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Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Uganda , where commercially viable crude deposits have been found, will send oil workers to Cuba for training, New Vision reported, citing a statement from the president’s office.
KAMPALA, 3 December 2009 (IRIN) - The UN Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa, Elizabeth Mataka, has added her voice to growing criticism of a Ugandan bill that would criminalize the deliberate transmission of HIV.
Kampala - Visiting UN Secretary General Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa Elizabeth Mataka Wednesday urged Uganda to drop its impending laws against people infecting others with the AIDS and called upon the government to soften its stand on gays. The U...
Ugandan police face supporters of opposition presidential candidate Kizza Besigye on February 25, 2006 after dispersing them with live rounds and teargas outside his Forum for Democratic Change headquarters in western Kampala.
KAMPALA, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - In a bid to reduce the rate of HIV transmission from mother to child, Uganda will now give all pregnant women highly active antiretroviral therapy.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Coffee exports from Uganda , Africa’s biggest producer of the robusta variety, fell 12 percent in November after rains disrupted harvesting, the state-run Uganda Coffee Development Authority said.
The influential evangelical leader and anti-gay-marriage activist refuses to condemn a proposed law in Uganda that calls for the death penalty for gay sex.
The Ugandan government is expected to get its first tax revenues from the anticipated takeover of Heritage Oil interests by Italy-based Eni SpA, the spokesman for Uganda's state revenue body told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday.
Tullow and Heritage are equal partners in Blocks 1 and 3A in Uganda’s Lake Albert. Eni, Italy’s biggest energy company, said Nov. 23 it had signed a letter of intent with Heritage to buy its share.
KAMPALA, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - As donors tighten their belts in the global recession, health experts in Uganda worry that the national antiretroviral (ARV) programme, which is almost entirely dependent on foreign aid, will be unable to keep providing the life-prolonging drugs.
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Inflation in Uganda slowed to 12 percent in November as food and fuel prices declined, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics said. The inflation rate dropped from 13.4 percent in October, the Kampala-based agency said in a statement today.
Journalist Jeff Sharlet joined Rachel Maddow to discuss the connections between American religious conservatives known as the Family and the prospective deadly bill against gay people in Uganda.
("=UPDATE:ExxonMobil,Total Talk With Dominion On Uganda-Sources," published at 1336 GMT, misstated in the ninth paragraph that ExxonMobil and Total are looking to take a stake in Dominion Petroleum, when they are in fact looking at a stake in exploration acreage held by Dominion.
(Adds more details.) LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and Total SA (TOT) are in talks to enter Dominion Petroleum Ltd.'s (DPL.LN) acreage in Uganda, people familiar with the matter said this week, as the scramble for new African oil heats up.
Rachel Maddow is speaking out against the proposed Ugandan law that would call for the death of gays and lesbians in many scenarios if passed -- and naming the three Americans credited with inspiring the bill.
ExxonMobil and Total are reportedly in discussions to acquire shares in Dominion Petroleum's acreage in Uganda. - More -
