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  • 13
    Aug
    2012
    6:36pm, EDT

    Rescuers find one Ugandan copter gunship at crash site in Mount Kenya

    Peter Greste / Reuters

    The injured captain of a Somalia-bound Ugandan attack helicopter lies next to the crash site at Mount Kenya, on Aug. 13. Uganda said on Monday the pilot and four crew of the helicopter that made an emergency landing in Kenya had been rescued but two other gunships and ten crew members were still missing in the same area.

    Reuters -- Uganda said on Monday the pilot and four crew of a Somalia-bound Ugandan attack helicopter that made an emergency landing in Kenya had been rescued but two other gunships and ten crew members were still missing in the same area.

    Poor weather early on Monday hampered a search and rescue operation for the three Russian-built Mi-24 helicopter gunships that went down in the Mount Kenya region on Sunday while en route to reinforcing AU forces in Somalia.

    Felix Kulayigye, a spokesman for the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), said one pilot managed to send out a distress signal after making an emergency landing.

    Read the full story.

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    A Somalia-bound Ugandan attack helicopter is pictured at Mount Kenya, on Aug. 13.

    Peter Greste / Reuters

    The injured captain of a Somalia-bound Ugandan attack helicopter is strapped on a stretcher at the crash site on Mount Kenya, August 13, 2012.

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    It's a shame that nations spend their resources on weapons of death and destruction as opposed to working on their economies and eliminating starvation, hunger, disease and poverty.

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  • 8
    Jul
    2012
    4:49pm, EDT

    Rebels in Congo seize towns from government forces

    Marc Hofer / AP

    Colonel Makenga, center, commander of the M23 rebel movement, tours the border town of Bunagana, Congo on Sunday. Rebels have seized several towns in volatile eastern Congo, including Bunagana on Thursday night, and Rutshuru on Sunday.

    Michele Sibiloni / AFP - Getty Images

    Rebels of the M23 group stand on a road after their troops entered the town of Rutshuru that had already been deserted by the Congolese army, near the Ugandan border on Sunday. Mutineers from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday seized control of three towns in the country's eastern Nord-Kivu province, an AFP correspondent reported today. The rebels, known as M23, took Rutshuru and the towns of Ntamugenga and Rubare, less than 10 kilometres away on the road to the provincial capital Goma, shortly after 12:00 pm local time (1000 GMT).

    Michele Sibiloni / AFP - Getty Images

    Refugees escaping from Rutshuru are on the way to Bunagana on Sunday. Sporadic gunfire could be heard in the eastern DR Congo town of Rutshuru, seized earlier in the day by renegade soldiers.

    Michele Sibiloni / AFP - Getty Images

    Refugees ecsaping from Rutshuru are on the way to Bunagana, on Sunday. Sporadic gunfire could be heard in the eastern DR Congo town of Rutshuru, seized earlier in the day by renegade soldiers.

    James Akena / Reuters

    A section of Nyakabande refugee transit camp in Kisoro town, 324 miles southwest of Uganda's capital Kampala on Sunday. Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said on Sunday they seized the town of Rutshuru in North Kivu province after government forces abandoned it.

    James Akena / Reuters

    Congolese refugees queue for porridge at the Nyakabande refugee transit camp in Kisoro town.

    Reuters reports that more than 2,000 civilians crossed from Congo into Uganda:

    An official of Uganda Red Cross said that more than two thousand people had crossed the border into Uganda in the past few days to escape the intense fighting.

    "It (the fighting) was only 40 meters away from our border so the people took off to come to the Ugandan side," said Kevin Nabutuwa Busima, assistant director of disaster management for the Uganda Red Cross.

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    Sad State Of Affairs. Prayers to the victims of the're own country.

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  • 22
    Feb
    2012
    2:41pm, EST

    Mysterious 'nodding syndrome' afflicts children in war-torn Uganda

    James Akena / Reuters

    Children suffering from nodding syndrome gather in Akoya-Lamin Omony village in Gulu district, 238 miles north of Uganda's capital of Kampala on Sunday. Nodding syndrome, which mostly affects children under 15, was first documented in Tanzania as early as 1962. However, despite extensive investigations, researchers are still largely confounded by it. Most of the fatalities attributed to the disease are the result of secondary causes. Children with nodding syndrome are prone to accidents such as drowning and burning.

    James Akena / Reuters

    Okello Reagan, 11, who is suffering from nodding syndrome, sits with his peers in Akoya-Lamin Omony village in Gulu district.

