New Vision, Uganda
9th November, 2008
Uganda stops sharing water data with Egypt
Gerald Tenywa and Reuben Olita
Negotiations on a new River Nile agreement have stalled following a disagreement among member states.
While Sudan and Egypt want the new treaty to give them the right to consent to the use of the Nile waters, the other [...]
Category Archives: Uganda
River Nile treaty talks hit deadlock Sunday
November 14, 2008 – 7:08 am
African free trade zone is agreed
October 22, 2008 – 8:51 pm
BBC
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
FREE TRADE BLOC MEMBERS
The 26 African countries involved in the deal are:
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Swaziland, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
The leaders of three African trading blocs [...]
ANALYSIS-Global crisis threatens vital remittances to Africa
October 12, 2008 – 4:37 pm
Reuters
Fri 10 Oct 2008
Jack Kimball
KAMPALA, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Coins clank softly and Ugandan shillings shuffle their way through counting machines at a foreign exchange bureau in downtown Kampala.
Yet in the last few months, the money-flow has been dwindling, with cash sent from Ugandans abroad via the bureau down by more than half to about [...]
Kenya dismisses tanks ‘evidence’
October 10, 2008 – 9:38 am
BBC
October 8, 2008
Contract numbers include the initials GOSS, thought to be government of South Sudan.
A Kenyan minister has denied BBC reports that the tanks seized by Somali pirates were bound for South Sudan.
According to the cargo’s manifest, obtained by the BBC, the contract included the phrase “GOSS”, widely used to mean the Government [...]
Hunger levels soar in East Africa
September 21, 2008 – 7:55 am
BBC
20 September 2008
Rising food prices have hit Ethiopia hard
Nearly 17 million people in the Horn of Africa are in urgent need of food and other aid - almost twice as many as earlier this year, the UN has said.
Some $700m (£382m) in emergency aid is needed to prevent the region descending into full-scale [...]
Senior UN official appeals for urgent funds as crisis deepens in Horn of Africa
September 20, 2008 – 7:12 am
UN News Centre
19 September 2008
The United Nations humanitarian relief chief made a passionate plea today for more funding to avoid a famine in the Horn of Africa on the scale witnessed in the 1980s.
The Horn of Africa is facing a humanitarian crisis, with as many as 17 million people, including 3 million children, in urgent [...]
Two Ugandan Peacekeepers Killed in Somalia
September 17, 2008 – 7:51 am
VOA
September 15, 2008
Alisha Ryu
Another Ugandan peacekeeper has been killed by Islamist insurgents in the Somali capital Mogadishu, the second soldier to die there in as many days. A militant Somali Islamist group called the Shabab has taken responsibility for the latest attacks on Ugandan peacekeeping troops, who make up the bulk of the African [...]
African Union to Mediate Somalia Peace Talks
August 19, 2008 – 8:05 am
VOA
Peter Clottey
15 August 2008
The African Union (AU) will be chairing a meeting between Somalia’s transitional government and opposition political parties Friday in Djibouti. The negotiators will try to achieve a full implementation of this year’s Djibouti agreement to help find a lasting solution to the widespread instability reported in the country. The [...]
Nile Basin Initiative: Countries Diverge over Water Security
August 6, 2008 – 3:20 pm
Fortune, Ethiopia
August 3, 2008
The point of departure between the countries was related to the issues to do with water security. These issues began with the two agreements signed during the colonial era that gave Egypt and Sudan extensive rights over the river’s use. Upstream countries, including the East African countries of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, [...]
Bomb kills Ugandan peacekeeper in Somalia
August 4, 2008 – 3:35 pm
AP
August 1, 2008
MOGADISHU, Somalia: A roadside bomb killed a Ugandan peacekeeper in the Somali capital on Friday, witnesses and an official said, breaking a brief period of relative quiet following a peace agreement between some of the fighting factions.
The explosion occurred near the Ugandan base at Mogadishu’s international airport, said Ugandan commander Col. Godfrey Golooba.
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