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WATCH: Peace vs justice in Uganda

In December 2003, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda referred the situation concerning the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. With the cooperation of Ugandan authorities and i...
by Diana Naoum
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Uganda and the Culture of Corruption

Uganda is and remains among the most corrupt nations in the world. To many donors and investors, Transparency International’s corruption perceptions ranking provides a basis for choice of countries where investment is li...
by Ivan Atuyambe
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Banning Uganda From The 2014 Commonwealth Games In Glasgow

There is much pressure from the international community to stop Uganda from participating in the 2014 Commonwealth games in Glasgow. This is because Uganda has undermined human rights by denying gay people the power to marry wh...
by Harriet Owalla
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Human Rights

Ugandan Court Strikes Down Anti-Gay Law On A Technicality

Uganda’s Constitutional Court has overturned an anti-gay law, which punishes homosexual acts with life in prison in some cases, six months after it was signed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The court ruling did n...
by James Propa
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Europe

Taking Aid Outside of Politics

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”@intlpolitical” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button”] The Labour Party is now ramping up a campaign, backed by the Private Members Bill, to leg...
by Damien Dacey
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Development

WATCH: Female Entrepreneurs In Uganda

In a country like Uganda, where 40% of all businesses are owned by women but 93% of the credit for all businesses goes to men, an organisation like the Ugandan Women Entrepreneurs Association Limited (UWEAL) is an unusual initi...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Africa

Kony 2014?

Nope, he’s not dead. Almost two years after the release of Jason Russell and Invisible Children’s “KONY 2012” video that made the Ugandan warlord a household name, Joseph Kony has reportedly reentered negotiations with ...
by Braden Harris
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What Happened to Kony 2012?

Nearly six months before the viral release of the video “Kony 2012” by the non-profit Invisible Children (IC), conservative American pundit Rush Limbaugh was already calling his listeners to attention to the on-goings of Ko...
by Tiffany Brittingham
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Are Children In East Africa Learning (Anything) In School?

I attended a discussion where stakeholders in education around the East Africa region and beyond were gathered to discuss a common fear: Were children in East Africa learning in school? Over 20 leaders drawn from learning ins...
by Eunice Kilonzo
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