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UgandAbout – agosto 2009
Last Updated on lunedì, 31 agosto 2009 11:03 Written by Simona Meneghelli lunedì, 31 agosto 2009 11:03
Eccovi alcune notizie sull’Uganda e sull’Africa recuperate da internet nell’agosto 2009:
BROADBAND INTERNET FINALLY COMES TO EASTERN AFRICA
27 july 2009
MAKERERE UNIVERSITY RAISES TUITION FEES
10 august 2009
IN UGANDA HIV INFECTION SOARS
11 august 2009
CONGO ORIENTALE: BILANCI A UN ANNO DA PRIMI ATTACCHI DEI RIBELLI
12 agosto 2009
UGANDA: AUMENTATE DEL 40% LE TASSE UNIVERSITARIE
13 agosto 2009
L’AFRICA È UFFICIALMENTE ZONA LIBERA DA ARMI NUCLEARI
14 agosto 2009
IN UGANDA STUDENTS PROTEST FEES HIKE
17 august 2009
YOUTH URGED TO DO PRACTICAL COURSES TUESDAY
18 august 2009
UGANDA, LA GUERRA A FUMETTI
20 august 2009
UGANDA: 98 PERCENT OF KIDS DO NOT GO TO NURSERY
26 august 2009
DOPO SUDAN, CRESCE MINACCIA RIBELLI LRA ANCHE IN CONGO E CENTRAFRICA
28 august 2009
BROADBAND INTERNET FINALLY COMES TO EASTERN AFRICA
27 july 2009
Cheap, fast broadband internet has finally come to Eastern Africa, with an undersea fibre optic cable linking five countries to Europe and Asia going live Thursday.
The $600m fibre optic cable, which is the region’s first, was activated simultaneously in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa and Mozambique. From these countries, it will be extended to landlocked countries like Rwanda, Burundi and Ethiopia.
This new connection is expected to lower the cost of internet services and telephone calls drastically, potentially boosting trade and economic development in the region. The cable project is owned by SEACOM, a private consortium with about 75 per cent ownership by African investors.
“Today is a historic day for Africa and marks the dawn of a new era for communications between the continent and the rest of the world” SEACOM’s chief executive, Brian Herlihy, said in a statement.
The commissioning of the 17,000 km undersea cable relieves East Africa of its undesirable tag as the only inhabited coastline in the world without a connection to the global broadband map. It links the five African countries with London, Marseille and Mumbai.
Many African countries have been relying on satellite connections, which yield slow, sporadic internet services that limit connectivity with the rest of the world, and make the use of services like Google Earth and YouTube an uphill task.
In Tanzania, President Jakaya Kikwete personally led the commissioning ceremony. “The arrival of this cable signals the beginning of a new era in the telecommunications sector. History has been made” President Kikwete declared in a live telecast from Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.
Initially scheduled for June 27, the launch of the SEACOM cable was delayed for a month because of increased activity by Somali pirates on the Indian Ocean. Local internet service providers in the region have been busy laying interconnecting fibre-optic cables across and between cities over the past year, hoping to begin offering broadband internet services soon after the cable launch.
However, some of them say it may take up to September before the service becomes ubiquitous.
“The fibre optic cable is expensive to lay, so service providers will initially serve areas they think have potential” said Tom Omariba, the Managing Director of UUNet-Kenya.
fonte www.afronline.org – by Philip Emase (NewsfromAfrica)
MAKERERE UNIVERSITY RAISES TUITION FEES
10 august 2009
Makerere University Council has increased the tuition fees for private students for the new academic year, which opens next week. The council, which sat last month, also set tighter deadlines for the payment of tuition and other fees.
The tuition increment, which cuts across all courses, is of over sh350,000, according to the university’s new fees structure.
Tuition for Bachelor of Mass Communication, for instance, was increased from sh600,000 to sh980,000 per semester. Bachelor of Commerce increased from sh800,000 to sh1.12m per semester.
Students pursuing Bachelor of Social Sciences will pay sh700,000 per semester, up from sh450,000, while those admitted for Bachelor of Education (Arts) have to part with sh672,000, up from sh450,000. Bachelor of Law will cost sh1.26m, up from sh950,000.
On top of the tuition fee, private students are charged sh363,500 every year as contribution towards the research fund, registration, library, exams, development and technology fees.
Another sh100,000 is charged per semester for internship or field attachment and sh33,000 per academic year for the identity card, academic gown, and the rules and caution book.
The university academic registrar, Amos Olar Odur, yesterday said the fees increment was intended to enable the institution run more efficiently.
“Tuition was increased. This was done by the University Council as per the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act” Odur said on phone. He, however, clarified that the increment would not affect continuing students. “We normally don’t make changes that affect students in the middle of their courses” he explained.
The council, which is the institution’s highest policy and decision-making organ, also resolved that a private student must pay all tuition fees in full at the beginning of the semester or else they lose the vacancy.
“Every privately-sponsored student is obliged to pay all the functional fees and the tuition fees before he/she can be registered and allowed to attend classes as well as being issued with the university identity card” the council said in a statement. “Payment of all tuition fees must be completed within three weeks of a semester or else your place will be forfeited to another candidate.”
The resolutions, said a reliable source, were taken to avert a financial crisis which recently prompted the management to seek bank overdrafts to pay staff salaries.
