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As Spiderman has always understood, with great power comes great responsibility. In Catholicism, that’s a point with particular relevance these days for Africa.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Uganda’s population may more than triple by 2050 to 103 million people because of a high growth rate, the country’s Population Secretariat said.
University of Alberta graduate student Jennifer Heys wants to make her message clear: there needs to be more education in Ugandan communities about contraception.Heys' research, on HIV-positive individuals and their desire to bear more children, was read by experts from all over the world who gathered last week at the International Conference on Family Planning in Kampala, Uganda.Heys, who ...
On Tuesday, Nov. 17, the Children in Need Club welcomed two of the people involved in the production of "The Rescue of Joseph Kony's Child Soldiers," a documentary that exposes the tragic realities of northern Uganda's night commuters and child soldiers, to the Loyola community.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan officials say the army has killed 34 tribesmen who were stealing cattle in Uganda's volatile northeastern region.
Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni warned youths that "European homosexuals" were recruiting in his country.
KAMPALA -(Dow Jones)- Uganda will continue to update its legislation to make sure the country benefits from its soon-to-be commercially exploited oil reserves and reduce the financial bias toward foreign companies, a lawmaker said Monday.
Roughly four dozen LGBT activists and allies turned out on November 19 to protest at Uganda House –– that nation’s permanent mission to the United Nations on Manhattan’s East 45th Street –– voicing their outrage about a draconian proposal to criminalize the promotion of same-sex conduct and impose the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.”
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Ugandan forces deployed in the Central African Republic expect success “soon” in their hunt for rebel Lord’s Resistance Army fighters and their leader Joseph Kony , a spokesman for the Ugandan People’s Defence Force said.
Dozens of people were killed in a remote corner of Central African Republic when Ugandan rebels attacked villagers but were then ambushed by Ugandan soldiers, a witness and local media said.
An antigay conservative group with high-powered U.S. political allies has used its influence to support a proposed Ugandan law that would impose the death penalty on "repeat offenders" engaging in gay sex.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan officials say they are offended that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised former dictator Idi Amin. Officials including President Yoweri Museveni's secretary Tamale Mirundi say Amin ruled brutally in the 1970s.
An approaching global climate summit has raised the temperature at what is usually a low-key meeting of leaders from Britain's former colonial empire.
Kampala - The president of Southern Sudan on Wednesday narrowly avoided becoming the second successive leader of the autonomous region to die in an air crash when a tyre burst on his plane just before take-off at an northern Ugandan airfield. Salva K...
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Uganda’s government has yet to approve the planned sale of oil fields owned by Heritage Oil Ltd. to Eni SpA, New Vision reported, citing Ernest Rubondo, the commissioner for petroleum exploration and production.
Twenty-four families held five garage sales over the past two weekends and raised $12,359 to provide clean drinking water to a village in Uganda. The money will fund a deep-water well, which will supply water for more than 1,000 refugees who have...
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