 The Uganda government has struck a deal with the rebel Lord's Resistance Army about where their leaders will be tried.

14.02.2008 CEEWA-U has developed an ICT Project to bridge the information gap between information sources, institutions with information and the end users. The Project facilitates linkages with the women at the grass root level and assists in establishing the impact of government policies and programmes and how the use and application of ICTs create an avenue for bridging the information gap.

12.02.2008 (BROSDI) , is a poverty reduction targeting NGO working in the Busoga region and beyond since 2003 until to date. BROSDI offices are found in Wainha Village, Baitambogwe Sub County, Mayuge District.BROSDI aims at stimulating socio-economic development through use of Open Development mediums; in particular use of FOSS, knowledge sharing and information management