“There was no money to pay the university staff last month. We had to direct the management to apply for an overdraft of over sh4b. The council, therefore, realised it was necessary to increase tuition” a source told The New Vision.
The 87-year-old university has been cash-strapped since 2006. The council’s repeated applications for increased funding from the Government have been futile.
In 2007, the university operated on a budgetary deficit of over sh40b, forcing the management to use lecturers’ pension funds to pay salaries. This provoked the academic staff association into a sit-down strike that led to the closure of the university for over two months.
A report by the council’s finance subcommittee, chaired by bursar Ben Byambabzi, last year indicated that the university was at risk of closing down due to a sh50b budget deficit amidst debts. The committee then suggested a 40% increment in tuition. But the Government blocked the move when the council had just started debating the proposal.
Makerere’s current fees structure was designed in 1996 and had not been reviewed since. The university has been the cheapest in East Africa, according to former vice-chancellor Livingstone Luboobi.
fonte http://allafrica.com – Francis Kagolo
IN UGANDA HIV INFECTION SOARS
11 august 2009
The number of people getting infected with the HIV virus is increasing each year, with 130,000 Ugandans contracting it annually. This was revealed in Kampala yesterday at the launch of a campaign aimed at encouraging people to test for HIV/AIDS and avoid the pandemic.
The director general of the Uganda AIDS Commission, Dr. Kihumuro Apuuli, presided over the function. Under the campaign which will run from August to December, people will get free counseling and testing.
Kihumuro urged the Government to reinvent new strategies to fight HIV/AIDS. “To defeat HIV/AIDS, we need to start a new social movement to fight it. We have seen people’s behaviour change inthe past. That is why we managed to reduce the prevalence to the current 6.4%. It can be done again if we are to achieve our goal of reducing the disease.” Kihumuro said.
Dr. Peninah Iutung, the East and West Africa Bureau Chief for the AIDS Health Care Foundation, said HIV-positive people will be referred to health centers where they can access anti-retroviral treatment.
The campaign, dubbed ‘Stay Alive/Love Condoms’ is being coordinated by Care Uganda, a non-governmental organisation in partnership with the Ministry of Health.
fonte http://allafrica.com - Charles Ariko
CONGO ORIENTALE: BILANCI A UN ANNO DA PRIMI ATTACCHI DEI RIBELLI
12 agosto 2009
Arrivano ormai con cadenza quotidiana notizie di violenze nella provincia orientale del Congo (estremo nord-est del paese) dove da un anno incursioni attribuite ai ribelli dell’Esercito di resistenza del Signore (Lord’s resistance army, Lra) stanno causando vittime e un crescente numero di sfollati. Tra le aree più colpite c’è quella intorno a Dungu, uno dei principali centri della regione, dove negli ultimi giorni due persone sono state uccise e nove rapite.
A peggiorare la situazione la presenza di altri gruppi armati e la possibilità di scontri tra i ribelli e l’esercito, che è sostenuto dalla locale missione dell’Onu (Monuc) e da soldati ugandesi. Secondo l’ultimo bilancio diffuso alcuni giorni fa dall’alto commissariato dell’Onu per i rifugiati (Acnur/Unhcr), a causa del perdurante stato d’insicurezza tra luglio e agosto almeno 12.000 persone hanno dovuto abbandonare i rispettivi luoghi di origine portando a 270.000 il numero totale degli sfollati, una parte dei quali è riparata oltre confine, in Sud Sudan.
Dopo aver spostato le loro basi all’interno della Repubblica democratica del Congo, in fuga dall’Uganda, dallo scorso Settembre i ribelli Lra si sono resi protagonisti di centinaia di attacchi ai danni della popolazione e i civili uccisi sono stati circa 1300. Incursioni del Lra sono state segnalate anche in Sudan e nella Repubblica Centrafricana.
fonte www.misna.org
UGANDA: AUMENTATE DEL 40% LE TASSE UNIVERSITARIE
13 agosto 2009
Sono state aumentate del 40% le tasse d’iscrizione a tutte le università pubbliche: secondo mezzi d’informazione locali, la misura riguarda solo chi si iscriverà quest’anno per la prima volta. Il governo ha giustificato il provvedimento sostenendo che è dovuto all’aumento dell’inflazione e alla crisi economica globale.
fonte www.misna.org
L’AFRICA È UFFICIALMENTE ZONA LIBERA DA ARMI NUCLEARI
14 agosto 2009
È entrato in vigore ieri il trattato di Pelindaba, che stabilisce la denuclearizzazione del continente africano dichiarandolo “zona libera da armi nucleari“.
Ne dà notizia l’Istituto sudafricano di studi per la sicurezza (Iss), specificando che, dopo la ratifica del trattato da parte del Burundi il mese scorso, sono in tutto 28 i paesi africani che hanno convalidato l’accordo. Sottoscritto dall’Unione Africana (UA) e dai 53 paesi del continente nel 1996, il trattato di Pelindaba (una località vicino Pretoria, in Sudafrica) prevede che gli stati firmatari si impegnino a non acquisire armamenti nucleari, impedirne il transito sul proprio territorio e contribuire a circoscriverne la diffusione.
