The United States Department of Justice is reported to have alerted AES Corporation about the US$10,000 bribe a contractor in the Bujagali dam construction consortium gave a Ugandan official in 1999. “When the US Department of Justice tipped AES about the bribe, the company immediately instituted a probe into the allegations,” said a source.

Women are still poorly represented in management, a report from the Federation of Uganda employers released recently says. The report shows huge disparities in gender when it comes to management positions.

The East African reports that the communications sector in Uganda is growing rapidly. According to the National Information and Communication Technology Policy, the number of mobile phone subscribers in Uganda grew from 3,500 in 1996 to the current total of 360,000.

Rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacked a United Nations-run refugee camp in north western Uganda, killing five refugees and a government soldier, the U.N. said on Tuesday.

Defence Minister Amama Mbabazi has said the army is seeking to achieve savings by eliminating wastage and corruption by instituting more efficient financial management systems. He said the army would prioritize its missions. Mbabazi was speaking at the opening of a South to South seminar meant to discuss the African experience on security sector transformations.

Two pilot antiretroviral (ARV) programmes, underway in South Africa and Uganda, have demonstrated that AIDS treatment campaigns are possible in poor communities. What's missing to scale-up these initiatives into national programmes is funding, and the political will, healthcare workers say.

There is probably no park where authorities and communities are not at loggerheads. Wild animals, which raid the villager's crops are always provoking conflict. However, Kibaale National Park in Western Uganda has made a giant leap to overcome the crop raiders.

Oxfam GB are looking to recruit a Project Manager who will review the current public health situation of IDPs & develop a proposal. The proposal is expected to address the public health concerns of IDPs as well as build the capacity of local and national governments. This programme will fit into the wider national level capacity enhancment plan in emergency preparedness & response.

Ugandan women are becoming better farmers thanks to an interactive CD-Rom. The CD gives advice about ways to improve yields from crops and livestock, how to market what they produce and helps the women think about new products they can make and sell.

President Yoweri Museveni's press secretary Mary Karooro Okurut has said the media is not doing enough to cover children's issues. Okurut made a passionate appeal to the media to come out and play a more active role in the fight against child abuse and neglect.

The female condom has not been well received because it interferes with certain cultural sexual practices, a monitoring and evaluation specialist has said.

President Museveni has called for an end to wild animal exports, saying it would be more profitable to use Uganda’s wildlife to promote tourism.

The number of children orphaned byAIDS has increased from 1.7 million in 2000 to 2 million this year despite a decline in the rate of infection, the English daily Monitor reported on Monday.

You are invited to visit a new online exhibition entitled: Women Emerging: A Tribute to Uganda. East African fine artists present works having significance to the topic of Women's Empowerment, specifically, the Uganda Women's Movement. Accompanying each image, participating artists explain and interpret visual elements within their work relating to impacts, changes, and developments for women, both personal and societal, in East Africa and beyond. Over a dozen new original artworks were created specifically for this event by such artists as Lilian Nabulime (Uganda), Yvonne Muinde (Kenya), David Kibuuka (Uganda), and Stella Atai (Uganda). Visiting this page will place you among the first to view them.

The government of Uganda and the rebel Uganda National Rescue Front (UNRF-II) signed a formal ceasefire agreement in Kuru sub-county, Yumbe District, northwestern Uganda on Saturday, with the aim of paving the way for political dialogue in the West Nile region.

WOUGNET has obtained two spots in a web design course to be conducted July
15-21, 2002 in Kampala. The training is to be conducted by OneWorld Africa - the OneWorld center in Africa. OneWorld is an international non-governmental, non profit making media NGO whose mission is to harness the democratic potential of the internet to promote human rights and sustainable development.

UNICEF and Uganda are expanding a project under which pregnant women with HIV receive drugs preventing mother-to-child transmission of the virus, New Vision reports. The project is to become part of routine prenatal care across Uganda, with all women attending prenatal clinics receiving counseling, testing and, if they are found to have HIV, free drug doses.

When talking about information and communication technologies (ICTs) being used to achieve sustainable development in African countries, what normally comes to mind is the telecommunications and utility service sectors. Charlotte Kawesa describes how the Ugandan government, with support from IICD, is incorporating ICTs in teacher training.

The sustained offensive by the Ugandan army against the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in southern Sudan, code-named Operation Iron Fist, is forcing its leader, Joseph Kony, to release and allow his noncombatant captives to return to northern Uganda, according to a senior army official.

Grandparents often have to care for AIDS orphans in developing countries. But what other problems do they face due to the epidemic? Researchers from the MRC Programme on AIDS in Uganda talked to elderly people in a rural village in south west Uganda, where half of all deaths among adults aged 13 to 44 are HIV-related.