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unusual facts about Busia, Uganda



1980 Uganda National League

The 1980 Uganda National League was contested by 16 teams and was won by Nile Breweries from Jinja, while COOPS, Mbarara and Bell FC were relegated.

2013 Kivu Offensive

At a meeting in Entebbe, Uganda, the Congolese government delegation left the talks after a failure to agree to a wording of a document intended to officially end the insurgency.

Andrew Mwenda

2005: With Roger Tangri: ‘Patronage Politics, Donor Reforms, and Regime Consolidation in Uganda’, African Affairs, 104, 416 (2005), 449-67.

Antoine Kambanda

In June 2011 he led five hundred Rwandan pilgrims to Namugongo, Uganda, to join the Martyrs Day ceremonies.

Bbaale County

Bbaale County is a county in the Kayunga District in Uganda.

Bebearia zonara

It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Mayumbe, Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Tshopo, Equateur, Cataractes, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba) and Uganda (Bwamba and Toro).

Bunagana

Bunagana, Uganda, a town in Kisoro District, southwestern Uganda, at the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Centre for Human Rights

The programme is a joint project of the Centre with Makerere University (Uganda), the University of Ghana, the Catholic University of Central Africa (Cameroon), the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), the American University in Cairo (Egypt), Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) and Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia).

China–Uganda relations

Among these is the oil company CNOOC, which early in 2012 acquired one third of the exploitation of Uganda's oil in the Albertine region of Uganda and will be involved in the construction of an oil refinery in the country.

East African Breweries

Its ongoing projects include the construction of an optical center in Moshi, Tanzania, the support of the Sickle Cell Association of Uganda and the donation of an Ultra Sound Machine to Kirwara Hospital in Thika, Kenya.

Economy of Uganda

Tullow Oil is being represented in the court case by Kampala Associated Advocates, whose founder is Elly Kurahanga, the President of Tullow Uganda.

Fabrice Kwizera

Kwizera began his studies at Cibitoke II Primary School but moved to Kenya with his family as a refugee in 2002, having spent time living in Uganda.

Frederick Caesar Linfield

He accompanied the other members of the Commission to Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, looking into the condition of the Colonies, their government, trade, infrastructure and social arrangements.

Geoffrey Francis Archer

Archer travelled overland from Uganda to Sudan to take up his new appointment, walking from Nimule to Rejaf and then travelling by steamer down the Bahr al Jabal to Khartoum.

Gertrude Kayaga Mulindwa

Mulindwa returned to Uganda in 2000, where she worked as head librarian for Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi, for three years.

Gulu railway station

Not to be confused with a railway station in Gulu, Uganda

James Nangwala

James Nangwala is a Ugandan lawyer notable for his defence of The Monitor (Uganda) Newspaper editors Charles Onyango-Obbo and Andrew Mwenda.

Jimmy Adar

Jimmy Adar (born 1 November 1987 in Lira) is a Ugandan middle distance runner.

John McAuliffe

He served 20 years in Uganda and acted as director-founder of the order's first mission in Gulu.

John Singleton

On October 12, 1996, John married Ghanaian actress Akosua Gyamama Busia, an actress and the daughter of Ghana's second Prime Minister Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia.

Katonga Wildlife Reserve

Katonga Wildlife Reserve is a wildlife reserve in western Uganda, along the banks of River Katonga.

Katwe

At the time of Uganda's Independence from Britain in 1962, Katwe was a center of African ingenuity, where artisans, craftsmen and technicians repaired imported electronics, automobiles, televisions, refrigerators and all kinds of appliances.

KCCA

Kampala Capital City Authority, the legal administrative entity responsible for running the day-to-day affairs of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda in East Africa

Kiro

After the final defeat of the Khalifa by the British under General Herbert Kitchener in 1898, the Nile up to the Uganda border became part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

Kyebambe III

Nyamutukura Kyebambe III of Bunyoro (died 1835), ruled Bunyoro (part of modern-day Uganda) from 1786–1835

Mackay Memorial College

Mackay College is a secondary school located in Nateete, one of Kampala's suburbs, in Lubaga Division, Kampala District, Uganda.

