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Uganda: Accessing Health Services - Boda Boda to the Rescue!
Mbale :: Uganda | 2 months ago
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Mbale In rural Uganda, small motorcycles are being used as ambulances in a bid to make emergency healthcare accessible to those in need. During the rainy season in Bushikawa, a village in eastern Uganda, the road from Zion Community Clinic to the
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Uganda: 12 Survive Landslides in Mbale
Mbale :: Uganda | 10 months ago
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Geoffrey Mafabi, 40, his wife Mary Kakayi, 36, and their children aged between two and 20 years had retired to bed, on Wednesday, after dinner when the rock hit their house at about 9.00pm. Torrential rains had pounded the hilly terrain the entire
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Uganda: Rocky Roads for Motorists As Rains Persist
Tororo :: Uganda | 10 months ago
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to "develop and maintain" the central African country's roads. But, as made dramatically clear by landslides in June that killed eight people and left over 500 families homeless, most of the road network is in a sorry state. Our local correspondent
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Uganda: Landslide Casualty Count Corrected
Uganda :: Uganda | 10 months ago
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The report identifies the deceased persons as Patrick Bwaya, 44, Jessica Wandeka, 35, Zaina Wandeka, 4, Fred Wangoko, 10,Esau Namugoye, 6, Fred Washiwuku, 4, Night Kimono, 30, and Kevin Wandeba...Bududa district. "However, when we went on tracing
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Uganda: Cholera Cripples Bududa One Week After Landslide
Pallisa :: Uganda | 11 months ago
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Betty Mukyala, the Bududa acting district health officer disclosed in an interview on Sunday that three cholera patients from Bunakasala parish were admitted to Bushika Health Centre for treatment. Mukyala attributed the outbreak to the inadequacy of
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Uganda: Two Bodies Found, 70 Still Missing in Bududa
Kampala :: Uganda | 11 months ago
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Saturday while 70 people remain missing, according to a spokesman for the Uganda Red Cross. The landslide occurred last Tuesday in Bududa, which was drenched by a rainstorm...More than 200 police, medical workers and other rescue personnel continued
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Uganda Landslide Buries Villages; Dozens Feared Dead
Kampala :: Uganda | 11 months ago
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June 26, 2012 Rescue workers in Uganda said there are still more than 70 people missing in a landslide that happened overnight. At least 20 people are confirmed dead after three villages were destroyed in the Mount Elgon area in eastern Uganda's
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Was Rio+20 a failure of leadership?
São Paulo :: Brazil | 11 months ago
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She is a member of the Elders and the Club of Madrid and serves as Honorary President of Oxfam International. (CNN) -- I was happy to return to Rio , this beautiful city which I have visited several times. Twenty years after the first Earth Summit, I
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Uganda Begins Search for Landslide Victims
Kampala :: Uganda | 11 months ago
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James Butty June 26, 2012 Uganda has sent a rescue team to eastern Bududa district where more than a 100 people may have been killed Monday by a landslide caused by heavy rainfall. It is believed as many as three villages might have been buried. A
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Uganda hit by deadly landslide
Kampala :: Uganda | 11 months ago
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Deadly landslide strikes eastern Uganda Scores of people are feared dead after a landslide struck villages in a mountainous region of eastern Uganda, officials say. The Ugandan Red Cross told the BBC that the landslide had buried at least 15 homes in
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