Three times she was captured and released, yet the horror of her sojourns in the custody of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continued to disturb her.
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Esther Kasirye Kisekka has been a nurse for 11 years and an HIV/AIDS counselor for the last three years in Kampala. She has seen a lot of shocking things.
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Many small- and medium-scale traders may lose their property to banks in Uganda if the government fails to address the issue of interest rate now.
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When last year Vimal Shah said that Uganda was getting more attention from Kenyan firms, he definitely didn’t have in mind people like Fred Karanja.
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David Ruganda has never felt more pride and admiration for the elder sister. The 23 year-old sales executive, who hails from Tororo district, in eastern Uganda, abandoned daily duty to witness the graduation ceremony of Immaculate Ruganda at Makerere University, in Kampala city.
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A simple act of help did both the giver and the receiver a world of good. Emmanuel Adeniyi, a Nigerian journalist, might never know just how much difference he has made in the life of Tuli De Gita, a statistician from South Africa.
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Eighteen African Christian journalists have gathered in Uganda, for the first World Journalism Institute Workshop for Christian journalists on African soil, held January 15-27, 2012.
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“For God and my Country,” signed Maj. Gen Kale Kayihura, inspector general of police, in the 2011 document, Uganda Police Force Sector Strategic Plan. Journalists attending events at Makerere University on Jan. 19 had an opportunity to learn how Kayihura’s men and women serve God and Uganda.
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Dressed in a black and white gown and putting on a black tassel, Simon Kajimo walks around with measured steps and a broad smile. Like many others dressed like him on this January morning, Kajimo, 32, is headed to the Makerere University graduation square in downtown Kampala for one of the biggest days of his life.
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The finest fashion designs from the West, especially tuxedos and other suits, have infiltrated Africa and taken the place of previously respected traditional garments. But in Africa’s most populous country with a population of over 150 million people, agbada has refused to back down, and remains a status symbol especially among the Yoruba people of western Nigeria.
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The story of Kunle Awosiyan is close to the fairly tale of the “ugly duckling” except that he found his true identity in journalism whereas the former found it by looking at his reflection in the water.
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