    Stringer / Reuters

    Nancy Lamwaka, 12, who is suffering from nodding syndrome, is tied to a rope as she sits out in the open in Lapul.

    Stringer / Reuters

    Nancy Lamwaka, 12, who is suffering from nodding syndrome, is tied to a rope as she walks in Lapul.

    A story from Radio France Internationale explains that the illness is characterized by repetitive dropping forward of the head, and that affected children are stunted, malnourished and dehydrated:

    The disease was first reported in northern Uganda in 2009 but health experts diagnosed it as epilepsy. The disease has attracted international attention due to the progressively worsening head nodding, cognitive decline and malnutrition among suffering children.

    "We knew that the children had this bizarre nodding but the explanation for the nodding was not known," Dr. Scott Dowell explains. "Since December 2009 we have documented the cause for the nodding itself and found that these children have a severe seizure disorder."

    Uganda’s health ministry, with the help of CDC, has conducted a series of investigations to establish the cause of the disease but has so far not come up with any results.

    According to Wikipedia's article about nodding disease, the seizures begin when the victim tries to eat food, or sometimes when he or she feels cold.

    Nodding syndrome described at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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    I would like to use this article in a paper that I'm writing and I was wondering who the author is.

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  • 2
    Dec
    2011
    11:32am, EST

    Building an African space program from the ground up

    Michelle Sibiloni / AFP - Getty Images

    Chris Nsamba, the founder of the African Space Research Program, leans against the African Skyhawk, an aircraft built to test the skills of the program's engineers, in Kampala, Uganda, on Nov. 11.

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    Standing in the yard of his mother's home in a suburb of the Ugandan capital, Chris Nsamba maps out his dream -- within the next ten years, the space enthusiast wants to launch one of his countrymen into orbit. 

    Nsamba, founder of the African Space Research Program, outlined his plans to Agence France-Presse as he showed off the African Skyhawk, an aircraft built by his team of volunteer engineers to test their skills before they begin work on a shuttle.

    Nsamba is well aware of the skepticism with which many will greet his plans, but it does not seem to affect him. At one time or another, he says, every successful scientist has been called a madman.

    Michelle Sibiloni / AFP - Getty Images

    Sarah Lugwama, center, Chris Nsamba's mother, watches the African Skyhawk jet being constructed in the back yard of her home in the Kampala suburb of Ntinda on Nov. 11.

    Watch a video report on Nsamba's team's achievements thus far by NTV Uganda:

    http://www.ntvuganda.co.ug/

    A few days after Makerere University unveiled its locally assembled electric car, the Kiira EV, another group of Ugandans continues with yet another innovative venture- that of assembling the country's first aircraft. The group that started out a year ago has now progressed and is in the final stages of putting up the aero-plane.

    Watch on YouTube

    Previously on PhotoBlog: Auto-mechanic builds DIY airplane for $395 

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    Obviously, the engineering is very important and will determine success or not, but the willingness to try is even more important, along with no fear of failure. Good luck for this first effort. I'll check back in a few years.

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  • 30
    Oct
    2011
    9:59am, EDT

    Uganda atrocity survivor: 'This is my picture'

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    Photographers and journalists are often criticized for flying in to a distant, foreign environment and telling a story in a way that makes people appear exotic, rather than empathizing with them. 'My name is Filda Adoch', a documentary project by the Italian photographer Martina Bacigalupo, is an example of a powerful, compassionate alternative.

    President Barack Obama recently ordered up to 100 U.S. military trainers into central Africa to help combat the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a band of rebels behind a campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping that has plagued northern Uganda for 20 years. Ugandan government troops have also been accused of committing human rights abuses during the conflict.

    Filda Adoch is one of those most affected by the violence from both sides. The 53 year old Ugandan has suffered the loss of a son, two husbands, and her own leg which was amputated after she stepped on a landmine. Through it all, she has displayed extraordinary spirit and endurance, continuing to take care of her five children, two godsons, ten grandchildren, her mother and a brother. 

    Martina Bacigalupo / Agence VU via Aurora Photos

    "Here I am carrying the firewood home but it looks as if the firewood on my head is something like wings that make me fly in the sky."
    Filda Adoch pictured in Along Village, Gulu District, Uganda, in May 2010.

    Martina Bacigalupo spoke with msnbc.com at the Visa pour l'image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, where her work was exhibited in September. "The project is an encounter between me and Filda," she explained, "and between our two worlds. I spent three weeks with Filda, staying in her village. The simple idea I had was to collaborate with her."

