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- Katine – One Year On
Katine, Uganda/The Guardian, London
Monday, October 20 at 12:05am
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- New images show evidence of lakes on Mars, say scientists 10:44am Jan 4
- Katine: A year in pictures 2:25am Jan 4
- Katine: A review of the year 2:25am Jan 4
Video training, a football tournament, food shortages, a mid-term review and a new reporter. We highlight key events and news stories from Katine in 2009JanuaryThe year started with a debate about the role the media plays in development...
4 January 2010: We select some key images from Katine over the last year
Imperial College team analysed latest Nasa picturesLakes of liquid water existed on Mars at a time when the planet was previously thought to be a frozen desert, new satellite images have shown.A team of British-led scientists now believes 12 mile-wide lakes of melted ice were dotted around parts of...
UK-funded research shows climate change has caused a seven-fold increase in cases of malaria on the slopes of Mount KenyaRising temperatures on the slopes of Mount Kenya have put an extra 4 million people at risk of malaria, research funded by the UK government warned today.Climate change has...
For the older generation in Katine, insurgency, cattle rustling and western influences have changed the way Christmas is celebrated in the sub-county over the past 20 yearsA successful harvest of sorghum in Katine has given some villagers a temporary respite this Christmas from the food shortages...
Unicef wants to eliminate maternal and newborn tetanus...
More fragments: an apology, and a declaration of infallibility❆ I owe Mrs Donald Allister an apology: I said she had written alternative words to Jerusalem, which her husband recommended. She has not. ...
• Facebook is the most popular destination among African users•Twitter is the ninth most visited internet site in South Africa Having swept America and conquered Europe, social networking site Facebook is now spreading rapidly through Africa.From the deserts of Libya to the plains of Tan...
After months of severe food shortages in Katine, a good harvest of sorghum has brought some relief to the sub-county...
Members of the district steering committee endorse Amref's activity plans after calling for more money to be spent on infrastructure and less on trainingDistrict officials in Katine asked the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref) for more money to be spent on infrastructure (hardware) and...
International drug purchasing organisation says initiative could save millions of lives in developing worldDrug companies will face increasing pressure to give up their monopoly rights to Aids drugs and make treatment more widely available in poor countries after an international agreement was...
A UN representative has said relying on foreign aid to achieve the Millennium Development Goals did a disservice to Africa, and has called on African governments to find alternative funding sources and clean up their actAfrican countries need to find alternative sources to money to finance their...
A dewy-eyed view of charity work in Katine may just end in debilitating dependencyPatrick Barkham's overview of the Katine experience covers the familiar mixed pattern seen throughout the Guardian's two-year African initiative (One step forward..., 6 November)...
SABMiller expands innovative HIV programme beyond supply chain to farmers' spousesSABMiller, the brewer behind Peroni and Pilsner Urquell, is stepping up its efforts to fight Aids in Africa by extending HIV testing to the spouses of farmers in Uganda...
Uganda is likely to pass a law within months that will make homosexuality a capital offence, joining 37 other countries in the continent where American evangelical Christian groups are increasingly spreading bigotry"Learned behaviour can be unlearned," said David Bahati...
