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Gaetano Kagwa-a Ugandan personality who gained fame due to his participation in the Big Brother Africa competition

Aidan Heavey

In July 2013, Heavey was dragged in to a political row over whether a donation he made to the Conservatives before the general election in 2010 was connected to William Hague’s intervention in Tullow Oil’s Ugandan tax dispute.

Heavey donated £10,000 to the party and this was believed to have been in return for Hague’s cooperation in the dispute, during which he reportedly telephoned the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to ask for Tullow Oil to be let off a £200 million capital gains tax bill.

Andrew Mwenda

2003: With Roger Tangri: “Military Corruption and Ugandan Politics since the late 1990s.” in the Review of African Political Economy No. 98, 2003.

Bukwa District

Subsequent Ugandan Governments have not developed this part of the country, starting with the colonial governments in the early part of the 20th century, through the Obote I, Idi Amin, Obote II and NRM regimes.

Canadian nationality law

In one 2008 case, a girl born to a Ugandan mother aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Boston was deemed a Canadian citizen for customs' purposes because she was born over Canada's airspace.

Emmanuel Amey Ojara

Being and Acholi and a member of the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party and fearing for his life he was forced to flee Uganda in 1977 during the height of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's rule and ended up in Kenya where he join The University of Nairobi Medical School as a lecturer in the same year.

Felix Onama

Serving as sometime secretary-general of the Ugandan People's Congress, he was one of the leaders of the Uganda National Rescue Front.

Frank Mugisha

Frank Mugisha (born 17 June 1979) is a Ugandan LGBT advocate who has won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize for his activism.

Geoffrey Oryema

In 1977, at the age of 24 and at the height of Idi Amin's power, Oryema was smuggled across the Ugandan border in the trunk of a car, after the death of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister, beginning a life in exile.

Grace Akello

Grace Akello (born 1950, Uganda) is a Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist and politician.

Holly Dignard

In 2011, she began using the name Holly Elissa Lamaro (sometimes rendered Lamaro Holly Elissa as in the Acholi tradition) after elders of the Ugandan Acholi people honoured her with the name Lamaro, which means "having a love for people, a love for humanity".

Hornsleth Village Project

The Ugandan Minister of Ethics, Dr. James Nsaba Buturo, has criticized Hornsleth as being mentally deranged, demeaning, racist, obscene, a cult leader, and a homosexual, and has stated that official diplomatic measures will be taken.

Industrial and General Insurance Company

Global Trust Bank - IGI and its Ugandan subsidiary NIC, jointly own 91% of Uganda's 15th largest bank by assets.

Jeff Oster

In 2007, Will Ackerman produced True, which features music composed by Oster and Ackerman, Ugandan vocalist Samite, Jan Pulsford and Patrick Gorman, and guest performances from Michael Manring, Philip Aaberg, Eugene Friesen, Keith Carlock, Jan Pulsford, Patrick Gorman, Samite, Derrik Jordan, Bryan Carrigan and singers Melissa Kaplan from Splashdown, and Noah Wilding.

Jon Lowenstein

He completed a project about the impact of inhaled nitric oxide on cerebral Malaria in Ugandan Children.

K-South

Also on the album is "Illektrikk Posse", featuring the Zimbabwean rapper Mizchif and the Ugandan artists Bebe Cool.

Katende Joram

He started his playing career with Ugandan side SC Villa in 2003, having graduated from high school, and he made 45 appearances for the side, before switching to other Ugandan side Police in 2006.

Kilembe Mines FC

Kilembe Mines Football Club, abbreviated as Kilembe Mines FC, is a Ugandan football club located in Kilembe, Kasese in the Rwenzori Mountains.

Koboko town

From Koboko, one can proceed along the road from Arua town to Oraba on the Ugandan border, known as Kaya on the Sudanese side, north to Yei.

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

In the second season episode "Unintended Consequences," written by series creator Aaron Sorkin, producer Maggie Jordan (portrayed by Alison Pill) reads the story many times to Daniel, a young Ugandan boy (portrayed by Demoze Talbot) in a remote orphanage while on assignment.