    "When you first arrive in a place everything is new and amazing. People are extraordinary. You tend to project yourself on to things -- your ideas, your culture -- and exaggerate things. It becomes about you, it's not about the people who are your subjects."

    "I tried to get beyond that. I wanted to say 'I exist, with my background, my culture, my ideas, my experience of this place. Let me put this together in my photography. Let me put it in front of you - Filda - give it to you, and then you give something back to me.’"

    "Each time I took pictures, the following day I would take them to Filda. She was involved in the editing -- sometimes she would look at a picture and say 'no, this is not me'. The images are my choice, but I listened to her. There's a picture with the cow and the chicken, for example. She really wanted this picture to be included.

    Martina Bacigalupo / Agence VU via Aurora Photos

    "This is a very true picture because everybody is in it, even the chicken. It's very clear."
    Filda Adoch with some of her family in Along Village, Gulu District, Uganda, in January 2011.

    As we watched people crowd around the exhibit in France, peering intently at Adoch's words beneath the pictures, I asked Bacigalupo how she thought Adoch would react to the scene. "She will laugh when she sees pictures of this! She'll see a bunch of white people looking at her life."

    "But I remember our first meeting. 'Go and tell my story,' she said to me. If people looking at the pictures feel a connection with Filda, that is success to me."

    And how did the photographer herself feel to see the work exhibited?

    "It was only when I looked at the pictures on the wall myself that I realized there are not many pictures where you notice that Filda's leg is missing. She doesn't cry about her lost leg, she doesn't show it. I was conscious that she was so proud of her body, her strength. She feels strong, she feels beautiful, and it is her beauty that comes across."

    See more images in the slideshow: One woman's story of surviving 20 years of conflict in Uganda.

    Photographer Martina Bacigalupo is based in Burundi, in the Great Lakes region of Africa. She produced the project with a grant she received as the winner of the Canon Female Photojournalist Award.

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    I am so humbled by these images...by this woman's story.

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  • 18
    Oct
    2011
    3:10pm, EDT

    Ugandan opposition leader arrested during protest walk

    Edward Echwalu / Reuters

    Plain cloth policemen arrest youths during the walk to work protests in Kasangati suburb near Uganda's capital kampala October 18, 2011. Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was briefly arrested on Tuesday as he took part in a "walk-to-work" protest against surging consumer prices and wasteful government spending on the outskirts of the capital Kampala, his party said.

    Edward Echwalu / Reuters

    A supporter of Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye is arrested by policemen during a "walk-to-work" protest in Kasangati suburb near Uganda's capital Kampala October 18, 2011. Ugandan police briefly arrested Besigye on Tuesday and said they would charge 15 protesters with treason in an effort to quell demonstrations against rising prices.

    Edward Echwalu / Reuters

    Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye (3rd L) and his supporters are blocked by policemen during a "walk-to-work" protest in Kasangati suburb near Uganda's capital Kampala October 18, 2011.

    Related content:

    • Uganda police break up protests, detain opposition leader
    • Ugandan president: US troops not sent in to fight
    • Blog of Ugandan photographer Edward Echwalu 

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  • 16
    Oct
    2011
    9:33am, EDT

    Room for more? Squeeze in, the world population is about to hit 7 billion

    Rajanish Kakade / AP

    A newborn baby boy is weighed on a scale at a government hospital in Mumbai, India on Oct. 5. Already the second most populous country with 1.2 billion people, India is expected to overtake China around 2030 when its population soars to an estimated 1.6 billion.

    By Natalia Jimenez, NBC News

    The world is about to get a little more crowded.

    By the end of October, it is expected that there will be 7 billion people living on the planet, according to the U.N. Population Fund. We are hitting this milestone, even though Western Europe, Japan and Russia are currently facing population declines as a result of low birthrates and aging populations. The declines cause serious concerns about who will care for and support the elderly, with a smaller number of people in the work force contributing to taxes and welfare.

    While India and China have the largest populations, it is sub-Saharan Africa that has the highest birthrates. Quickly growing countries like Nigeria, Uganda and Burundi are already struggling with the area’s limited food and water resources, combined with high poverty levels.

    For more information see: 7 population milestones for 7 billion people

    Ng Han Guan / AP

    Children play at a square in Beijing on Feb. 3, 2010. For now, China remains the most populous nation, with 1.34 billion people. In the past decade it added 73.9 million, more than the population of France or Thailand. Nonetheless, its growth has slowed dramatically and the population is projected to start shrinking in 2027. By 2050, according to some demographers, it will be smaller than it is in 2011.

