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U.S. Must Suspend Aid to Anti-Gay Uganda

How did this draconian Ugandan law come about? In March 2009, American anti-gay activists traveled to Uganda for a conference that pledged to “wipe out” homosexuality.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The U.S. should cut off aid to Uganda over its anti-gay crackdown.

On December 20, 2013, Uganda passed anti-gay legislation that would impose a life imprisonment for gay sex involving an HIV-positive person, acts with minors and the disabled, and repeated sex offenses among consenting adults even though Uganda already punished gay intimacy with life in prison. The legislation also sets forth a seven-year jail term for a person who conducts a marriage ceremony for same-sex couples.

What is Your Business?

What’s your business? Mine is to rave and rant on the internet and social media thereby taking a “calculated” risk to be in the bad book of both tribal and global powers.

(UGANDA) - The business of America is global or rather imperial business.

The Business of Egypt is holding rival rally. The business of Ethiopia, Uganda etc is servility.

Uganda: Continued Police Harassment of Human Rights Defenders of the Twerwaneho Listeners Radio Club

Calling out for the political freedom of Ugandans...

(SALEM) - Gerald Kankya spends a lot of time these days in court in his native Uganda.

In recent weeks Gerald Kankya, who is part of a group known as the Twerwaneho Listeners Radio Club (TLC), was interrogated over criminal allegations pertaining to “incitement to violence” and “sectarianism”.

What`s Missing in Aljazeera`s Documentary

The program highlights all aspects of Nile but focuses on the two main rival countries, Egypt and Ethiopia.

(UGANDA) - A couple of days ago I was able to watch the Aljazeera documentary titled “Struggle over the Nile.”

My first attraction to the documentary stemmed from the fact that I am a denizen of Ethiopia from where flows, according to the documentary itself, 85 percent of the water that sustains the land of the Pharaoh’s.

Rwanda Peoples Party Seeks Assistance from Museveni of Uganda

This document does not reflect the support of this party by neither the publication nor the journalist.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Rwanda People Party (RPP) has written a letter to Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni seeking to gain his influence with President Paul Kagame of Rwanda in order to gain peace talks with opposition groups in the diaspora.

The resilient and beautiful people of Rwanda deserve to be aware of all activities that opposition groups are engaging in.

The South African Movement of Yesterday is the Congo Movement of Today

Jennifer Fierberg interviews Kambale Musavuli

(WASHINGTON DC) - The war in the D.R. Congo is not improving and is actually getting worse by the day. The M23 rebel group backed by the Rwandan Military has been terrorizing the Eastern Region of the Congo for many months.

Hundreds of thousands have been displaced, raped or killed. The International Community began sanctioning Rwanda by withdrawing or freezing foreign aid payments over a UN report which provides substantial and credible evidence that Rwanda is arming and financially backing this rebel group, which Rwanda denies.

President Paul Kagame on a Special Visit to Uganda: But Why?

Kagame believes that once his rebels are well hidden in Uganda, they will be beyond the reach of the DRC authority.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Congolese Government’s reaction against the continued support of Rwanda to their enemies in the Congo has led President Kagame back to Uganda to plead for help from His Excellence Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.

He was in Uganda yet again in order to seek help because he has nowhere else to turn to this time.

The Specter of Death on Those Who Brought Same on Free Expression

“If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
-George Washington

(UGANDA) - It seems the sudden demise of Mr. Bingu WA Mutharika, president of Malawi, brought a specter of death on a number of our “venerable” African strongmen.

Many such specters are real and hanging over the head of some of our despots...

Medical Teams International Helps Children in Areas Brutalized by Joseph Kony

In 30 days, efforts are already showing results.

(PORTLAND, OR) - One month after launching a campaign to help Ugandan children affected by Nodding Syndrome in areas brutalized by Joseph Kony, Medical Teams International is seeing measurable progress among hundreds of children and their families.

Nodding Syndrome is a mysterious disease affecting more than 4,000. Specialists are working hard to determine the cause of the syndrome, which involves convulsions, malnutrition and disorientation.

Kony`s Invisible Christian Fanaticism

These groups, like the LRA, can be found making strange bedfellows – sometimes forging unexpected alliances and fighting unlikely enemies.

(LONDON ) - There is no doubt that the video 'Kony 2012' by the advocacy group Invisible Children has raised much awareness of the under-reported atrocities committed by the Ugandan rebel group the LRA.

It is also true that the video, which boasts of over 80 million views on YouTube so far, has been subjected to much - I think fair – scrutiny.