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# uganda - Thursday 21 March, 2013
Irish Aid requires an external audit system to improve standards – PAC report
The Committee of Public Accounts says Irish Aid’s external audit needs help from more qualified auditors in order to improve standards.
# uganda - Monday 11 March, 2013
Column: The way some people view African countries is inherently racist – as Kony 2012 shows
The Invisible Children campaign went viral worldwide last year – but it was deeply racist, politically motivated, and presented a Uganda that does not exist, writes Kevin McPartlan.
# uganda - Friday 22 February, 2013
11 countries to sign DR Congo peace accord: UN
Eleven African countries have been invited to sign a UN-brokered accord aiming to end more than two decades of conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
# uganda - Sunday 10 February, 2013
Chess giving hope to slum children
Self-confidence, discipline and higher ambitions for their future: some of the benefits being reaped by kids attending chess club in Kampala.
# uganda - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
Bill Gates to meet with Taoiseach, Tánaiste and President tomorrow
The Microsoft founder and philanthropist is also reported to be meeting Bono on his visit to Ireland tomorrow.
# uganda - Monday 21 January, 2013
Ugandan army says it killed top Kony bodyguard
The body guard to the notorious LRA leader had earned a grim reputation over the abduction of children.
# uganda - Saturday 19 January, 2013
Here’s how Ireland distributed €159m among nine countries last year
The amount was 12 per cent less than the nearly €180 million given to countries including Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Timor Leste and Vietnam in 2011.
# uganda - Monday 7 January, 2013
Uganda repays €4 million in Irish Aid funding that was misappropriated
The money has been handed back after it emerged last year that it had been misappropriated by officials in the Ugandan Prime Minister’s office.
# uganda - Friday 4 January, 2013
DR Congo’s M23 rebels arrive for peace talks
Rebels are meeting with the Congolese government in Uganda for peace talks – in a bid to end the long-running conflict that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
# uganda - Saturday 22 December, 2012
Labour TD calls Pope’s gay marriage comments “deeply insulting”
John Lyons claims this is second time in a week that Vatican has “targeted the international LGBT community”.
# uganda - Friday 30 November, 2012
Britain suspends aid to Rwanda over DR Congo rebel support
The UK is to withhold million in aid over concerns that Rwanda is supporting of rebels country, which is in the midst of an increasingly violent conflict.
# uganda - Friday 23 November, 2012
‘Collusion at senior levels’ of Ugandan government agencies led to aid fraud – report
The misappropriation of €4 million Irish aid in Uganda was supported by a ‘sophisticated and elaborate’ scheme.
# uganda - Thursday 22 November, 2012
Congo: Violence continues, M23 rebels press forward after gains
A rebel group seeking to overthrow the Congolese government makes gains, and millions of civilians are displaced by the conflict.
# uganda - Sunday 18 November, 2012
Column: The ‘Kill The Gays’ law is shocking – but we mustn’t act rashly
Imposing Western will too forcefully will only put more lives in danger, writes GCN editor Brian Finnegan.
# uganda - Tuesday 13 November, 2012
Irish Aid says misappropriation of funds will ‘not happen again’ – Crowe
The Sinn Féin spokesperson on Foreign Affairs said today’s assurance that the money will be fully returned to the Irish Government is to be welcomed.
Labour LGBT: Ugandan ‘kill the gays’ bill must be stopped
Fears have been raised over Uganda vowing to pass an extreme homophobic law that includes a provision prescribing the death penalty for gay people.
# uganda - Monday 5 November, 2012
Uganda commits to repaying €4m in misappropriated Irish Aid funds
Two senior government officials are on remand facing prosecution, while 17 have been suspended without pay while investigations continue into the misappropriation.
# uganda - Saturday 3 November, 2012
Aaron McKenna: Should we turn off the tap of Irish aid to other countries?
So €4m in Irish aid may have been misappropriated in Uganda. Can we afford to keep giving – or can we afford to stop?
# uganda - Wednesday 31 October, 2012
‘Millions of lives’ could be saved by new global subsidy for malaria drugs
The first independent evaluation of the international scheme shows promise.
# uganda - Monday 29 October, 2012
Public Accounts Committee member wants probe into Irish overseas aid
Fine Gael TD Simon Harris has called for the powerful Dáil committee to investigate Irish overseas aid following the misappropriation of millions of euro sent to Uganda.
