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Labor failing its own standards says Productivity Commission - The Rudd government has failed its own test for assessing major infrastructure projects, according to a new Productivity Commission analysis.

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

This decision, according to a letter by acting IGG Raphael Baku, resulted from false declaration of wealth by Gasasira--a violation of the Leadership Code Act which requires specified public officers to declare their incomes, assets and liabilities from time to time.

By Bizimungu Kisakye John Butime, former FDC national vice-chairman, has returned to the ruling NRM.

A ROAD safety campaign, organised by the Uganda Orthopedic Association, has been launched.

So, an NRM report finds that, on average, the Uganda voter register has had a record one million ghost voters in every election since 1996.

A parliamentary committee of inquiry set up to investigate alleged abuses during Septembera s Kampala riots is yet to begin its work, prompting some to wonder if the truth behind the violence will ever be known.

Burundi and Uganda have beefed up security and are closely monitoring Somalis living in their countries after hardline rebel group al Shabaab threatened to attack the east African countries' capitals.

By Cyprian Musoke The US has given Uganda a $246m development grant. The grant is aimed at improving health and the standard of living.

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center said it's received a $500,000 grant that will be used to build the first American cancer clinic and training facility in Africa.

By Patrick Jaramogi SECURITY has been beefed up in Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb with a big Somali population, following threats by the al Shabaab Islamists to attack Kampala.

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REGINA a ' Students from Notre Dame College in Wilcox and other Regina volunteers will take part in a peaceful march Saturday morning in downtown Regina to raise awareness of the conflicts in Northern Uganda, Sudan and the Congo.

The United Nations human rights chief today welcomed a new treaty to protect and assist those uprooted from their homes due to conflict and natural disasters in Africa, which accounts for nearly half of the world's 26 million internally displaced persons .

The African Union adopted a convention today that obliges member states to protect and help millions of people uprooted within their own countries because of conflict and natural disasters.

MOGADISHU Somalia's hardline al Shabaab insurgents said they will strike the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from those countries that killed at least 30 people in Mogadishu.

A TOTAL of 7,538 children in Acholi, Karamoja and Lango sub-regions have been rescued from forced labour and returned to school.

Climate change will lead to ever greater numbers of people being uprooted in Africa, the top United Nations humanitarian official said today, calling for enhanced and swift actions to reduce disaster risk and step up mitigation.

The Islamist insurgent group Shabab attacked the main airport here with mortars as the nation's president prepared to board a plane to Uganda on Thursday, setting off a series of artillery battles between government forces and insurgents that left at least 18 people dead, Somali officials said.

The African Union held its first ever special summit on refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons on Thursday in the Ugandan capital Kampala.

Uganda is playing host to a special gathering of the African Union on refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons at a conference aptly dubbed the Kampala Summit.

Ugandan boxer Badru Lusambya has returned to Kampala with a technical knockout in an Africa Boxing Union super welterweight contest against Tanzanian Idd Kigula at Little Flowers over the weekend.

Over 3,000 girls, who worked with Tri-Star Apparel Textile Company, have gone to court, seeking permission to sue the government and the company manager for terminating their services unlawfully.

THE Sudanese government has dispatched two junior ministers to attend the AU heads of state summit on refugees, returnees and internally-displaced persons, Sudan state media reported yesterday.

Ugandan authorities have started closing down internally displaced people's camps in the north, but residents say they are being sent back to villages without basic services.

By Cyprian Musoke A Special AU summit on refugees, returnees and internally displaced peoples opens in Kampala today.

For years, Charles Wesley Mumbere worked as a nurse's aide in Maryland and Pennsylvania, caring for the elderly and sick.

During a talk show on KFM on October 10, the moderator of the programme, Mr Daniel Kalinaki, asked whether the figures the President mentioned in his Independence Day speech could be seen on the ground.

Despite spending most of his time in natural disaster zones, Chippenham charity worker Ben Pickering said there is not a more rewarding job in the world.

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.

The kidnapped Irish aid worker Sharon Commins has been released from captivity in Darfur.

Forty years after the rights of Africa's refugees were enshrined in a landmark convention, the continent's leaders are due to make legal history again by adopting a new instrument to assist people displaced within the borders of their own country.

The International Criminal Court yesterday insisted that Uganda must arrest Sudanese President Gen.

This news reveals a level of homophobia which borders on the paranoid and hysterical: there is proposed legislation in the Uganda Parliament which seeks to ban homosexuality and includes the death penalty as a punishment ! From the actual text of the bill courtesy GayUganda : PART II: PROHIBITION OF HOMOSEXUALITY AND RELATED PRACTICES 3.

A Ugandan MP has introduced a bill which would impose the death penalty on HIV-positive gay men in Uganda if they have sex with another man.

An African man who worked for years as a nurse's aide in the United States, caring for the elderly and sick, is back in his homeland to be crowned king of his people in the mountains of western Uganda.