Il Sudafrica è l’unico paese del continente che aveva avviato programmi militari di ricerca nucleare; le armi, sviluppate proprio in una base a Pelindaba durante il periodo dell’apartheid, sono state smantellate volontariamente nei primi anni ‘90 durante la transizione alla democrazia. “L’entrata in vigore del trattato di Pelindaba – si legge in una nota dell’Iss – conferma la volontà di tutti i paesi dell’Africa di contribuire al disarmo internazionale e mettere al bando le armi nucleari“.
fonte www.misna.org
IN UGANDA STUDENTS PROTEST FEES HIKE
17 august 2009
Students in public universities have asked President Yoweri Museveni to halt the 40% increment in fees. The petition, filed by student leaders, requires the President to respond within two weeks. Spokesperson Kenneth Massette said: “We are waiting for his response.”
Massette made the remarks while addressing journalists at Makerere University yesterday. The affected five public universities are Makerere, Gulu, Kyambogo, Mbarara and Busitema.
In a joint statement, the university guild presidents expressed “deep dissatisfaction and disappointment” with the Government for endorsing the “exorbitant increment of 40% of tuition fees in public universities“.
Makerere, Kyambogo, Mbarara, Busitema and Gulu universities recently introduced new fees structures, which caused a public outcry. In a reaction, state minister for education Rukutana Mwesigwa justified the increment of fees, which he said had not been changed for two decades despite inflation.
But the the students noted that education, which they described as a fundamental right, would become a preserve for the rich. Massette stressed that the Government should promote free and compulsory basic education by ensuring that every citizen can attain university education.
Robert Okware, the Makerere guild president, said the increment was unreasonable. He noted the timing was also poor since most students had picked admission forms which did not state the new fees structure.
“This leaves them with no alternatives as admissions to private universities have closed” Okware added. The guild bosses further noted that said they were not consulted before the fees hike as required by law.
However, Makerere spokesman Gilbert Kadilo said student guilds are represented by council and senate. He said the process of raising fees started with the previous guild presidents.
fonte http://allafrica.com – Jeff Lule
YOUTH URGED TO DO PRACTICAL COURSES TUESDAY
18 august 2009
The youth have been urged to take up practical course as a way of being job-creators to earn a livelihood.
The managing director of Centre for Empowerment and Development, America Masiko, said most parents, teachers and students were taken up by academic success rather than earning a living. “The world is becoming more competitive and education today doesn’t guarantee employment. There is need to utilise your skills and talents” Masiko told the youth.
She was speaking at the opening of a five-day youth workshop at the centre’s offices in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, on Monday. “If you have a talent in sports, business or music, take it up as a profession. People have proved these professions to be more successful than academics” Masiko noted.
She urged the youth to build their self-esteem, saying it would help them control their lives. “Each one of you is born special. If you do not believe you are worthy of success, you won’t have the confidence to achieve it” Masiko said.
She further noted that the youth had many abilities that they were not aware of, adding that this limited their achievements. Masiko urged the youth to avoid alcohol, sex and drugs during their school holidays to protect themselves from diseases.
fonte www.newvision.co.ug – Roderick Ahimbazwe
UGANDA, LA GUERRA A FUMETTI
20 august 2009
Che il fumetto potesse essere un buon mezzo espressivo per raccontare la complessità e la follia della guerra, ce lo aveva già dimostrato Ari Folman con l’ottimo Valzer con Bashir.
E’ come se il realismo artificiale che si viene a creare su una tavola da disegno scavasse quella distanza necessaria fra noi e le cose che ci permette di sopportarle e di viverle. Il lettore può sempre rifugiarsi nell’artificiosità del disegno per allontanare da sé le atrocità della storia, salvo poi recuperarle attraverso la serietà della sceneggiatura. Esattamente come avviene in Unknown Soldier, dove la violenza viene usata per raccontare la guerra civile, che ha insanguinato l’Uganda fra il 1987 e il 2002.
Unknown Soldier è un personaggio dal volto sfigurato, sempre coperto dalle bende, creato originariamente nel 1966 per raccontare la seconda guerra mondiale. Joshua Dysart, lo sceneggiatore, e Alberto Ponticelli, il disegnatore, ne hanno recuperato i caratteri esteriori per catapultarlo in una dimensione completamente diversa: da agente segreto campione di mimetismo nel fumetto degli anni sessanta, Unknown Soldier diventa il dottor Lwanga Moses, convinto pacifista, desideroso di tornare nel Paese, che ha lasciato da bambino, per dare una mano al suo popolo.
La storia inizia con il conferimento a Lwanga di un premio umanitario e finisce con l’uccisione di un ragazzo da parte dello stesso, nel momento in cui la violenza diventa la soluzione ad ogni problema anche per lui. Perché Unknow Soldier non tratta solo della brutalità esteriore della guerra, ma anche delle trasformazioni che avvengono all’interno delle persone.
Dysert racconta di essersi interessato agli estremisti religiosi dopo l’attentato dell’11 settembre alle Torri Gemelle. In questo modo è avvenuto il suo incontro con Joseph Kony, capo dei ribelli ugandesi del Lord’s Resistance Army e ‘messaggero’ di Dio in terra, dotato di poteri soprannaturali. Ma la documentazione trovata su internet non poteva essere sufficiente per raccontare una guerra che in 17 anni ha lasciato a terra ventimila persone. Così all’inizio del 2007, dopo che nell’estate precedente era stato concordato un cessate il fuoco, Dysart parte per l’Uganda dove vive con il popolo Acholi e visita Kampala ed Entebbe.