Mills baronets

The second Baronet was Director of Public Works of Sierra Leone between 1939 and 1942 and of Uganda between 1942 and 1947.

Mirama Hills

The Mirama Hills - Kagitumba border crossing is one of the two busiest transit points between Uganda and Rwanda; the other being the Katuna - Gatuna border crossing.

Mohamed Sheikh, Baron Sheikh

Sheikh attended Government schools in Mbale (Uganda) where he attained the Cambridge Higher School Certificate (the predecessor to an A-level).

Nyagak Power Station

West Nile is not connected to the Uganda National Electric Grid and is not expected to be connected to the national network until the planned 600 MW Karuma Power Station comes online in 2017.

Order of Katonga

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni decorated the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on 6 April 2004 in Tripoli, honouring him for his contribution to the National Resistance Army (NRA) bush struggle that liberated Uganda from dictatorship, adding that Colonel Gaddaffi has always been at the forefront of the liberation of Africa and unification of the continent.

P. minutus

Phrynobatrachus minutus, a frog species found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Religion in Uganda

Uganda has received media attention for interfaith efforts in Mbale.

Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club

David Gordon Hines was responsible for the development of co-operatives in Tanganyika and Uganda, improving the living standards of farmers in their transition from subsistence farming to cash crops.

Seifu Mekonnen

Mekonnen received awards and recognition from His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, president Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, president Idi Amin of Uganda, and president Julius Nyerere of Tanzania.

Semuto

65% of the funding will be provided by the Government of Uganda, while 35% will be provided by the Nordic Development Fund.

Seth Sendashonga

After Tanzania agreed to host Sendashonga's rebel training camps, he used his contacts with Prunier to go to Uganda and talk to Salim Saleh, President Yoweri Museveni's brother, on 3 May 1998.

Sultani Makenga

On November 7, 2013, he surrendered with hundreds of M23 fighters in Mgahinga National Park, Uganda.

The SAFE Foundation

Founded in 2005, The SAFE Foundation currently has projects in Masinagudi in the Nilgiri Hills of South India, Kumasi in Ghana, Freetown in Sierra Leone and Tororo in Uganda.

The Worst Date Ever

Bussmann traveled to Uganda and began investigating the war crimes of Joseph Kony.

To Pay the Price

To Pay the Price is a 2009 play by Peter-Adrian Cohen based in part on the letters of Israeli hero Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed in action during Operation Entebbe at Entebbe airport, by Ugandan soldiers, when the Israeli military rescued hostages after an aircraft hijacking by Palestinian terrorists.

Uganda Insurance Commission

According to its website, the mandate of the commission is "to supervise and regulate the insurance industry in Uganda." Commission offices are located in Kampala; the position of Commissioner of Insurance is currently vacant.

Uganda National Liberation Front

The groups that united to form UNLA included Kikosi Maalum led by Milton Obote (with Tito Okello and David Oyite Ojok as commanders); FRONASA led by Yoweri Museveni; Save Uganda Movement led by Akena p'Ojok, William Omaria and Ateker Ejalu; and Uganda Freedom Union with Godfrey Binaisa, Andrew Kayiira and Olara Otunnu in leading positions.

Uganda Protectorate

The income generated by cotton sales made the Buganda kingdom relatively prosperous, compared with the rest of colonial Uganda, although before World War I cotton was also being grown in the eastern regions of Busoga, Lango, and Teso.

Ugandan Bush War

The Ugandan Bush War (also known as the Luwero War, the Ugandan civil war or the Resistance War) refers to the guerrilla war waged between 1981 and 1986 in Uganda by the National Resistance Army (NRA) against the government of Milton Obote, and later that of Tito Okello.

Walter Coutts

Sir Walter Fleming Coutts, KCMG, MBE (1912–1988) was a British colonial administrator and was Uganda's last Governor before independence, from 1961–1962.

William Julius Eggeling

He regarded this as an opportunity to study the swamp vegetation and published the first of many works, "The Vegetation of Namanve Swamp, Uganda" in the Journal of Ecology in 1935.

Yitzhak Hofi

In July 1976, Hofi lobbied strongly for a rescue mission to be mounted to save the large number of Israeli passengers on a hijacked Air France airliner flown to Entebbe International Airport in Uganda.


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