The government on 12 October announced the introduction of a new US $100 million poverty reduction programme for northern Uganda, 'The New Vision' reported.

Rampant drug abuse among students is to blame for the increasing incidence of strikes in schools in Uganda's Bushenyi district, according to media
reports.

Document explores women's relationship to political parties in South Africa and Uganda. It seeks to examine processes and consequences of transitions from authoritarianism on women's political participation in representative institutions.

A sustained campaign of terrorism over the past 15 years had had a very negative effect on Uganda, preventing it from surpassing an average gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 6.5 per cent, Ugandan envoy Fred Byendeza told a UN General Assembly debate on international terrorism on Thursday, 4 October.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic has now overtaken malaria as the leading cause of death among adults in Uganda, and has claimed over 800,000 Ugandan lives so far, according to Dr David Kihumoro Apuuli, Director-General of the Uganda Aids Commission.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Friday called on the governments of developed nations to open up their markets to goods from developing countries, the independent 'Monitor' newspaper reported.

The human rights group, Human Rights Watch, in a briefing paper, has called on the Ugandan Parliament to reject a proposed law threatening the legitimate activities of civil society.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on the Ugandan Parliament to reject a proposed law which it claimed would threaten the legitimate activities of civil society.

We know that more than 80% of the population in Uganda depends on agriculture production. For the rural population - more than the 85% of the total population - agriculture is the main way of making a living either as pure subsistence farmers or with a little semi-commercial farming. The Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA) - a central element of Uganda's poverty eradication strategy - is key to enabling the rural population to improve their livelihood and ensure food security through changing subsistence agriculture to doing farming as a business.

The Ugandan Health Ministry is considering a mandate to require that all pregnant women receive nevirapine, a drug that can reduce vertical HIV transmission by up to 50%.

Many organizations provide support services to children affected by AIDS in East and southern Africa. Yet few of these programmes have been evaluated. In Uganda, PLAN International, Makerere University, and the Horizons Program are collaborating on a study to assess the impact of an orphan support programme on the physical, educational, and emotional wellbeing of children. The researchers are also studying a different programme, called succession planning, in which children are reached before the death of the parent.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has warned three of his political rivals to abandon their plans to make war against Uganda.

The former prime minister of the western Kingdom of Toro, John Sanyu Katuramu, was sentenced to death by the High Court in Kampala on Wednesday for the murder of Toro's Prince Happy Kijanangoma, 'The New Vision' government-owned newspaper reported.

Some 15 people have been killed after Karamojong pastoralists attacked a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Katakwi District, Ugandan radio reported on Friday.

In March 2001, a capacity building, training workshop was implemented by Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Forestry (MAAIF) Planning Department funded by FAO under the programme of Integrated Support to Sustainable Development and Food Security. This historic workshop generated much consciousness on gender disaggregated data (GDD) by transforming the quality of information gathering and processing. The dynamics of gender in relation to statistical information, the institution of the family in terms of division of labour, resource allocation among men and women, boys and girls, has gained particular significance.

Uganda's Amnesty Commission chief Justice Onega has said that rebels convicted of treason are eligible for pardon under the government's amnesty initiative, the 'New Vision' reported on Wednesday.

Decentralisation is trendy. Enthusiasts in donor agencies and academia see political legitimacy, democratisation, economic efficiency, lean government and poverty reduction as likely consequences of a decentralised government. Yet, is there hard evidence that decentralisation delivers the goods?

Uganda's literacy rate has gone up by almost 10% over the last decade alone, an International Conference on Education and Poverty Eradication has heard.

The governments of Sudan and Uganda are expected to restore diplomatic relations - severed in 1996, with each of the two accusing the other of supporting the other's rebel movements - through the formal exchange of diplomats next month, according to the 'EastAfrican' newspaper.

Opposition politicians, religious groups and civil society groups have come out against the cabinet line-up of President Yoweri Museveni, endorsed by parliament on 19 July, saying it was not representative of different groups in the country, despite Museveni's promises, the 'EastAfrican' newspaper reported on Monday.