Ciò che porta a casa sono storie troppo forti per essere raccontate in un fumetto e una seria dedizione per la causa che lo induce a scrivere anche un blog informatissimo e aggiornatissimo sull’Uganda. Oltre a mille foto utilizzate da Ponticelli per ricreare ambienti e personaggi.
Nel suo blog Dysart scrive: “Io ho visto persone al punto più basso della loro vita, poi sono tornato a casa e ho trasformato il tutto in un fumetto di guerra e azione. Facciamo del nostro meglio per non sfruttare semplicemente la vita di queste persone, ma nel mio cuore non sono sicuro che questa sia la cosa giusta da fare”.
In altri momenti, invece, lo sceneggiatore si mostra più fiducioso nel fine del suo lavoro: “Questo fumetto è una sorta di calvario per me. Ogni mese è una battaglia scriverlo. Viaggiare nell’Africa orientale, vivere con gli Alcholi, i Lango e i Baganda, stare nelle loro case, mangiare alla loro tavola, assistere alla gioia e ai dispiaceri della loro vita… Nulla nella mia vita può essere paragonato a queste esperienze e far rientrare tutta questa umanità viva dentro ad un libro di guerra, non è facile. Alcune volte mi domando se è la cosa giusta da fare, ma il fatto che la gente legga questo blog, lasci un commento e si faccia coinvolgere nella discussione… mi fa sperare che la decisone commerciale che abbiamo preso con questo libro ci porti davvero a diffondere nuove idee sull’Africa“.
Considerando l’argomento e l’impostazione, così diversa dal solito racconto di guerra, il libro ha venduto discretamente ed è stato accolto positivamente dalla critica che lo ha giudicato “allo stesso tempo rilevante per la vita reale e visceralmente entusiasmante“, al punto da nominarlo per un Eisner Awards, gli oscar dei fumetti, nella categoria ‘nuove storie’.
Il prossimo 26 agosto la Vertigo, la casa editrice che pubblica il fumetto, farà uscire la ristampa della serie completa in edizione da collezione. E se si dovesse decidere per far proseguire la storia, Dysart ha promesso di voler raccontare anche i finanziamenti che arrivano ai ribelli, il ruolo delle corporation nel conflitto e i test farmaceutici illegali che vengono condotti sulle popolazioni indigene.
Non resta da sperare che le vendite vadano bene e che la casa editrice scelga di andare avanti.
fonte http://it.peacereporter.net – Chiara Pracchi
UGANDA: 98 PERCENT OF KIDS DO NOT GO TO NURSERY
26 august 2009
Only 2% of Ugandan children receive early childhood education, a report has said.
The latest Education for All Global Monitoring Report shows that Uganda has a gross enrolment in nursery schools of 2.1%. This is a decline from the 1999 figure which put the enrolment at 4%.
A recent World Bank paper showed that early childhood education led to better school performance.
The paper showed that if pre-schooling is increased by 40%, repetition rates would reduce from 20 to 15% and school completion rates would be enhanced by 13%.
In a meeting by legislators and ministry officials at Speke Hotel Munyonyo, the United Nations Children’s Fund country representative, Margo O’Sullivan, called upon the Government to pay keen attention to nursery education. “It is difficult and expensive to compensate for educational and social disadvantages among older children and adults than providing early childhood education” O’Sullivan said.
She noted that the completion rate at primary level in Uganda for both boys and girls was 43% and the drop out rate was 57% though government does not invest in pre-primary schools, it has a partnership with private owners of such establishments. Due to the absence of enough primary schools in rural areas parents are tempted to send underage children to primary schools, the early childhood specialist, Ndayidde Hajara, said recently.
Today, most nursery schools countrywide are neither licensed nor registered. Uganda started Universal Primary Education in 1997. Some educationists say this might increase the neglect of pre-primary education. They argue that most parents look for only free primary education.
fonte http://allafrica.com – Conan Businge
DOPO SUDAN, CRESCE MINACCIA RIBELLI LRA ANCHE IN CONGO E CENTRAFRICA
28 august 2009
Attacchi dei ribelli ugandesi del Lord’s Resistance Army (Lra, Esercito di resistenza del Signore) hanno causato nelle ultime tre settimane lo sfollamento di circa 125.000 persone lungo i confini di Repubblica Centrafricana, Congo e Sud Sudan.
A rivelarlo è l’Alto commissariato Onu per i rifugiati (Unhcr/Acnur) secondo cui alcune agenzie umanitarie sono state costrette a ritirare il proprio personale dalla zona a causa della crescente insicurezza. Negli ultimi mesi i ribelli avrebbero sequestrato migliaia di bambini, per arruolarli nelle loro milizie, oltre ad aver saccheggiato e incendiato diverse decine di villaggi.
“Solo nel mese di giugno i ribelli dell’Lra hanno condotto 55 attacchi in Congo, contro altrettanti centri abitati che sono stati saccheggiati e devastati” ha denunciato il portavoce di Unhcr David Nthengwe, durante una conferenza stampa a Goma, nel Nord-Kivu. Sul capo della guida dell’Lra, Joseph Kony, pendono 33 capi d’accusa tra cui crimini di guerra e contro l’umanità.
