The Champions for an HIV-Free Generation (Champions) have asked president Museveni of the occupation Uganda government to be careful about the likely ramifincation of two contravesial NRM bills on AID and Homosexuality. Museveni’s NRM government is quietly pushing for passage of the two bills by Uganda’s rubberstamp parliament.  In a letter signed by Festus Mogae, the Champions chairman, [...]

Below is a statement from Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise executive director, Dr. Alan Bernstein.  The Enterprise (http://www.hivvaccineenterprise.org) is a global alliance of researchers, funders, policy makers and advocates that includes the African AIDS Vaccine Program, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC), the AIDS Vaccine Asian Network, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Canadian [...]

Justice Julia Sebutinde, Judge of the High Court of Uganda was scheduled to receive with an honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh on June 30, 2009, according to a press conference issued by the university press office. Julia Semambo Sebutinde, a Muganda of Njovu clan, is among several internationally distinguished [...]

Being one of the first is nothing new for University of San Diego graduate Judy Ann Kamanyi. In 2003, she graduated as part of the first class to receive a master’s degree in peace and justice studies. On May 2, she will be first graduate to receive the Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award from the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies.

Kamanyi, who lives in Uganda, has worked in the public and the…

This is a follow up to our article of December 28, 2008 on the great Buganda county of Kyadondo. This article is about the great frontier county of Kyaggwe. Last time we told you that since 1966 Uganda governments have worked hard to destroy the idea of Buganda’s counties or masaza (singular: ssaza). Presidents Obote, Amin and more recently Museveni have all established administrative units to cut up Buganda and create a system destroying the geographic integrity of Buganda and thereby make the continued existence of the kingdom impractical (see The Great County of Kyadondo, Buganda article).

Since 1966 Uganda governments have worked hard to destroy the idea of Buganda’s counties or masaza (singular: ssaza). Presidents Obote, Amin and more recently Museveni have all established administrative units to cut up Buganda and create a system destroying the geographic integrity of Buganda and thereby make the continued existence of the kingdom impractical. Such artificial administrative units included Region, Province, District, LCs and Regional Tier. Mr. Museveni’s government has gone as far as introducing the name “Central Region” to replace “Buganda”.

Traditionally, Buganda is divided into 18 counties or masaza: Buddu, Bugerere, Bulemeezi, Buluuli, Busiro, Busujju, Butambala, Buvuma, Buweekula, Gomba, Kabula, Kooki, Kyaddondo, Kyaggwe, Mawogola, Mawokota, Ssese, Ssingo.

A scout group in the UK has received a generous contribution from the Institute of Commercial Management (ICM) to help reach its fundraising target of £100,000 – all in aid of helping the scouts’ Ugandan counterparts.

According to a press release by ICM, the Nile 2010 trip to the Jinja, Uganda, is the biggest expedition of any scout group in the English town of Bournemouth so far. It will be made in 2010 by a group of more than 30 youngsters from 38th Bournemouth Scouts & Avon Explorers Group based in Winton and Iford.

The scouts will undertake youth work with Ugandan children, will camp with the Ugandan Scout Association and work on local development projects – including the building of a vocational training centre with the help of a brick-building machine.

The government of China has donated one billion Uganda Shillings for the construction of schools in Uganda, starting with Kawanda Secondary School in Mawogola County of Buganda. The Chinese Ambassador to Uganda, His Excellency Sun Heping made the official announcement at the school’s ground breaking ceremony in Sembabule, Mawogola.
According to the ambasaddor, the Republic of China [...]