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South
Africa May Ban Key Mother-Child AIDS Drug
30th July 03
South Africa will ban the use of the AIDS drug Nevirapine to block transmission
of HIV from mother to child unless the manufacturer can provide new
data to prove its safety, officials said Wednesday.
U.S.
Says Terrorists May Be Using East Africa
30th
July 03
U.S. Central Command chief General John Abizaid said Wednesday east
Africa could still be a transit and operational zone for terrorists,
and urged states in the region to combat the threat.
In
Search Of Uganda's Lost Youth 28th July 03
When U.S. President George W. Bush visited Uganda three weeks ago, he
hailed the government of President Yoweri Museveni for its remarkable
success in battling aids. But Museveni hasn't had the same success in
his fight against the LRA. The fighting has forced more than 850,000
people from their homes. The rebels have kidnapped more than 15,000
children into the ranks of the LRA, and two weeks ago, 45 boys and girls
drowned when their captors forced them to try to cross a rain-swollen
river. Three days after Bush left, more than 20,000 children marched
through the town of Kitgum, demanding an end to the misery, carrying
signs that said let us to go to school and we want to be free and don't
make us slaves. The war "is a crime against humanity that is being ignored,"
says Father Josef Gerner, a German missionary in Kitgum, who helped
organize the rally. "Whoever has eyes to see and ears to hear" — the
rebels, the government, the rest of the world — "should pay attention
to what's going on."
Cutting
out middlemen
30th July 03
Maize farmers should have reason to rejoice.
Since the beginning of the year the price of maize has been rising.
WFP
Appeals for US$54mil to tackle
"worst humanitarian crisis in years"
30th July 03
Over one million people - half of them children - are now displaced
in Uganda as a result of the protracted insurgency of the Lord's Resistance
Army (LRA). Since June 2002, fighting has intensified and expanded beyond
the traditional areas of conflict in northern Uganda (Gulu, Kitgum and
Pader districts) to strike Lira, Apac, Soroti, Katakwi, Kumi and Kotido
districts
"Mayombo
is Lying and Feeding
Museveni False Intelligence", Says Sudan Envoy
30th July 03
These are sad times. Human lives are being lost everyday and for the
suffering people it would now seem that their main hope lies in the
story of their plight being told. This sad story must be kept alive
because it is one way we can maintain the pressure on those who are
charged with the duty of ensuring national security.
Kony's Spirits
and the Pope's Juju
27th July 03
Pope John Paul II has already expressed his anguish at the suffering
of our people in the north. Moreover, Joseph Kony is a Catholic, making
a Vatican intervention even more apt. Nankabirwa should now appeal to
the Pope to invoke the juju in the Icon of Kazan to transform the rebel
leader's heart.
Let
Army Address 'Friendly Fire" incidents
27th July 03
Pregnant woman and her son shot dead by UPDF.
Ugandan
army kills
funeral-goers in mistaken helicopter attack
24th July 03
Ugandan army officers mistakenly launched an attack on a group of mourners
at a funeral in northern Lira district, believing them to be rebel fighters,
a military spokesman said Thursday.
Museveni
say's, "Keep the death penality"
23rd July 03
"I hear some people saying that the death sentence is inhuman. Very
sorry. We shall shoot anybody who kills a human being," Museveni warned,
adding that criminals must be punished for their crimes.
‘SAVE us from death’:
Children march for peace in northern Uganda
23rd July 03
Approximately 20,000 young people marched through the Kitgum town in
northern Uganda on July 14, demanding an end to a war that has claimed
countless lives over the past 18 years.
Fresh
Call for Kony and UPDF to Stop the War
21st July 03
HUMAN RIGHTS abuses by both rebel forces and government troops in Uganda
have increased alarmingly over the past year, according to a major new
report from a coalition of NGOs released last week.
Suffer
the children kidnapped
and brutalised by Uganda's army
20th July 03
AS NIGHT falls in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu, the children start
to appear. First in twos or threes, then in huge gangs in their thousands.
They trudge into town, afraid to sleep in their villages, where the
kidnappers strike. By midnight the streets of Gulu are crammed with
tiny bodies. The pavements are impossible to walk on because they are
so full of sleeping children. Every public place, including the hospital,
schools and churches, are crammed to capacity.
Rebels
kill two in Uganda
19th July 03
At least two people were killed and two injured when suspected Lord's
Resistance Army (LRA) rebels attacked a displaced people's camp in northern
Uganda's Gulu district, army spokesman Lieutenant Paddy Ankunda said
on Saturday.
‘They
tied me up and hacked off my lips’
19th July 03
Then, telling the 16-year-old schoolboy not to scream, they sliced off
his ears. Then they pushed him down to the ground and cut off what they
could of his lips.
Children
abducted by rebels drown in Uganda
19th July 03
At least 45 children abducted by Ugandan rebels drowned in a river in
the eastern part of the country over the weekend, the Ugandan army said
on Thursday
27
killed in northern Uganda fighting since Sunday
16th July 03
Sharp
Decline in Human Rights in Northern Uganda
16th July 03
Child
Abuse High in
War-Torn Northern Uganda
15th July 03
"No
Peace in Northern Uganda"
Archbishop Reminds Bush
13th July 03
EU
Official Urges International
Support for Reconciliation in
Northern Uganda
10th July 03
Why
Our Country Attracts Bush
9th July 03
Ugandan
Rebels Force Children,
Women To Eat Own Flesh
7th July 03
A
voice for Uganda's forgotten crisis
4th July 03
Not
safe in their own beds
3rd July 03
John
Paul II Calls for an End to
Conflicts in Uganda and Liberia
2nd July 03
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
Urgent
need to end torture following death in custody
27th June 03
Amnesty International is gravely concerned at the persistent reports
of torture by members of Uganda's Violent Crime Crack Unit (VCCU).
Uganda:
President Museveni should reject US impunity agreement
12th June 03
The Ugandan President reportedly plans to sign the agreement with the
US today while on an official visit to the United States. The agreement
would commit the government of Uganda not to surrender US nationals
accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes to the new
ICC.
84
people killed in northern Ugandan civil war in May
30th May 03
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