Un’operazione militare congiunta ugandese-congolese tra dicembre e marzo ha portato alla distruzione delle basi che i ribelli avevano nelle fitte foreste dell’est del Congo, spingendo per l’Lra a dividersi in piccoli gruppi che col passare del tempo hanno allargato il loro spettro d’azione, originariamente limitato al Congo, anche al Sud Sudan e al Centrafrica.
fonte www.misna.org
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UgandAbout – febbraio 2009
Last Updated on martedì, 5 maggio 2009 04:04 Written by Simona Meneghelli martedì, 5 maggio 2009 04:04
Eccovi alcune notizie sull’Uganda e sull’Africa recuperate da internet nel febbraio 2009:
QUALITY UNIVERSITY EDUCATION A MUST
1 march 2009
THE POOR ARE EDGED OUT RIGHT FROM PRIMARY LEVEL
24 february 2009
CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONFLICTS
23 february 2009
QUALITY UNIVERSITY EDUCATION A MUST
1 march 2009
Over 57,000 candidates who sat the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) last year qualify to join public universities, according to the results just released by the Uganda National Examinations Board.
Out of the 89,921 candidates, 65% got two principle passes, and are therefore, eligible for joining university. But the Government would continue sponsoring only 4,000 students at university, according to the education minister Namirembe Bitamazire. The rest of students would join other tertiary institutions as well as private universities. The five public universities are Makerere, Mbarara, Kyambogo, Gulu and Busitema. But existing universities in the country can only absorb 25,000 students.
Up to the mid 1980s, university education was fully state-sponsored in Uganda. But the number of students accessing university education then was too limited. To increase university intake, the Government introduced private sponsorship, established more public universities – bringing the number to five currently – and allowed the private universities.
Following these government interventions, the number of students in universities has remarkably grown.
However, a lot still needs to be done to enhance accessibility, affordability, relevance and quality of university education. The Government should increase on the scholarships, particularly to enable the brilliant but poor students’ access higher education. It should further expedite the implementation of the students’ loan scheme.
The Government took the right decision to allow establishment of private universities in the country. But the standards of some of the private universities still leaves a lot to be desired. The education ministry and the National Council for Higher Education should rigorously monitor universities to ensure they meet international standards.
Universities must also be accorded tax concessions. We must avoid a situation where degrees awarded by the country’s universities are not recognised even by local employers. Uganda must strive to position itself in the region and globally as a centre of academic excellence.
fonte www.allafrica.com
THE POOR ARE EDGED OUT RIGHT FROM PRIMARY LEVEL
24 february 2009
According to the study, the poor cannot afford to take their children to institutions of higher learning, yet their children also miss out on government scholarships.
The resident of Kibanyi Village in Luweero district is an S.6 dropout whose dream was to become a doctor. But her father passed away when she was young and her mother, a peasant, could not afford to pay her university tuition. At Bamunanika High School, where Namuli sat her Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education in 2004, she emerged the third best candidate with Aggregate 9.
Like Namuli, thousands of students from poor families miss out on getting government scholarships every year, yet they cannot afford to pay university fees. The students who get the scholarships usually come from rich families and would have attended the best primary and secondary schools.
Every year, the Government sponsors 4,000 best performing students in its five public universities. Over 70% of such students come from well-to-do families, according to a recent report released recently by the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE).
This contradicts the overall objective of government scholarships, which is to enable children from poor families go to university.
The report titled ‘Access And Equity To Higher Education In Uganda: Whose Children Attend University And Are Paid For By The State?’ details findings of two studies conducted by the NCHE executive director Prof. Abdul Kasozi two years ago.
The surveys were conducted in Makerere, Kyambogo, Gulu, Mbarara, Uganda Christian University Mukono, and Uganda Martyrs University. In the studies, social economic indicators instead of cash income were used as proxy for income. A total of 665 government-sponsored students in public universities and 749 private-sponsored ones were interviewed.
Why is it like this?
Experts say the rich can afford to take their children to the best schools, unlike students from poor families. Besides, a rich child has everything in place for them to revise well. According to the studies, children from homes with electricity comprised 41%, while those from homes that depend on kerosene were 31%.
About 33.1% of the students have parents who get salaries compared to 20.8% in the general population. Thus, the ‘rich’ child is assured of constant school fees, unlike the poor one who has to struggle to get even a meal.
Due to the disparities in income, the number of students admitted to the public universities also depends on the region. According to the report, the western region leads with 31%, followed by central with 30.1%.
Students from districts like Katakwi, Iganga, Oyam and Lira are underprivileged. Only 21.9% of university students are from the east.
The north, which is also the poorest region according to this year’s poverty report by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, has only 82,739 of the 486,700 students in the four public universities.
Way forward
Kasozi urges the Government to employ affirmative action to fight regional inequality in accessing higher education. He also calls for an increment in tuition fees charged by public universities to curb under-funding.
“In order to deliver quality education, universities need to be given more autonomy to collect and spend more, provided they are accountable”.
Kasozi says the Government should introduce a loan scheme to help students from poor families who cannot afford to pay high fees. The loan scheme has been successful in Kenya and Ghana; it can work in Uganda, too, he says. “You can only protect the poor by putting structures in society that help them send their children to school” Kasozi stresses.
fonte www.allafrica.com – Francis Kagolo (Kampala)
CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONFLICTS
23 february 2009
Karamoja, a semi-arid region in northeast Uganda, is in crisis: a potent mix of the impact of climate change – 14 droughts in 25 years – border conflicts, armed cattle-raids, and difficult development and sustainability issues are the main features, delegates at a recent conference on Climate Change and Security in Africa learned.
