2015-03-24 Uganda Health

spyghana.com   

13000 Ugandans Die Annually From Smoking Tobacco   
spyghana.com
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 13,000 people in Uganda die every year due to tobacco related illnesses. WHO says that tobacco kills more people than HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, homicide, and accidents combined in the East African region ...

2015-03-24 Uganda Science

The Guardian   

Evidence of largest asteroid impact zone on Earth found in Australian outback   
The Guardian
Scientists have discovered a giant asteroid impact zone spanning 400km in the central Australian outback, the largest ever recorded. The impact was caused by an enormous meteorite that split into two 10km-wide chunks before it slammed into Earth around ...

2015-03-24 Uganda Sports

Financial Express   

Europe deserves another World Cup place, says UEFA   
Financial Express
europe soccer, europe soccer team, europe soccer news, europe soccer ranking, europe UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino attends a news conference after a UEFA Executive Committee meeting ahead of the annual congress in Vienna. Reuters ...

2015-03-24 Uganda Entertainment

4th Luxor African Film Festival Celebrates Africa's Unique Cultural Diversity   
Indie Wire (blog)
The 4th annual Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) took place last week in Cairo, Egypt, from March 16-21, 2015. The LAFF is an annual event which screens films from across the Continent, showcasing Africa's talent in cinematography and movie production, ...

2015-03-24 Uganda Technology

Washington Times   

Why is Taylor Swift buying internet porn domains?   
TVNZ
The singer Taylor Swift, Microsoft Corp. and Harvard University are among those buying up .porn and .adult web suffixes as a pre-emptive move before those domain names become available this summer. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ...

2015-03-24 Uganda Business

News24   

Oil Firm Launches Road Safety Campaign   
AllAfrica.com
TOTAL Tanzania Limited has launched awareness campaign on road safety education to 210,435 pupils in Dar es Salaam, Kibaha and Bagamoyo in the Coast Region as part of activities under its corporate social responsibility (CSR). This was unveiled in ...

2015-03-24 Uganda World

The Star Online   

"Lee Kuan Yew was who he was..."   
The Star Online
PETALING JAYA: Singapore Member of Parliament Janil Puthucheary remembers Lee Kuan Yew as an icon whose ideas and principles still affect “how you are expected to do things, behave and be.” When it separated from Malaysia in 1965, “Singapore ...

2015-03-24 Uganda Africa

The Guardian Nigeria   

Obama, ECOWAS urge credible polls in Nigeria   
The Guardian Nigeria
UNITED States President, Mr. Barack Obama, yesterday issued a special message to Nigerians regarding the general elections due to begin on Saturday. He called for concerted efforts from all concerned to make for a peaceful and credible election.
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Lusaka Times   

6 former UNZA students nabbed   
Zambia Daily Mail
POLICE in Lusaka have arrested six former University of Zambia (UNZA) students for unlawful assembly. The six were among those who gathered at Arcades Shopping Complex to demonstrate over unemployment. Police spokesperson Charity Chanda ...

2015-03-24 Uganda Uganda

UM researchers hoping to build school in Uganda   
Detroit Free Press
Researchers from the University of Michigan are spearheading a fund-raising effort to build a community school in southwest Uganda. Nathan Chesterman and Aaron Sandel also are working to start a farm to support a lunch program at Kyakagunga Primary ...