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Combatants: A memoir of the Bush War and the Press in Uganda
The book offers a firsthand account by William Pike, who ventured into National Resistance Army (NRA) rebel-held areas to document stories during the guerrilla war that brought Yoweri Museveni to power in Uganda. Following the disputed 1980 elections in Uganda, government forces killed many, but the victims’ stories went largely untold by global media. In…
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‘Born in War, Grown up in War, Now Time for Rehabilitation’
NZARA, South Sudan, Mar 19 2013 (IPS) – Sungu Mizele, a Congolese national living in Yambio, in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, earns a living selling the fruit and vegetables that she grows in her backyard, at the local town market. On average, she earns nine dollars a day. But on a good day, when she…
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U.S. Students Design Ultrasound for Ugandan Midwives
A low-cost ultrasound system is on its way to Uganda in early summer. Produced by students at the University of Washington, it’s intended to help midwives battle the high death rate in the country’s rural areas. KAMPALA, Uganda (WOMENSENEWS)–A low-cost maternal ultrasound system that began as a class project by a group of college students…
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No places left at two Welsh universities
Two Welsh universities have declared themselves full a week before A-level results are announced and the annual clearing system gets under way. Aberystwyth University and Trinity College Carmarthen say they will not enter clearing, which matches applicants with spare university places, this year for the first time. The nine other Welsh universities say fewer clearing…
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Historic cricket ball found in drawer
A cricket ball which gave rise to one of the sport’s greatest anecdotes nearly 80 years ago has been found gathering dust in a drawer during a house clearance. Horace Fisher, a county player, became the first bowler to register a hat-trick of leg-before-wicket victims during a match between Yorkshire and Somerset in August 1932….
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Comment: an African view of British foreign aid
Ray Baguma, a journalist from the New Vision newspaper in Kampala, Uganda, was a guest at TheTimes CEO Summit in London, joining over 100 chief executives from top British companies as they discussed the future of Britain. He questioned the Chancellor on his promise not to cut spending on international aid Following the recent budget…
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Out of Africa: London is dancing to a Ghanaian beat
Ugandan journalist Raymond Baguma goes out and about in London to discover how his fellow Africans are celebrating the continent’s first World Cup Everyone in the hall holds a Ghanaian miniature flag. Upon entrance, I am directed to a desk and ordered to pay £5 and handed a flag and coupon which I am told…
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Ugandan Lawmakers Set to Vote on Marriage, Divorce
Uganda’s parliament recently passed bills on domestic violence and female genital mutilation. Now one female lawmaker hopes colleagues will approve in January long-awaited modernizations of marriage and divorce. KAMPALA, Uganda (WOMENSENEWS)–After parliament’s recent passage of key laws to protect women here, Jane Alisemera Babiha, chair of the Uganda Women Parliamentarians Association, is hoping a bill…