The humanitarian impact has meant that the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has an ongoing food aid programme in Karamoja for the last 40 years. The situation in Karamoja was highlighted to raise awareness about the complex links between climate change, conflicts, migration and human security among pastoral communities in Africa by the France-based Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED), a relief NGO which organised the conference.
Shortages of food and water brought on by the impact of climate change could escalate existing conflicts and generate others, warned a new report prepared by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and its Expert Advisory Group.
The report called for more research on how the impact of climate change could increase vulnerability to conflict, and how early warning could address the issue.
The humanitarian crisis in Karamoja has long been forgotten, said David Knaute, another speaker from ACTED. “Since the Great Famine of 1980, during which 20 percent of the total population perished, several consecutive droughts have elevated the risk of food insecurity”.
WFP is feeding at least 970,000 of the 1.1 million people in Karamoja. “Insecurity problems and the presence of weapons have also caused serious displacement and humanitarian challenges, with hundreds of women and children fleeing to major Uganda towns (Kampala, Mbale, Jinja, Soroti) to make a living by begging, and most vulnerable populations settling near urban centres with no source of income” said Knaute.
No direct links
Much research is still required to establish the links between climate change, human security, migration, and conflicts, said Fabrice Renaud, Associate Director of the UN University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security.
A 2007 UNEP report on the conflict in Sudan noted that the competition for natural resources brought about by climate change was “considered to be directly related to the conflict in the region, as desertification has added significantly to the stress on the livelihoods of pastoralist societies, forcing them to move south to find pasture”.
A number of analysts and reports have focused on pastoral communities, who live in some of the harshest conditions, and on the rising incidence of conflicts in such areas, which have often been attributed to competition for increasingly scarce natural resources due to global warming.
About 40 percent of Africa’s land is used by pastoral farmers, who are often semi-nomadic. Romain Benicchio, of Oxfam development agency, noted that dry and pastoralist areas occupy 70 percent of the Horn of Africa.
Pastoralists represent 10 percent of the total population in Kenya, 20 percent in Uganda and 10 percent in Tanzania, and most are extremely poor: around 90 percent of such communities in Kenya live in poverty compared to the national average of 50 percent, he said.
Countries in the Sahel belt have also suffered several long and recurring droughts in the past few decades, and the region has recently been dubbed the ‘ground zero’ of climate change.
A multifaceted solution is needed
Years of political and economic marginalization, inappropriate development policies, a rise in abnormal climate events, and competition for natural resources had affected the ability of pastoralists to maintain a sustainable livelihood, said Benicchio. He called for weather insurance, improved market access, microfinance and cash-transfer social welfare programmes to build resilience.
Governments would need to rehabilitate the natural resource base, and address tensions related to access and tenure. A policy initiative by the African Union hopes to address some of the issues. Wario, who heads the Specialist Task Force for the African Union Pastoralist Policy Framework for Africa, said they were in the process of establishing an agenda for the framework.
fonte www.allafrica.com
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UgandAbout – gennaio 2009
Last Updated on martedì, 5 maggio 2009 03:26 Written by Simona Meneghelli martedì, 5 maggio 2009 03:26
Eccovi alcune notizie sull’Uganda e sull’Africa recuperate da internet nel gennaio 2009:
SCHOOLS HIKE FEES FOR 2009 ACADEMIC YEAR TUESDAY
27 january 2009
MENINGITE, VACCINAZIONI DI MASSA PER BLOCCARE EPIDEMIA
23 gennaio 2009
LA CORTE SUPREMA RESPINGE UN APPELLO PER L’ABOLIZIONE DELLA PENA DI MORTE
21 gennaio 2009
UN’AUTO ECOLOGICA TARGATA MAKERERE
20 gennaio 2009
MAKERERE UNIVERSITY TO PHASE OUT FACULTIES
19 january 2009
UGANDA, INTERNET USERS GROW
19 january 2009
IL MOVIMENTO RIBELLE DI JOSPEH KONY CHIEDE UN CESSATE IL FUOCO
12 gennaio 2009
PROGRESSI NELL’ISTRUZIONE MA ANCORA 160 MILIONI DI ANALFABETI
9 gennaio 2009
RIBELLI UGANDESI ACCUSATI DI ATTACCHI A VILLAGGI NEL SUD
8 gennaio 2009
KONY REBELS RAPE 80 CONGOLESE WOMEN
7 january 2009
SCHOOLS HIKE FEES FOR 2009 ACADEMIC YEAR TUESDAY
27 january 2009
A number of secondary schools, particularly those with the boarding sections, have increased school fees for the new academic year which opens on Monday. According to a survey carried out by The New Vision, some government and private secondary schools raised their fees by about sh50,000.
The head teachers said the adjustment was due to increasing food prices and other services.
Even those that have not yet increased have applied to the ministry of education to allow them increase fees. These include Kibibi SS, Gombe SS, St. Mary’s College Kisubi, Ntare School, Ndejje SS, Bweranyangi Girls, Trinity College Nabingo, Nyakasura School, Makerere college, Wanyange Girls, Maryhill, St. Peter’s Nsambya and Our Lady Gayaza High school.