    Alvaro Barrientos / AP

    Two elderly men sit on benches in the small town of La Puebla de Arganzon, northern Spain on Oct. 9. Spain used to give parents 2,500 euros ($3,300) for every newborn child to encourage families to reverse the country's low birth rate. But the checks stopped coming with Spain's austerity measures, raising the question of who will pay the bills to support the elderly in the years ahead.

    Rafiq Maqbool / AP

    Commuters hang on the outside of a local train in Mumbai, India on Oct. 10. Already the second most populous country with 1.2 billion people, India is expected to overtake China around 2030 when its population soars to an estimated 1.6 billion.

    Luca Bruno / AP

    A man uses a cane as he walks among other people through an open air market in Milan, Italy on Oct. 12. In 2010, more Italians died than were born for the fourth consecutive year according to the national statistics agency. Italy's population nonetheless grew slightly to 60.6 million due to immigration, a highly charged issue across Europe. Italy's youth minister Giorgia Meloni said earlier this year that measures to reverse the birth rate require "millions in investment" but that the resources aren't available.

    Andy Wong / AP

    Tourists visit Tiananmen Gate on China's National Day in Beijing on Oct. 1. For now, China remains the most populous nation, with 1.34 billion people. In the past decade it added 73.9 million, more than the population of France or Thailand. Nonetheless, its growth has slowed dramatically and the population is projected to start shrinking in 2027. By 2050, according to some demographers, it will be smaller than it is in 2011.

    Godfrey Olukya / AP

    Ahmed Kasadha, center foreground, on the porch of his house in Iganga, Uganda, with one of his wives and six of his 14 children on Oct. 1. A polygamist, Kasadha says large families are a sign of success and God's blessing. His father had 25 children, and he wants his own family to get bigger. Uganda, and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, have some of the world's highest birthrates - a point of concern as the world's population hits the 7 billion mark on Oct. 31, 2011 according to the U.N. Population Fund.

    Rajanish Kakade / AP

    The Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India at twilight on Oct. 9. Already the second most populous country with 1.2 billion people, India is expected to overtake China around 2030 when its population soars to an estimated 1.6 billion.

     

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    Good post David Walker.

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  • 17
    Aug
    2011
    12:26pm, EDT

    Ugandan police disperse protesters with water cannon

    James Akena / Reuters

    Anti-riot police officers use colored water to disperse opposition supporters in the Kireka area on the outskirts of Kampala on August 17. Ugandan police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse opposition supporters who had gathered in a Kampala suburb on Wednesday to mourn people killed during demonstrations earlier this year, witnesses said.

    James Akena / Reuters

    Opposition supporters run as anti-riot police officers use colored water to disperse them in Kireka area, on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala, August 17. Ugandan police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse opposition supporters who had gathered in a Kampala suburb on Wednesday to mourn people killed during demonstrations earlier this year, witnesses said.

    James Akena / Reuters

    Ugandan anti-riot police officers use coloured water to disperse opposition supporters in Kireka area, on the outskirts of the capital Kampala, August 17. Ugandan police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse opposition supporters who had gathered in a Kampala suburb on Wednesday to mourn people killed during demonstrations earlier this year, witnesses said.

    By John Makely, NBC News

     For the full story click here.

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    Why purple "water" - so they can find them later and kill them? We will know something is up when we read next about a bunch of dead purple people killed in the middle of the night. It may even be laced with some deadly chemical - it would not surprise me one bit.

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  • 10
    Aug
    2011
    6:11pm, EDT

    Ugandan authorities break up memorial service for victim killed by police forces

    Michele Sibiloni / AFP - Getty Images

    Supporters of former presidential challenger and opposition leader Kizza Besigye try to run away from Ugandan authorities in the town of Masaka in Uganda on August 10. Besigye pledged to join in with the protests at a candle-lit vigil in the town of Masaka, around 87 miles southwest of Kampala. Army and police fired teargas at a crowd of opposition supporters following the service as they tried to make their way to lay a wreath at the house where the child was shot.

    Michele Sibiloni / AFP - Getty Images

    Supporters of Kizza Besigye hold candles on August 10 during a memorial service for a victim who was killed earlier in the year by Ugandan authorities during demonstrations.

