Category: Uganda

  • Uganda Kickboxing Hero Loses Title to Australian

    Uganda Kickboxing Hero Loses Title to Australian

    Kampala (HAN) October 13, 2015 – Geeska Sports. Ugandan Umar Semata failed to defend his World Kick-Boxing Federation Super Welterweight title, losing dramatically to Australian Piotr Lagodzki. The title fight pitted two of the best fighters in the 68 kilogram division.

  • Both Uganda & Tanzania to Study Possibility of Crude Oil Pipeline

    Both Uganda & Tanzania to Study Possibility of Crude Oil Pipeline

    Kampala (HAN) October 12, 2015 – Public Diplomacy & Regional News. By Elias Biryabarema. Uganda and Tanzania have signed an agreement to explore the possibility of building a crude oil pipeline between the two countries, Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development said on Monday. The Ugandan president had indicated in August that a route through Kenya…

  • Uganda’s Army Will Leave S.Sudan

    Uganda’s Army Will Leave S.Sudan

    Juba (HAN) October 12, 2015. Public Diplomacy and Regional News. Uganda’s army will leave neighbouring South Sudan by next month, the head of the country’s armed forces said Monday.“The boys are coming home. We will be out by the first week of November,” General Katumba Wamala told reporters in the capital Kampala. Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni deployed…

  • Uganda: Business Travelers Increase Uganda's Tourism

    Uganda: Business Travelers Increase Uganda's Tourism

    Kampala (HAN) October 8, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security  Initiative News. Incoming tourist traffic to Uganda has risen by 9.9% on an annual basis. Uganda’s tourism board says that’s largely down to a steady rise in business travelers. However, as Isabel Nakirya reports, there are fewer leisure traveler coming into Uganda due to a…

  • Uganda: An Urgent Time to Review the AMISOM Mandate

    Uganda: An Urgent Time to Review the AMISOM Mandate

    Mogadishu (HAN) October 8, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security and Safety Opinions for global security Initiatives. By Asha-Kin F. Duale and Jibril Ali Aw Mohamed. The international and geopolitical dimensions of the ongoing Somali crisis are all too often given short shrift by policymakers and outside observers alike. In the global public consciousness,…

  • Uganda: What Do Somalia Sheep, Goats and Ugandan Doctors Have in Common?

    Uganda: What Do Somalia Sheep, Goats and Ugandan Doctors Have in Common?

    Kampala (HAN) October 2, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment Initiative News. The Somali Goats and sheep are northern Somalia’s principal export. The black headed sheep is especially prized in the Middle East. Special obsevation report By Charles Onyango-Obbo, this is a story about a Ugandan doctor. He has discovered some very exciting things…

  • Yoweri Museveni blamed his own commanders for being "asleep"

    Yoweri Museveni blamed his own commanders for being "asleep"

    Nairobi (HAN) September 12, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security.  The leader of Uganda conceded Saturday that Islamic extremists in Somalia may have taken some of his country’s troops as prisoners, and blamed his own commanders for being “asleep” in allowing a recent attack on an African Union base. President Yoweri Museveni said that 19 soldiers…

  • Uganda: Chinese Defense idea to deploy the equipment in volatile Somalia

    Uganda: Chinese Defense idea to deploy the equipment in volatile Somalia

    Kampala (HAN) August 13, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Infrastructure Initiative News. China donates equipment to Uganda for peacekeeping mission in Somalia.  According to China news agency, China has donated equipment worth about 5.5 million U.S. dollars to Uganda for its peacekeeping operations in war-torn Somalia, without consultation with the Somali Federal Government. The…

  • Uganda: Various instruments to eliminate trade barriers

    Uganda: Various instruments to eliminate trade barriers

    Kampala (HAN) August 9, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Infrastructure Initiative News.  Uhuru With President Yoweri Museveni has  hosted a State Banquet in Uhuru’s honour at State House, Uganda. Progressive integration holds the key to the common prosperity of citizens of the East African Community (EAC) member states. Joint efforts by EAC leaders have successfully…

  • Uganda: leader Kizza Arrested Entering USA Embassy without Permission

    Uganda: leader Kizza Arrested Entering USA Embassy without Permission

    Kampala (HAN) August 9, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security Initiative News. A key opposition leader in Uganda and former FDC Party President has been arrested and is currently detained at Nagalama Police Station in Gayaza, a Kampala suburb. Has he entered without permission any foreign embassy?,  according to the police…..Yes, he entered a USA embassy…

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