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AWER Friday, October 16, 2009 (IRIN) - Ambrose Obiya, 70, and his family returned home in March after spending 13 years in a nearby camp, or protected village, because the war between the army and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army had subsided. Although life improved with the move, it was something of a hard homecoming, explains Obiya, who lost his sight in a car accident in 1978. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Friday, October 16, 2009 (IRIN) - A draft bill before the Ugandan parliament that seeks to impose stricter sanctions on homosexuality would drive men who have sex with men further underground, making it even more difficult for them to access HIV services, according to AIDS activists. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Forty years after the rights of Africa’s refugees were enshrined in a landmark convention, the continent’s leaders are due to make legal history again by adopting a new instrument to assist people displaced within the borders of their own country. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa hosts at least 11 million of the world's 25 million conflict-affected IDPs. Millions more are displaced annually by natural disasters. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Most IDPs in Africa have been forced out of their homes by conflict, either between government forces and armed opponents or between communities. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - The objectives of the Convention (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (IRIN) - Designed to be safe havens in times of disaster, health facilities are vulnerable to upheaval when catastrophe strikes, according to the UN, which is focusing on hospital safety for International Day for Disaster Reduction. (irinnews.org)

GULU Tuesday, October 13, 2009 (IRIN) - Ugandan authorities have started closing down internally displaced people’s camps in the north, but residents say they are being sent back to villages without basic services. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Friday, October 09, 2009 (IRIN) - The Allied Democratic Forces/National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF/NALU) may be a has-been rebel group that was only ever a minor player in the Great Lakes miasma, but close examination of precisely why it threw in the towel could help efforts to end the wider, multi-faceted conflict there. (irinnews.org)

BANGKOK Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa faces a double burden of obesity and hunger as millions take up increasingly sedentary lives in cities and the global financial crisis hits rural populations’ food security, nutritionists warn. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - When an earthquake strikes a town, or a building is levelled by an explosion, news footage invariably shows search and rescue teams trawling through the rubble looking for survivors. But what does it take to rescue people trapped under tons of concrete? (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - A landmine survivor in Senegal’s Casamance region on 6 October used the recent report, ‘Voices from the Ground’, based on a survey of mine victims worldwide, to remind aid agencies, Senegal’s anti-mine agency and the media of victims’ needs and governments’ responsibilities. (irinnews.org)

BANGKOK Monday, October 05, 2009 (IRIN) - Most migrants do not move from developing to developed countries, and when they do, rather than hurting host economies, they benefit them, according to a new report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). (irinnews.org)

CAPE TOWN Monday, October 05, 2009 (IRIN) - The "climate witnesses" - all poor farmers - told a special tribunal on climate change in Cape Town, South Africa, on 5 October: "We don't want any handouts from the West." Instead, they needed strategies and policies to help them overcome the effects of climate change. (irinnews.org)

Lt Col Charles Arop, a leading Ugandan LRA rebels , has decided to surrender himself to the Ugandan army.

THE Uganda National Roads Authority has threatened to cancel Zzimwe Construction Company's sh1.9b contract for the rehabilitation of the Arua-Koboko-Oraba road over poor performance.

Coffee exports from Uganda, Africa's biggest producer of the robusta variety, rose 11 percent in October, the first month of the 2009-10 season, as farmers and dealers released supplies following an improvement in prices, the state-run Uganda Coffee Development Authority said.

PADER/NAIROBI, 2 November 2009 - Most Ugandans displaced by two decades of conflict in the north have returned to their villages but a significant number are still stuck in camps and should be helped to leave, observers say.

HIRING a BMW 5 series car for eight days in the UK under the AVIS Prestige programme costs 700 euro.

It is a public-private partnership intended to reduce Uganda's dependence on imported vegetable oil while creating sustainable jobs and income for several thousand people.

Some 75 staff of Microcare Health have lost their jobs after the International Medical Group , the parent company of International Hospital Kampala , bought out the struggling health insurance provider.

Well isn't this novel: American officials are denouncing Uganda's move to possibly make homosexuality a crime that's punishable by death .

This decision, according to a letter by acting IGG Raphael Baku, resulted from false declaration of wealth by Gasasira--a violation of the Leadership Code Act which requires specified public officers to declare their incomes, assets and liabilities from time to time.

So, an NRM report finds that, on average, the Uganda voter register has had a record one million ghost voters in every election since 1996.

A parliamentary committee of inquiry set up to investigate alleged abuses during Septembera s Kampala riots is yet to begin its work, prompting some to wonder if the truth behind the violence will ever be known.

Howard Wolpe has spent the best part of three decades helping to form and implement American policies on Africa. After chairing the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years, he later served as President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Great Lakes region. (AllAfrica)

Uganda is considering an anti-counterfeit bill which analysts say will impair the country's ability to import and export cheap but effective generic medicines. Activists fear that the bill, once enacted, will deny Ugandans access to safe, effective, quality and affordable generic medication which currently forms the bulk of Uganda's medicine imports. (AllAfrica)

THE army will only be involved in the 2011 general elections to provide security, the Government has said. (AllAfrica)

EAST African Community members want to harmonise the education syllabus and curriculum at all levels in the region, the first premier and minister for East African Community Affairs (EAC), Eriya Kategaya has said. (AllAfrica)

THE Commonwealth has asked developing member states in Africa to invest in activities which reduce the impact of climate change. (AllAfrica)

Enock Ssebanga, 21, on Wednesday lost the battle to leukaemia. The picture of his scraggy body published by this newspaper on August 7, 2000 shocked the world about the boundless nastiness of some parents. Then 12, Ssebanga was accused by the step-mother, Regina Nabakoza of being a thief. His father, Charles Kayongo, capitulated to the devilish plot to incarcerate the teenager in an abandoned store for two months, starving. (AllAfrica)