# uganda - Sunday 28 October, 2012
Ugandan prime minister: ‘I didn’t receive misappropriated Irish money’
Amama Mbabazi says while some Irish funds were “fraudulently paid to private accounts”, some was used for its intended aims.
# uganda - Friday 26 October, 2012
Poll: Should Ireland distribute foreign aid while it is in a bailout?
With the government suspending aid to Uganda yesterday, we’re asking should Ireland be distributing foreign aid while still under the terms of a bailout?
Irish Aid: Tánaiste “absolutely disgusted” after alleged Uganda aid fraud
It is believed that around €4 million of Irish aid money may have been misappropriated by the Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda.
# uganda - Thursday 25 October, 2012
Ireland suspends aid to Uganda after report suggests €4m fraud
Eamon Gilmore has launched an immediate investigation amid suggestions the office of the Prime Minister misappropriated funds.
# uganda - Thursday 16 August, 2012
Reward: Marathon winner Kiprotich promised new house for parents
The 23-year-old was also presented with €65,000 and a promotion in his job as a prison warden. Not bad for just over two hours work.
# uganda - Sunday 12 August, 2012
Deadly Ebola outbreak ‘under control’ in Uganda, says MSF
Medical teams are hopeful that the threat has subsided as there have been no confirmed Ebola deaths in the past 12 days.
# uganda - Saturday 4 August, 2012
Uganda: “Lots of people don’t really understand what Ebola is”
What is it like to be on the frontline of fighting the Ugandan Ebola outbreak? A Médecins Sans Frontières emergency coordinator explains.
# uganda - Friday 3 August, 2012
Hillary Clinton hopes for improved drones to find Kony
The US Secretary General was also focused on preserving a fragile peace between Sudan and South Sudan on her two day agenda of talks in East Africa.
# uganda - Tuesday 31 July, 2012
Government to fund hospital’s HIV outreach programme in Kenya
On his tour of Africa, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore announces €50,000 in funding for a hospital which also offers paediatric heart surgery.
# uganda - Monday 30 July, 2012
14 dead in first major outbreak of Ebola since 2009
Nine of the fourteen deaths occurred in a single household in Uganda.
# uganda - Sunday 3 June, 2012
Government commits €50k to rehabilitate former child soldiers
The Minister of State Joe Costello announced the funding on a visit to Sierra Leone yesterday.
# uganda - Sunday 13 May, 2012
LRA commander captured by Ugandan soldiers
Ugandan officials say Caesar Acellam was one of Joseph Kony’s top strategists in the LRA.
# uganda - Monday 30 April, 2012
Uganda suggests Joseph Kony getting Sudan support
Ugandan officials have repeated past claims that rebel leader Joseph Kony has been receiving support from the Sudanese government.
# uganda - Tuesday 24 April, 2012
Department says it received two emails in relation to ‘Kony 2012’ campaign
The campaign to bring the alleged Ugandan warlord to justice was not the subject of any mass lobbying in Ireland.
# uganda - Friday 20 April, 2012
EU backs plans to end Joseph Kony’s “campaign of terror”
Catherine Ashton declares the EU’s support for a Joint Operations Centre to combat the Lord’s Resistance Army.
# uganda - Tuesday 10 April, 2012
Makers of Kony video ‘spied for Ugandan government’ – WikiLeaks
A US embassy cable published by WikiLeaks suggests a former child soldier was arrested after an Invisible Children tip-off.
# uganda - Tuesday 3 April, 2012
Sequel to Kony 2012 viral video expected today
The ‘Stop Kony’ video has been viewed over 86 million times on YouTube since its release last month.
# uganda - Friday 23 March, 2012
Tánaiste is ‘greatly concerned’ that Joseph Kony remains at large
The African Union has said it will step up the hunt for the Ugandan rebel leader and his men.
# uganda - Saturday 17 March, 2012
‘Exhaustion and dehydration’ behind Kony 2012 campaigner’s hospitalisation
Jason Russell’s wife says that he “did some irrational things brought on by extreme exhaustion and dehydration”.
# uganda - Friday 9 March, 2012
Filmmaker defends Kony 2012 campaign as video reaches over 56m hits
Critics have suggested an ulterior motive for Jason Russell’s campaign to bring alleged war criminal Joseph Kony to justice through a viral video campaign.
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