Uganda Travel News

By Douglas Mazune A hat-trick of Uganda Golf Union stroke-play championships that Vincent Byamukama completed in the Kinyara Open last weekend has reignited his quest for international success.

Xu Jianguo , Charge d'Affairs of China's embassy to Uganda, briefs the exhibited photos to Gaggawala Wambuzi , Uganda's minister of state for trade, at a photo exhibition at the Chinese Embassy in Kampala, capital of Uganda, Nov.

Eunice Rukundo writes about what made his idea the most outstanding. Kampala gets more crowded by the day and life has become more demanding; a disturbing combination of events if one has to keep up with lifea s quicker pace.

The security services are happy that Somalis are turning out in big numbers to register in the wake of threats by the Somali-based al-Shabaab terrorist group to make Ugandans cry for the UPDF's peacekeeping efforts in Mogadishu.

By James Bakama, Swalley Kenyi and Norman Katende LAWRENCE Mulindwa is headed for a second four-year term as Federation of Uganda Football Associations president.

The Ugandan embassies of France and the United States publicly condemned Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Monday, but officials in the African nation plan to move forward with the discriminatory legislation.

There's a friendly-looking guy sitting behind me, and I need to know something. So, I figure, I'll turn around and politely ask him my question.

Well isn't this novel: American officials are denouncing Uganda's move to possibly make homosexuality a crime that's punishable by death .

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has met Buganda district chairpersons to discuss the controversial Land Bill 2007, the regional tier system of governance and the recent riots that rocked the region for three days.

Luweero A primary school head teacher in Luweero District could lose his job amid accusations that he strip-searched five girls who were accused of stealing money from another pupil.

Vijay Patel, who owns a small chain of hotels in eastern Oregon and Washington, is buying the Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River for more than $4 million from ShoreBank Pacific, which earlier foreclosed on the picturesque property.

Kampala The US government over the weekend offered Uganda $246 million in development assistance, mainly to revive health, agriculture and trade sector activities.

Two students and a teacher from Higham Ferrers will travel to Uganda next week for an international conference.

Coming face to face with a teenage boy brandishing a high-powered rifle was not something I had pictured happening during my first visit to Uganda.

Africa's leaders meeting this week in Kampala to discuss the protection of displaced people should recognise that one of the root causes of conflict on the continent today is the denial of a right to a nationality - the right to be recognised as a person with rights and obligations in the state concerned.

By Abou Kisige THE Uganda Air Cargo Corporations, a firm owned by the defence ministry, has launched two new passenger planes.

What happens when the Kenya Airways computers go down for several consecutive hours at Entebbe airport in Uganda? You board your flight with this rather ridiculous-looking piece of paper: Posted by Shashank at 11:16 AM in Life in Africa , Reporting & Travel , Technology TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: ...

On October 9, Ugandans marked 47 years of independence. But weeks preceding the celebrations were characterised by riots in Kampala and other parts of Buganda following the central governmenta s blocking of the Kabaka from visiting Kayunga, chaos shrouding the election of a new Kyabazinga in Busoga and anxiety over oil in Bunyoro.

Kampala Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Aronda Nyakairima threw his weight behind the policea s alerts of possible terrorist attacks in the country and said yesterday that the country is a target of reprisal attacks especially because of Ugandaa s peacekeeping mission in Somalia.

President Yoweri Museveni chats with MPs during a party after the Budget speech at Kampala Serena Hotel in June - MPs increased their pay by sh7.6b this year - Total Parliament expenditure is sh122b - Average MP takes home sh14.5m a month, 4 times Uganda's per capita income - Parliament not meeting its own set targets BY LYDIA NAMUBIRU MPs ...