Other schools that have applied to increase fees are Kawempe Muslim, Iganga SS, Teso College Aloet, Mengo SS and Lubiri SS. Nabisunsa Girls increased fees at the beginning of the third term in 2008. Mt. St. Mary’s Namagunga, Gayaza High School and St Henry’s College Kitovu have not yet decided to increase fees although officials there said the “schools are struggling to cope“.
Several head teachers said the ministry had delayed to respond to their requests to raise the money.
“We put in our proposal but there was no response. We are waiting for our annual general meeting in March to take a decision” said Brother Edward Bukenya, the head teacher of St. Mary’s College Kisubi.
The head teacher of Kibuli SS, Ibrahim Matovu, said: “The ministry has allowed us to increase by sh50,000 effective this year”.
Kyambogo College has increased by sh20,000, said Anne Lubanga, the head teacher. The head teacher of Kings College Budo yesterday said: “We did not increase our fees this year because we increased in 2007″.
Many head teachers’ declined to discuss the issue, saying it was the decision of the board of governors. Others were not keen to divulge the amount by which they had increased.
The acting permanent secretary in the education ministry, Dr. John Mbabazi, yesterday said the ministry had allowed some schools to increase their fees. “In cases where there was a genuine reason, we allowed the school to increase. Those who are complaining have not received a favourable response which would allow them to increase” he stated.
Mbabazi said the ministry has been handling the issue of school fees on a “case by case basis”. The policy requires head teachers to seek approval from the permanent secretary before they can increase fees.
The head teachers who have not increased fees complained that the money available could only feed the students. “The school can no longer carry out any development projects such as construction. The fees paid can only pay salaries, feed the students and run the school. We cannot afford to build even a small classroom” said Hajji Mubiru of Kibibi SS.
The head teacher of Greenhill Academy, Veronica Maraka, said: “We are waiting for a board meeting to decide whether or not to increase fees”.
Over the last year, schools were forced to increase fees following the recent increase in food prices.
fonte www.newvision.co.ug – By Fortunate Ahimbisibwe and Raymond Baguma
MENINGITE, VACCINAZIONI DI MASSA PER BLOCCARE EPIDEMIA
23 gennaio 2009
Una massiccia operazione di vaccinazione contro la meningite è stata annunciata dal ministero della Sanità di Kampala nei distretti di Arua, Hoima e Masindi (nel nord-ovest del paese) dove è in corso una virulenta epidemia di meningite che, secondo gli ultimi dati, ha ucciso almeno 35 persone, contagiandone circa 200. Secondo le informazioni diffuse dal ministero la zona più colpita risulta essere quella di Arua, con 150 casi e 18 decessi, seguita dal distretto di Hoima (47 casi e 13 decessi) e quella di Masindi, con 14 casi e 4 morti.
In una nota diffusa nei giorni scorsi, l’Organizzazione mondiale della Sanità (Oms) ha confermato le preoccupazioni per l’epidemia in corso, precisando che in almeno un caso (il distretto di Hoima) è stato superato il livello di allarme di cinque casi ogni 1000 abitanti e ha lanciato l’allarme anche sulla regione della Karamoja, dove la diffusione della malattia potrebbe essere favorita dall’attuale stagione secca. La vaccinazione di massa nei tre distretti dovrebbe iniziare in settimana, ma ancora non è stata fissata una data certa.
L’Uganda si trova nella cosiddetta ‘cintura della meningite’, la regione sub-sahariana che si estende dal Senegal all’Etiopia abitata da 300 milioni di persone dove tra dicembre e giugno, durante la stagione secca, si presentano virulente epidemie di questa infezione delle membrane cerebrali.
fonte www.misna.org
LA CORTE SUPREMA RESPINGE UN APPELLO PER L’ABOLIZIONE DELLA PENA DI MORTE
21 gennaio 2009
La Corte Suprema ugandese ha respinto oggi un appello per l’abolizione della pena di morte, firmato da oltre quattrocento condannati e supportato da diverse organizzazioni per la difesa dei diritti umani.
Il codice penale dell’Uganda prevede la pena capitale per quindici reati. Il 10 giugno 2005 la Corte Suprema aveva ritenuto incostituzionale l’applicazione della pena di morte per alcuni di questi reati, ordinando quindi al Parlamento di emendare la legislazione in vigore.
L’aspetto innovativo contenuto in quest’ultima sentenza della Corte è che i condannati non possono rimanere in attesa dell’esecuzione della pena capitale per più di 3 anni. Grazie a questa norma si avranno perciò molte amnistie.
Molti dei condannati che hanno presentato la petizione sono in prigione da oltre un decennio e, alcuni di loro, sono reclusi addirittura dagli anni Settanta. Per loro, la condanna a morte è stata quindi commutata nella pena del carcere a vita.
La Corte ha motivato la decisione di non abolire la pena di morte basandosi sul fatto che, nonostante non si eseguano pene capitali dal 1999 (quando sono state impiccate 28 persone in un solo giorno), comunque l’esistenza di tale pena ha agito da deterrente nel commettere atti criminali.
