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Marriage legislation presented for Portugal Slouching Towards Kampala: Ugandaa s Deadly Embrace of Hate When we first reported on three American anti-gay activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT ...

THE Government is sourcing for funds to finance the construction of a new $100m bridge across River Nile in Jinja.

A group of churchgoers from Trowbridge are preparing to travel to Uganda in the new year to take part in a charity project.

The rhetoric over an anti-gay bill in Uganda has reached new heights this week as the controversy received increased visibility.

Kampala A senior American Senator has warned that relations between Uganda and the United States would suffer because of a proposed Bill against homosexuality.

By Charles Musoke THE Uganda Revenue Authority is demanding taxes amounting to $675,000 from Globecast, the South African firm contracted to offer media services at the 2007 Commonwealth summit in Kampala.

Kampala Transparency International, the global anti-graft watchdog, that recently ranked Uganda as comparably more corrupt today, said President Musevenia s economy class commercial flight home from overseas will not end the cancer of extravagance in his government.

A mixture of a school tropical breeze and intense piercing heat as is characteristically brandished by the afternoon African summer skies, take centre stage and reign over the lake shores.

From there we drove through the city and on to the Kasubi Tombs , which are a world heritage site.

Uganda, the second leading producer of coffee in Africa, is blessed with some of the best coffee in the world.

Cult of Conservative Christian GOPers Backs Death Penalty for Gays With HIV >> Posted By Tumultuous 6 hours, 26 minutes ago in Political Opinion The African nation of Uganda is weighing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive men who have committed what it calls "aggravated homosexuality." As if that were not shocking enough, a ...

The group behind this is The Family, the shadowy Christian political group that boasts dozens of Congresspeople and Hillary Clinton as members.

Monitor Correspondent Dar-es-Salaam Air passengers in East Africa will each be levied $0.7 to support the Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency if the proposal is approved by the ministers of finance.

Updated 1 hr 38 min ago Hardly three months since radio big wigs Seanice Kacungira, and Walter Mong'are, resigned from their respective stations, another big shot has called it a day.

Kampala Less educated and visually impaired Ugandans will in future access information on the internet by talking through their mobile phones, a visiting British computer scientist has said.

Isaac Kawonawo ambition in the political arena won him an award allowing him to visit China annually, writes Robert Muhereza.

The stretch of 16th Street in upper Northwest D.C. where the Embassy of Uganda sits usually sees no more commotion than the rush of commuters twice daily.

Satirist Hilary Bainomugisha in his Dr Love Column made an apt summary that when you get any capital letters- CHOGM, NSSF, NFA, NAADS, URA, GAVI, GF, RRU- and add the word government, the result is corruption.

Do you have a few thousand dollars and a long weekend to spare? Then maybe you would like to become one of these foreigner homosexuals supposedly traveling to Uganda to recruit kids! Because Uganda's president is warning his country's young people that they must resist attempts to be drawn into such savagery.