Last week President Yoweri Museveni commissioned the 13MW Bugoye Hydro Power Plant in Kasese.

The state-sanctioned , anti-gay hysteria in the East African nation of Uganda returns with deadly consequences.

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 14, 2009 .- The main treasure of Africa is its young people, but they need protection from those who would force them into lives as child soldiers or prostitutes, the bishops of that continent are affirming.

THE High Court in Masaka has rejected a forensic report by a government analyst in a notorious ritual murder case, arguing that the Police forms requesting for the tests had been altered.

Ugandan prosecutors are appealing against the acquittal of an Australian cardiologist on a charge of murdering his wife.

GULU, 14 October 2009 - The imminent closure of internally displaced persons camps in northern Uganda is causing concern among HIV-positive residents, who fear they may not have access to vital health services when they return to their villages.

Uganda could be bracing for a fresh border dispute with DR Congo after authorities in Kampala yesterday claimed the ownership of Mpondwe Market understood to be on the lattera s terrain, Daily Monitor has learnt.

Watching his sons kick around a makeshift ball made from tightly bound plastic bags, Ugandan handyman Jackson Mawa marvels at the way business has improved since he bought a solar-powered mobile phone.

A government institution yesterday indicted the national army for continuing to torture civilians despite their intensified sensitisation and awareness about human rights observance.

By Josephine Maseruka Torture tops the list of human rights abuses registered by the Uganda Human Rights Commission in 2008.

Activists have spent decades trying to get new laws passed to secure the rights of Ugandan women in the private sphere.

As Shannon O'Brien sat watching a documentary about displaced children in Uganda, tears streaming down her face, she knew she had to do something.

President Museveni's Independence Day anniversary speech at Kololo Airstrip on Friday was remarkable as far as the economy is concerned.

THE Leader of the Opposition, Prof. Morris Ogenga Latigo, survived a motor accident in which two people died yesterday.

Small flower growers in Uganda have received a Shs2.5 Billion boost from the Netherlands government to build capacities in producing for the export market.

"We won't be long. We won't wait 10 years to come. We will come back next year or in two years time." That is the promise Mr Jean Burelle, the chairman of Burelle , - one of the leading European companies in the manufacture and recycling of plastic materials - made to Uganda.

By Cyprian Musoke The number of cattle in Uganda has grown to 11.4 million, according to the results of the National Livestock Census 2008.

Kampala, Uganda - A Ugandan official says the country wants to claim a $5-million reward offered by the United States for the capture of a Rwandan genocide suspect.

By Steven Candia THE army freed Somalia's state minister for defence yesterday, a day after he was detained and questioned by security officials in Kampala.

Power rallied to a 124-62 victory in that first round fixture, a result that prompted Peter Mubanda to doubt the university sidea s ability to play topflight basketball.

Ugandan security forces have questioned Somalia's state minister for defence and will free him on Wednesday following his dramatic arrest by plainclothes officers in Kampala, Uganda's military spokesman said.

A top suspect wanted for orchestrating the killings of thousands of people in Rwanda's 1994 genocide - including children, hospital patients, priests and even an elderly and revered African queen - has been captured, police said Tuesday.

Gunmen kidnapped Somalia's state minister for defense Tuesday during a trip to the Ugandan capital, a Somali government spokesman said.

One of the most-wanted suspects in the Rwandan genocide has been arrested in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

A total of 3,500 illegal guns being burnt at the opening of the East African peace and security conference at Speke Resort Munyonyo yesterday By Henry Mukasa PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has called for a joint East African defence system to protect the region's interests against new forces of colonialism.

After the dark events of last month's riots in Kampala and the ensuing clampdown on freedom of speech, a new governance report on African countries indicates that Uganda generally performs better on observing rights.

A human rights group has urged Uganda to set up an independent inquiry into the deaths of more than 20 protesters last month because security agents may have deliberately killed some of them.

President Museveni and Kabaka Ronald Mutebi have taken the first step towards restoring the strained relationship between Buganda Kingdom and the central government.

BRITISH Council has entered a partnership to improve the quality of honey in the country.

More than a million Ugandans driven from their homes by decades of violent conflict are gradually moving back to their homeland in the north of the country thanks to an innovative United Nations-backed farming project, the Food and Agricultural Organization said today.

Motorists enjoying the Northern By-pass at Kireka intersection soon after it was commissioned yesterday By Jeff Lule THE long-awaited Northern By-pass, meant to reduce traffic in the city, has finally opened, three years late.

By Moses Mulondo THE Libyan government has dismissed reports that President Muamar Gadaffi is supporting efforts to bring down President Yoweri Museveni.

The Ugandan government should immediately order an independent investigation into the killing of unarmed persons during and after riots in Kampala on September 10 and 11, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today.

Kampala Tripoli is not covertly working with Uganda's cultural leaders to undermine or topple the ruling NRM government, Libyan ambassador Abdalla Bujeldain has said.