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Ugandan Children Rented Out to Earn Money on Streets
By Ioannis Gatsiounis - AOL NewsKAMPALA, Uganda -- Life can be harsh in the Karamoja sub-region, with its arid climate, food shortages, and a tradition of cattle raiding. But for Christine Kokona, life's gotten worse since that night last year she boarded a bus with a stranger for this scruffy, squeezed capital of 1.6 million. Christine doesn't know her age but appears to be about 8. She wears a tattered, zebra-print dress as she begs along Kampala Road during the day. Around dusk, she feeds mainly on rotten tomatoes and potato scraps at the Owino market then retires for the night to a small room shared by ...
Zambia: Where the T-Shirts for Losing Super Bowl Teams Go
By David Moye - AOL NewsYou'd think that there's nothing a poverty-stricken person living in Zambia, Romania or Nicaragua would have that Ben Roethlisberger might covet, right? Guess again: How about a T-shirt declaring the Pittsburgh Steelers the winners of Super Bowl XLV? Before the Feb. 6 Super Bowl, nearly 100,000 shirts declaring the Steelers the winner were printed up and ready to ship to sports stores across America just in case they won the game, and a similar number was printed up for the eventual champions, the Green Bay Packers. World Vision Jeff Fields, senior director of World Vision, holds ...
Slaying of Gay Activist Spotlights Homophobia's Rise in Uganda
By Ioannis Gatsiounis - AOL NewsKAMPALA, Uganda -- In this staunchly anti-homosexual country, Allen Mutebi has gotten used to moving -- five times within the last two years, to be exact. "They suspect. They talk. Threats are made. I move on," shrugs Mutebi, a gay man who spoke on condition that his real name not be used because he feared for his safety. AP The killing of gay right activist David Kato last month has reinforced anti-homosexual attitudes in Uganda. But following the killing of prominent gay rights activist David Kato two weeks ago, Mutebi plans to make one final move -- out of Uganda. "What ...
Where Do Dictators Go? Top Retirement Destinations for the Recently Deposed
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsEmbattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak insists he will end his days in his homeland, but that hasn't stopped rampant speculation about where he might end up in exile. Among the more bizarre rumors is a report, first aired on Al-Jazeera, that the Egyptian leader might spend his retirement years in Tel Aviv -- an unlikely prospect, even for the head of a country that recognizes the Jewish state. Saudi Arabia, given its continuing support for Mubarak, might be a likely prospect, but there's no guarantee he will go there even if he does leave Egypt. After all, exile isn't quite what it used ...
Is Murdered Gay Activist David Kato the Gabrielle Giffords of Uganda?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe bludgeoning death of gay activist David Kato this week in Uganda stunned the gay community around the world and prompted Kato's angry allies to point the finger of blame at Christian-fueled homophobia in the East African nation, and at conservative Christians in the United States who have long ties to anti-gay forces in Uganda. "David's death is a result of the hatred planted in Uganda by U.S Evangelicals in 2009," Val Kalende, the woman who heads "Freedom and Roam Uganda," a gay rights group, said in a statement. "The Ugandan Government and the so-called U.S Evangelicals must take ...
Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Slain After Being Named on 'Hit List'
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsAn outspoken Ugandan gay rights campaigner, whose photo was published by a homophobic newspaper next to the headline "Hang Them," has been killed after receiving numerous death threats. David Kato, an activist with Sexual Minorities Uganda, was attacked at his home outside the capital Kampala on Wednesday afternoon. Gerald Sentongo, an administrator with the gay rights organization, told AOL News that neighbors discovered Kato lying on the floor, with serious injuries to his head. Police believe he had been struck repeatedly with a hammer. AP David Kato, seen in this undated ...
Ugandan High Court Bans Publishing Lists of Gays
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsGay rights activists in Uganda are savoring a rare victory after the country's highest court banned the media from publishing lists of homosexuals. Monday's decision by the Ugandan high court came after gay rights activists filed a lawsuit protesting a local tabloid that has run lists of people it said are gay -- and called for them to be hanged. Justice Vincent Kibuuka Musoke ruled that a Ugandan tabloid must pay each of the three activists who filed suit $650 in damages and court costs. Marc Hofer, AFP / Getty Images Giles Muhame, managing editor of the Ugandan publication ...
Uganda's Rapping President Gets Rapped for Song
By Ioannis Gatsiounis - AOL News
KAMPALA, Uganda (Dec. 11) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has "written" a rap song ahead of the February election that's become the most popular ring tone in this hip-hop-loving nation, and now he's looking to copyright his smash hit. There's just one problem: He didn't compose the rhyme; it's a Kinyankole children's song to which Museveni has added the single line, "You want another rap?" -- which is also the song's title. The song's lyrics ignore pressing electoral issues like corruption, high unemployment and rising tribal tensions in favor of a tale about a knife that's traded for ...
Family Brings Fresh Water to Undeveloped Countries
By Elizabeth Barr - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- When Jeff Church took his wife and four kids to Africa two years ago, they not only had the trip of a lifetime, they had a life-changing experience. "We visited Ethiopia and Kenya, and, basically, we took the kids to see the poverty," Church told AOL News. Church is a San Diego-based entrepreneur who was trying to transition from what he calls "moderate business success to life significance." "At the time, my wife and I were suffering from check-writing fatigue," he said, adding that he wanted to do something more tangible than just giving money to charities. Church's daughter, ...
Uganda in Bind Over Fighting al-Qaida Group
By Ioannis Gatsiounis - AOL News
KAMPALA, Uganda (Nov. 28) -- Four months after an al-Qaida-linked group blew up two night spots here in what is among Africa's safest capital cities, Francis Semwogerere remains in a hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, shrapnel from the blast lodged in his throat and spinal column and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. His brother Emmanuel said that during one of his waking moments recently, Francis was lamenting Uganda's decision to send troops to Somalia -- the reason the Islamic rebel group al-Shabab gave for striking Kampala. "He was saying, 'The president ...
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