Mad Ice

Ahmed Mohamed Kakoyi (born in Masaka, Uganda on 8 October 1980) better known by his stage name Mad Ice is a Ugandan singer and songwriter of Raggamuffin and at a later stage with Afro-pop and Afro-soul music.

Makerere University Walter Reed Project

In May 1998, the Honorable Crispus Kiyonga, the former Ugandan Minister of Health formally invited the US Army to conduct HIV and malaria research within Uganda.

Martin Ssempa

As well, he is a special representative of the Task Force on AIDS of Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni.

Nakumatt

In November 2010, Nakumatt expanded its footprint in Kampala by acquiring Payless Supermarket, a Ugandan supermarket chain with two stores in the Kampala suburbs of Bugoloobi and Bukoto, bringing the number of stores in Uganda to three.

National Insurance Corporation

The company has a branch network in the following Ugandan towns; Arua, Busia, Fort Portal, Gulu, Jinja, Kapchorwa, Kasese, Lira, Mbarara, Malaba, Masaka, Masindi, and Mbale.

Nzara, South Sudan

Nzara served as the operational headquarters of the 4th Division of the UPDF, the Ugandan contingent in Operation Rudia II, part of the regional campaign military against the Lord's Resistance Army.

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.

Redsan

It also included hit song "Bageya", a collaboration with Ugandan artist Chameleone.

Rolf Steiner

He offered his services to Idi Amin, then commander of the Ugandan Army, who was funding the Anyanya rebel forces, and was dispatched to the war zone.

Rugby union in Uganda

In July, 2010, Ugandan rugby hit the headlines, when one of two locations hit by terrorist attacks was Kyadondo Rugby Club in Nakawa, where state-run newspaper New Vision was hosting a screening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final.

South Sudan–Uganda relations

A border dispute emerged in 2005 between communities in the Kajo-Keji county of South Sudan and the Ugandan district of Moyo.

St. Henry's College Kitovu

Paul Kawanga Ssemwogerere - Former leader of the Ugandan Democratic Party, from 1980 until 2005 and former Ugandan Presidential Candidate, 1980 & 1996

StGiNU

It also explains why the Ugandan army now known as UPDF Uganda People's Defence Force caused prolonged brutality on the civilian population, including recruitment of children, forceful displacements under the disguise of fighting LRA.

The Last King of Scotland

Amin's personal physician was, in fact, a Ugandan doctor called Paul D'Arbela.

The Wild and the Brave

The film portrays the relationship between Iain Ross, the outgoing British Chief Warden of Kidepo Valley National Park and his Ugandan replacement Paul Ssali.

Uganda AIDS Orphan Children Foundation

and with operations in four Ugandan districts: Kabale, Rukungiri, Kisoro and Kanungu, UAOCF was formed in 2004 in response to the far-reaching repercussions of the AIDS epidemic.

Uganda mangabey

Colin Groves upgraded the Ugandan population into the new species L. ugandae on February 16, 2007.

Uganda Railways Corporation

In May 2008 the Daily Monitor stated that it expected the Ugandan government to announce in that year's budget speech a government allocation of 14 billion Ugandan Shillings to buy a new train ferry to replace Kabalega.

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.

Ugandan English

The Broadway play The Vagina Monologues had a brief, but notorious, appearance on the Ugandan stage before being banned by government censors.

Violet Barungi

These FEMRITE alumni include the Macmillan Writers Prize for Africa winner Glaydah Namukasa, Ugandan Book Trust and Pan-African Literary Forum Award winner Mildred Barya, Africa Region Commonwealth Short Story Competition winner Jackee Budesta Batanda, and Caine Prize nominee Beatrice Lamwaka among others.

War Victims Day

The day included a concert with leading Ugandan musicians such as Jose Chameleone, Bobi Wine, Ragga Dee and Peter Miles.

Western Equatoria

Before the 2005 peace deal, the LRA had used Western Equatoria as a base for its operations against the Ugandan government of President Yoweri Museveni.


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