| August 21, 2007 | - The Ugandan Interfaith Rainbow Coalition Against Homosexuality called on the government to uphold its laws against gays and lesbians.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 3, 2007 | - The sex trees of Uganda faced extinction from overharvesting.
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National Geographic News
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| November 19, 2006 | - A Danish
artist named Kristian von Hornsleth was giving animals to Ugandan villagers who agreed to take his name. “Africans adopting European names for gifts—that's nothing new,” said George Sabadu Hornsleth, who received a pig. “We've been doing that since colonial times. Why do you think I'm called George?”
| Source:
Yahoo! News
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| October 11, 2006 | - In Uganda, a mob armed with spears, machetes, and clubs killed a lioness, mutilated the carcass, and imprisoned the remains.
| Source:
The Monitor via allAfrica.com
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| May 16, 2006 | - A British-Ugandan team of scientists said that the glaciers of the Rwenzori Mountains in East Africa, which the Greek geographer Ptolemy called "the mountains of the moon," could melt within the next two decades.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 3, 2006 | - The First Secretary of Rwanda was briefly arrested in Uganda after he was caught sleeping with the wife of a Ugandan businessman. "This," said a Western diplomat, "will not help matters."
| Source:
CNN.com
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| February 23, 2006 | -
Uganda held its first multiparty elections in 25 years. Yoweri Museveni, who has been president since 1986, was re-elected. Riots followed.
| Source 1:
Times Online
Source 2:
Reuters
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| October 5, 2005 | - The Church of England confirmed Dr. John Sentamu, who was born in Uganda, as the 97th Archbishop of York.
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 14, 2005 | - The Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda crossed the White Nile River into southern Sudan and attacked the city of Juba.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 30, 2005 | - There was a condom shortage in Uganda; a U.N. representative attributed the shortage to restrictions placed on U.S.-provided HIV/AIDS-prevention funds.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| March 22, 2005 | -
Ugandans marched against Bob Geldof.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 15, 2005 | - The Ugandan army admitted that it had recruited eight hundred child soldiers who had escaped from serving in the opposition Lord's Resistance Army.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 11, 2005 | - The government of Uganda was concerned about a production of the play “The Vagina Monologues.” “The author of the film is a known lesbian who lives with another woman,” said James Nsaba Buturo, the minister for information. “She worships the female sexual organ, seeing it as her god.”
| Source:
All Africa
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| December 30, 2004 | - The Ugandan government entered peace talks with the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group led by a self-proclaimed messiah, whose ranks consist largely of kidnapped children. "We could kill you all now for nothing," said a rebel spokesman, "but that's not our aim."
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 7, 2004 | -
Hippos were dying in Uganda.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| August 22, 2004 | -
Hippos were dying in Uganda.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| March 15, 2004 | - A new study of former child soldiers in Uganda found that 6 percent had seen a family member killed, 2 percent had killed a family member, and 27 percent had been obliged to drink their own urine.
| Source:
Sunday Monitor, Lancet
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| February 22, 2004 | - The Lord's Resistance Army massacred almost 200 people in Uganda.
| Source:
BBC
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| April 2, 2002 | -
In Kampala, Uganda, a woman was arrested for biting off her husband's penis and testicles after he slapped her during an argument.
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