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Uganda to ban NGOs accused of promoting gay rights

YoopyaJun 20, 20120

By Jocelyn Edwards KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda said on Wednesday it was banning 38 non-governmental organisations it accuses of promoting homosexuality and recruiting children. Homosexuality

Desperate Ugandans Seek Makeshift Healers as Mysterious Illness Strikes Young

YoopyaJun 11, 20120

OJURU, Uganda — Haunted by a merciless and debilitating disease that doctors cannot cure, villagers in this remote enclave in northern Uganda have turned to

UN reports on Ugandan warlord’s crimes against children

YoopyaJun 7, 20120

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has submitted his first report to the Security Council detailing grave crimes committed against

African Union troops say seize key Somali town

YoopyaMay 25, 20120

By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – African Union troops on Friday seized a rebel stronghold near Mogadishu from al Qaeda-linked insurgents, marking a major blow

Ugandan government returns telecom stake to Libyan firm

YoopyaMay 24, 20120

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda has returned a majority stake in Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) to its Libyan shareholders after seizing it early last year as

Uganda captures Lord’s Resistance Army commander

YoopyaMay 14, 20120

By Justin Dralaze RIVER VOVODO, Central African Republic (Reuters) – U ganda has captured one of the top five members of the Lord’s Resistance Army,

Uganda says could eject Oxfam over land grab claims

kiemtarMay 9, 2012May 10, 20120

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda has threatened to kick out Oxfam after the British charity accused the government of complicity in violent land grabs for commercial gains,

US troops synch hi-tech and nomad intel in Kony hunt

YoopyaApr 30, 20120

By Richard Lough OBO, Central African Republic (Reuters) – In a bare concrete room in a far-flung corner of Central African Republic, U.S. special forces

Ugandan troops play jungle cat and mouse with Kony

YoopyaApr 21, 20120

(Reuters) – A Ugandan “hunting squad” pushes through the thick jungle of central Africa in search of the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony. It is tough

Anti-Kony campaign in turmoil after filmmaker’s breakdown

YoopyaApr 3, 2012April 3, 20120

By Mary Slosson LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The public meltdown of the man behind the viral “Kony 2012” video has thrown his campaign into turmoil