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Uganda Government News: UN says women vital to peace in post-conflict zones
Ultimate Media
A senior UN official has indicated that a comprehensive and sustainable peace is not possible in post-conflict situations unless women’s security and participation is a primary objective in conflict resolution.
The Executive Director of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Inés Alberdi told the United Nations Security Council in New York yesterday that Gender [...]
Uganda loses HIV funding over fears of misuse
Annie Kelly
guardian.co.uk,
Thursday October 30 2008 11.50 GMT
Uganda has lost 25bn Ugandan shillings ($12m) of Global Fund money due to concerns over poor accountability, according to reports this week.
The Global Fund has refused to release a second $10m instalment from the $36m pot it allocated for HIV/Aids activities in Uganda in 2003 because it was not [...]
Education crisis in northern Uganda
Region struggles to rebuild school system after two decades of war.
By Patrick Okino and Bill Oketch in northern Uganda Lira (AR No. 184, 01-Sep-08)
Many people blame the education crisis in northern Uganda on the 20 year war with Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. A least 30% of school-age children in the north are not [...]
Kony to Resume Peace Talks
Joseph Kony
Rebel leader ready for resumption of peace talks: UN envoy
2 hours ago
KAMPALA (AFP) — Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony wants to resume talks with the government to end a drawn-out conflict in northern Uganda, an aide to the top UN envoy said Monday.
Kony, whose Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been fighting the government of [...]
The Wretched Women of the Aids Struggle
The Monitor (Kampala)
NEWS
4 August 2008
Posted to the web 4 August 2008
By Jane Nafula
Ms Ann Asokot, of Gogonyo village in Pallisa District thought that by revealing her HIV status to her husband, she would be supported. Little did she know that this was the beginning of a violent relationship and stigma.
Ms Asokot was among participants at [...]
HIV Spread Still High Despite Fall in Infection
HIV Spread Still High Despite Fall in Infection
The Monitor (Kampala)
2 August 2008
Posted to the web 4 August 2008
By Evelyn Lirri
Uganda is one of the countries where a significant prevention of new infections of HIV has been registered, the latest report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV indicates.
The report released on July 29 says [...]
LRA Wants Uganda Army out of Sudan
Tuesday, 29th July, 2008
By Barbara Among
THE Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have again demanded the withdrawal of the Ugandan army from southern Sudan.
In a letter to the chief mediator, Riek Machar, copied to UN envoy Joachim Chissano, the rebels said they backed the call made by Machar last month for the UPDF to leave Sudanese territory.
“The [...]
Drought Grips Uganda
Drought grips a large part of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
10 hours ago
ROME — A UN food agency says a poor rainy season has damaged crops in large parts of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.
The Food and Agriculture Organization says although rains increased at the end of the important March-May season, the harvest of the [...]
UN sends report on peace talks to Security Council
UN chief sends report on Uganda peace talks to Security Council
www.chinaview.cn 2008-07-10 09:59:03
UNITED NATIONS, July 9 (Xinhua) — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has sent a report from the chief mediator between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) [...]