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Ugandan Children Rented Out to Earn Money on Streets

KAMPALA, Uganda -- Life can be harsh in the Karamoja sub-region, with its arid climate, food shortages, and a tradition of cattle raiding. But for Christine Kokona, life's gotten worse since that night last year she boarded a bus with a stranger for this scruffy, squeezed capital of 1.6...

Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Slain After Being Named on 'Hit List'

An outspoken Ugandan gay rights campaigner, whose photo was published by a homophobic newspaper next to the headline "Hang Them," has been killed after receiving numerous death threats. David Kato, an activist with Sexual Minorities Uganda, was attacked at his home outside the capital Kampala on Wednesday afternoon....

Uganda in Bind Over Fighting al-Qaida Group

KAMPALA, Uganda (Nov. 28) -- Four months after an al-Qaida-linked group blew up two night spots here in what is among Africa's safest capital cities, Francis Semwogerere remains in a hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, shrapnel from the blast lodged in his throat and spinal column and leaving him paralyzed...

Dutch Police Arrest Brit Terror Suspect at Amsterdam Airport

(Sept. 20) -- A British man of Somali origin has been arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on suspicion of involvement with a foreign terrorist organization. The man -- who was traveling from the English city of Liverpool to Entebbe in Uganda via the Netherlands -- was arrested by Dutch military police just as his...

Are Kampala's Potholes Big Enough to Fish In?

Stephen Wandera, The Daily Monitor / FX Ssempiira

KAMPALA, Uganda (Aug. 29) -- Few cities are likely to openly contest Ugandan capital Kampala's claim to being the "Pothole Capital of the World." Some of the open pits on the city's roads have been dubbed "lakes" and would be easier to cross by boat than by car. During rush hour, vehicles inch forward one by one to take a...

kampala News From the Web

05/31/12 Build Pit-Latrines On Highways, RDC Advises Source: AllAfrica.com People who live along the Mbale-Kampala and Masaka-Kampala highways have been advised to invest in pit-latrines.
05/30/12 A Flashback of Bomb Attacks Source: AllAfrica.com One person is killed in a suspected grenade attack while watching the FUFA World Cup at Isabella pub in Makindye.
05/29/12 Kitebi Wins Kampala Chenga Challenge Source: AllAfrica.com Kitebi U-14 team will represent Kampala in the grand final of the City Tyres Chenga Challenge after edging KYB 1-0 in the final at MUBS on Saturday.
05/29/12 League Goes Down to the Wire Source: AllAfrica.com It has been a very exciting soccer season not only in Europe but it seems to have moved into Uganda's top flight division as well.
05/25/12 State Department Shows "Impunity" In Human Rights... Source: Black Star News - NY NY The U.S.-backed regime of Yoweri K. Museveni engages in gross human rights violations, including killings of civilians and torture of civilians by state security forces, such as cutting off body parts, says a bluntly-worded report by the State Department State Department.

Background on kampala

Kampala is the largest city and capital of Uganda. The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division and Lubaga Division.

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