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| Uganda Health | Society | Gay - Lesbian | Human rights "Uganda AIDS prevention threatened" afrol News - Over 50 Ugandan and international organisations are warning government that the "repressive" HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill, soon to be voted on in the Kampala parliament, could destroy Uganda's earlier successes in fighting back the pandemic. |
| Rwanda Human rights | Society Rwandan tea baron jailed over genocide afrol News - The former head of the government office that controlled the Rwandan tea industry was today sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a UN tribunal over his role in the country's 1994 genocide. He is to have assisted slaughtering more than 1,000 Tutsis. |
| Burundi Economy - Development Burundi gets economic reform grant afrol News - With progress made turning the Burundian economy into a post-conflict stage, the World Bank today has approved a grant of US$ 25 million to further economic reform in the country. Now, also the coffee sector is to get back on its feet. |
| Uganda Politics | Society | Human rights Panic hits Kampala after bomb scare afrol News - A bomb scare in the Uganda’s capital has brought the town to a stand still as security agencies began a search for an alleged bomb plot. The serious search comes nearly a week after Somali’s radical Islamists group Al Shabaab threatened terror attacks on the city. |
| Burundi | Tanzania Politics | Economy - Development | Human rights | Society Last Burundian refugees repatriated afrol News - The last batch of some 400 Burundian refugees returned to their homeland after 37 years, ending one of the world’s longest-running refugee sagas, the United Nations has announced. |
| Uganda Politics | Society | Human rights | Gay - Lesbian Remove death penalty on gays - Clergy afrol News - The Ugandan Clergy have appealed to the government to scrape the death penalty in the Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009 currently being debated in parliament. The clergy said the government should rather opt life imprisonment. |
| Tanzania Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development | Politics | Society Tanzanian farmers receive FAO's boost afrol News - The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is to provide Tanzania with advisory support for farmers that will help them better respond to market opportunities and thus heighten food security. |
| Kenya | World Agriculture - Nutrition | Technology | Economy - Development | Society Kenya leads Africa rural connect in third round afrol News - The Africa Rural Connect (ARC), a new online community hosted by the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), announced today the third-round winners of its online contest to select the best ideas submitted on how to help solve rural Africa’s greatest challenges in agricultural development. The first- and second-prize winners were from Kenya, while the third prize went to a resident of the United States. |
| Kenya Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Human rights Kenya probes missing funds in resettlement programme afrol News - The Kenyan authorities have launched an investigation into an alleged mismanagement of more than Sh100 million (US$1,4 million) meant for resettlement of internally displaced persons following the 2007 post elections violence. |
| Tanzania Economy - Development | Politics | Environment - Nature | Travel - Leisure | Society Natron community vows to protect the lake afrol News - Villagers around Tanzania’s Lake Natron have vowed to protect the lake and its treasure of Lesser Flamingos Phoeniconaias minor from industrial development, pointing out that their own future depends on the sustainable use of the lake. |
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