    Reuters reports from MASAKA, Uganda:

    Ugandan police fired teargas on Wednesday to disperse thousands of supporters of opposition leader Kizza Besigye who had gathered to hear his renewed calls for protests against high food and fuel prices.

    The east African nation was rocked by widespread anti-government protests in April and May, sparked by rising prices. At least nine people were killed in the government's clampdown and Besigye was arrested and badly beaten by security agents. Continue reading.

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  • 29
    Jun
    2011
    2:16pm, EDT

    EPA

    Lightning strike survivors of Runyanya primary school rest at a hospital in Kiryandongo, some 130 miles north of the capital Kampala, on Wednesday, June 29. Lightening struck the Runyanya primary school in Kiryandongo late Tuesday as pupils sheltered from a heavy downpour, instantly killing 18.

    Lightning strikes Ugandan school, kills 22 students

    By Elena Grothe

    Here is an interesting read on last night's fatal lightning strike in Uganda.

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  • 14
    May
    2011
    11:53pm, EDT

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    Vendors select potatoes at Nakasero market on May 14, in central Kampala. Newly sworn in for a fourth elected term, President Yoweri Museveni derided Uganda's political opposition as divisive opportunists during his inauguration on May 12, while also trying to soothe public anger over rising food and fuel prices that have triggered violent protests recently. Top opposition leader Kizza Besigye over the last month has been leading "walk-to-work" protests over the rising cost of food and fuel and government corruption.

    Vendors select potatoes in Uganda

    By Katie Cannon, Senior Multimedia Editor

    I like the warmth and texture of this image.

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    Love the warmth and texture? How about despair?

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  • 12
    May
    2011
    4:31pm, EDT

    Uganda's president sworn in for fourth term as police hit opposition supporters with tear gas

    Yoweri Musevini has held power in Uganda for 25 years. This series of pictures contrasts his swearing-in ceremony with images of his opposition's supporters getting tear gassed today. Here's more on this story from the Voice of America.

    Worth noting is that African mobile phone billionaire Mo Ibrahim offers a $5 million prize annually to an African leader who willingly leaves office according to his or her nation's constitution. According to this article in the New Yorker:

    "In 2006, Ibrahim unveiled the Ibrahim Prize. The Ibrahim Foundation has not granted a prize for the past two years, because the selection committee believed that no outgoing African head of state deserved it."

    Reuters

    Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (L) receives the instruments of power from Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki (R) as his wife Janet (C) looks after taking his Oath of Office during a ceremony at the Kololo Airstrip grounds in the capital Kampala, May 12, 2011. Museveni was inaugurated for a fourth term after a comfortable election win in February which Besigye, the veteran leader's closest opponent, said was rigged. Besigye and other opposition leaders have refused to recognise Museveni as president.

    Stephen Wandera / AP

    Leader of the opposition party Forum for Democratic Change Kizza Besigye, background center right, waves to supporters beside his wife Winnie Byayima, left, as he returns from Nairobi after medical treatment as his longtime political rival President Yoweri Museveni was sworn at Kololo Airstrip in the capital city Kampala, Uganda Thursday, May 12, 2011. Large crowds of supporters lined the road to welcome Besigye, who traveled to Kenya for medical treatment after a brutal arrest by security forces, who fired tear gas or pepper spray at the opposition leader at point-blank range.

    James Akena / Reuters

    Ugandan riot policemen fire coloured tear gas canisters to disperse supporters of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change during a procession to welcome their leader Kizza Besigye in the capital Kampala May 12, 2011.Ugandan police fired teargas on Thursday to disperse thousands of supporters of opposition leader Besigye while President Yoweri Museveni was being sworn in for a fourth term, Reuters witnesses said.

    Stephen Wandera / AP

    Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, center in a hat, inspects a guard after being sworn in as President at Kololo Airstrip in the capital city of Kampala Thursday, May 12, 2011. Uganda's top opposition leader flew back home Thursday and was welcomed by large crowds on the same day that the country's 25-year leader was sworn in to a fourth term.

    Tony Karumba / AFP - Getty Images

    A Ugandan military UPDF officer (L) steps on the leg of a fallen supporter of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye as a rally to welcome the opposition leader back to Kampala from Nairobi on May 12, 2011 was dispersed. Besigye returned from Kenya where he had gone for medical treatment for injuries sustained after he was attacked by state security personnel during an opposition demonstration. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni vowed to stamp out "disrupting schemes" on May 12 as he was sworn in for a fourth term while masses of opposition supporters welcomed home his rival, Kizza Besigye.

     

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