WEST AFRICA: Another stab at the "resource curse"
DAKAR, 2 July 2009 (IRIN) - In Africa billions of dollars from oil, gas and mining revenues go missing, leaving populations dependent on international assistance, according to a new report on natural resource use on the continent.
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EAST AFRICA/HORN: Preparedness gaps evident as first flu cases diagnosed
NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA/KAMPALA, 2 July 2009 (IRIN) - Although some countries within East Africa and the Horn region have scaled up their influenza A(H1N1) contingency plans, overall pandemic preparedness remains "relatively inactive", a UN agency has said, as the first cases were reported in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.
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SUDAN-UGANDA: Allan, "They call me tong-tong"
JUBA, 30 June 2009 (IRIN) - Allan (not real name) was 10 when he was abducted in 1999 by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) from a refugee camp in Adjumani, northern Uganda.
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UGANDA: Health facilities stretched to breaking point
KAYUNGA, 25 June 2009 (IRIN) - Jennifer Nankinga fed her ailing child from a hospital bed in Kayunga, north of Kampala, despite a strong stench from dirty toilets that filled the air in the paediatric ward.
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UGANDA: Environmentalists point to worrying pace of deforestation
KAMPALA, 24 June 2009 (IRIN) - Uganda has lost nearly a third of its forests in the last two decades and could lose most of its tree cover in about 40 years unless measures are quickly taken to reverse the situation, environmentalists have said.
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UGANDA: Food crisis feared as subsistence farmers sell produce
KAMPALA, 19 June 2009 (IRIN) - Food shortages in parts of Uganda are approaching crisis level after subsistence farmers sold their produce for cash, officials said on 18 June.
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EAST AFRICA: Banana blight puts livelihoods at risk
KAMPALA-NAIROBI, 17 June 2009 (IRIN) - The bacterial banana Xanthomonas wilt disease will endanger the livelihoods of millions of East African farmers if left uncontrolled, according to specialists. First reported about 40 years ago in Ethiopia, BXW is endemic in most of Uganda, and has been reported in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Rwanda.
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UGANDA: Lilly Atong, “I was Joseph Kony’s wife”
GULU, 15 June 2009 (IRIN) - Lilly Atong, 26, was first abducted by Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels from Amuru district in northern Uganda in 1991 when she was 10 years old. She was made a “wife” of the LRA leader Joseph Kony but escaped in 2005. However, during the Juba peace talks in 2006 she met Kony to persuade him to release other women and children, only to be held captive again in Garamba National Park, where the rebels were hiding. She managed to escape a second time and is now living in a rehabilitation centre in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu.
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UGANDA: Eleven arrested over alleged rebel activity
GULU, 12 June 2009 (IRIN) - The Ugandan army says it has detained 11 people over alleged rebel activity in the north of the country.
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DRC-UGANDA: LRA reprisal attacks increase in the northeast
KINSHASA, 10 June 2009 (IRIN) - Civilians in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo villages are continuing to flee repeat reprisal attacks by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. The attacks have been provoked by ongoing anti-LRA operations by the DRC army in the region, according to locals.
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