Full Coverage: Uganda

07.11.2009 A proposed Ugandan law on HIV/AIDS promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic and would violate human rights, a group of more than 50 Ugandan and international organisations and individuals says in a new report.

12.10.2009 A BBC analysis takes Uganda as a case study to examine the Africa-wide problem that generous funding for HIV/AIDS programmes has not been matched by the broader health insfrastructure. BBC News

02.10.2009 Four actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated - Afghanistan, Bosnia, Guinea and Uganda - in September and none improved, according to the International Crisis Group.

01.09.2009 A community in north-eastern Congo is living in constant fear of attacks from a Ugandan rebel group, the head of the UN Children's Fund warned yesterday.

24.08.2009 Kwame Kwei-Armah’s four-part series retracing Queen Elizabeth’s 1954 royal trip, On Tour With The Queen, is odd but quietly engaging.

19.07.2009 I've been confused by the enthusiasm for male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy. Here's confirmation that it doesn't offer any benefits to women. Kaiser Family Foundation

14.05.2009 Part of the Rwenzori Mountains – home to some of the last glaciers in Africa – have received international recognition as a protected wetland site, a move described as "a major conservation decision that will help protect the region’s vast ecological riches."

06.05.2009 Innovations from Ethiopia, India, Nicaragua, the US and Uganda are named as finalists for this year's Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.

14.02.2009 The British supermarket chain Asda came under fire today over claims that workers earn a living wage supplying Valentine’s flowers on sale in its stores for £2 a dozen.
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13.01.2009 Key medicinal plants used for cancer, malaria and other remedies are being over-exploited — potentially putting the health of millions at risk, warns an international conservation group.

01.01.2009 Emergency supplies for more than 18,000 Congolese fleeing the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army have been delivered by the World Food Programme.

30.12.2008 A series of massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army has been reported by the confederation of Catholic charities.

27.12.2008 The UN peacekeeping mission in Congo has rushed a company of government troops to the north-east following reliable reports that elements of the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army had massacred at least 15 villagers.

21.12.2008 All boys and men in Uganda will be mobilised for free circumcision beginning next year to help slow the spread of HIV, the assistant commissioner for national disease control, Dr. Alex Opio, announced.

15.12.2008 Uganda, South Sudan and DR Congo yesterday jointly attacked the rebel Uganda movement, the Lord's Resistance Army, in eastern Congo's Garamaba forest.

30.11.2008 Set in the Ugandan capital, Divizionz is a low-budget feature film about four friends from different parts of the country who are trying to make it as hop hop performers in Kampala.

19.11.2008 Judges of the International Criminal Court are re-evaluating cases against leading members of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army to determine whether they are still viable and whether Uganda’s proposed special court could be used for some of the prosecutions.
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24.09.2008 Refugees who have been disabled by the war in northern Uganda are confronting food shortages and inaccessible public services in government-run camps, as well as being under growing pressure to return home, even though they lack the resources to resume a normal life.

17.09.2008 Corruption is a serious threat in humanitarian assistance, Sarah Bailey of Britain’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI) told a meeting in London.

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