Il 18 dicembre 2008, all’Assemblea generale delle Nazioni Unite, l’Uganda aveva votato contro la risoluzione per una moratoria delle esecuzioni capitali.
fonte www.peacereporter.it
UN’AUTO ECOLOGICA TARGATA MAKERERE
20 gennaio 2009
Sei studenti d’ingegneria ugandesi dell’Università di Makerere (Kampala) hanno tenuto alto l’orgoglio scientifico dell’Africa partecipando alla realizzazione di un prototipo di automobile ecologica, capace di percorrere 80 chilometri con un litro di carburante, in un incontro che nelle scorse settimane ha riunito presso il Politecnico di Torino una cinquantina di giovani universitari in materie tecniche da 21 prestigiosi atenei del mondo, tra cui il Massachusetts Institute of tecnology (Mit) di Boston, le università di Harvard e Princeton ma anche l’ateneo indiano Delhi College.
“A causa del colore della nostra pelle abbiamo avuto qualche problema a farci prendere sul serio, ma dopo due settimane ci hanno messo a lavorare sulle parti più importanti del prototipo” ha detto al quotidiano ugandese ‘New Vision’ Steven Ntambi, uno dei sei studenti, su un totale di 11 inizialmente scelti, che hanno avuto la possibilità di recarsi a Torino, dove sono stati poi ospiti dell’amministrazione locale.
“Abbiamo avuto qualche problema a presentarci, la maggior parte degli scienziati non aveva sentito parlare dell’università di Makerere, e dovevamo spiegare che si trova in Uganda” ha continuato Ntambi riferendosi alla sua facoltà di ingegneria, in realtà in una delle università più importanti del continente, e l’unica tra le africane ad essere stata scelta per il progetto sostenuto dal Vehicle Design Summit un consorzio internazionale guidato dal Mit con finanziamenti del settore privato per trovare soluzioni ingegneristiche a problemi di rilevanza globale.
Il prototipo dell’auto realizzato in dieci settimane presso il Politecnico di Torino ha la caratteristica di essere un sistema ibrido che unisce il basso consumo di carburante con un sistema di propulsione elettrico, agganciato alla batteria del mezzo, e che si prevede sarà presentato ufficialmente nel 2010.
La stampa ugandese riferisce che i sei studenti africani hanno impressionato molto positivamente i docenti della prestigiosa università tecnica torinese che hanno offerto loro di restare, ma sono stati convinti dal proprio professore a rientrare in Uganda per lavorare alla futura creazione di un centro di progettazione automobilistico presso l’Università di Makerere.
fonte www.misna.org
MAKERERE UNIVERSITY TO PHASE OUT FACULTIES
19 january 2009
Makerere University plans to phase out faculties and replace them with constituent colleges which are easier to manage, the Chancellor, Prof. Mondo Kagonyera, said yesterday. Under the college system, Kagonyera said, the university’s faculties will be merged.
“The college system will fundamentally reduce the number of units of the university and make it more nimble and efficient”.
Makerere University administration has persistently been criticised for inefficiency and mismanagement, including the delay to release results and academic transcripts.
Some of the graduands interviewed yesterday complained that their colleagues had not graduated because of missing results. “We were more than 300 students in my class but only about 130 have graduated” said a Bachelor of Science graduand.
Kagonyera said he would discuss with the university management ways to address delayed results, which ultimately delays the students’ graduation. “I have received a lot of complaints about unduly delayed results. Consequently, for no fault of their own, many students will not graduate now. It is imperative that work by both students and staff is streamlined so that every event takes place predictably” Kagonyera said.
Out of the 12,346 students who are graduating, 30 have PhDs, 878 masters and 11,097 bachelors’ degrees. A total of 110 were awarded post-graduate diplomas.
Kagonyera urged the university to issue transcripts on time so that former students do not have to forge transcripts as they hunt for jobs.
About the shift to the college system, vice-chancellor Prof. Livingstone Luboobi said it would help in reviewing the curriculum and consolidating programmes. “The system will also facilitate interdisciplinary teaching, thus offering students a wider choice of subject combination” he said.
The university launched the College of Health Sciences based at Mulago Hospital in December 2007. Currently, Makerere has 10 faculties, six institutes and four schools.
Steven Kasiima, a commissioner in the Uganda Police, was among the PhD graduands. Former Police spokesman Simeo Nsubuga graduated with a masters’ degree in human rights. The overall best student was Emmanuel Ishengoma of Industrial and Fine arts who scored a cumulative average of 4.91 out of 5.0. Innocent Tumugabirwe was the best from sciences with 4.71 in Business Statistics.
fonte www.allafrica.com – Fortunate Ahimbisibwe and Catherine Bekunda
UGANDA, INTERNET USERS GROW
19 january 2009
Uganda has been ranked seventh in terms of people who access the Internet in Africa. Nigeria leads the continent with 10 million people using the Internet, beating South Africa and Egypt. The statistics were released in Hyderabad, India during the Internet Governance Forum Meeting.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation with over 140 million, is followed by Egypt and Morocco with 8.6 and 7.3 million users respectively.
South Africa comes fourth with 5.1 million users followed by Algeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tunisia, Sudan and Zimbabwe, making up the top 10.
Africa has 51,065,630 users and an Internet penetration of 5.3%, which is way below the world average of 21.9%.
The US leads the world chart with 220 million Internet users followed by China (210 million) and Japan (88.1 million).
Brazil has 81 million users, followed by India with 53.1 million.
The UK has 40.2 million users, Germany 39.1 million, Republic of Korea 35.5 million, Italy 32 million and France 31.5 million.
fonte www.allafrica.com – Paul Tentena (Kampala)
IL MOVIMENTO RIBELLE DI JOSPEH KONY CHIEDE UN CESSATE IL FUOCO
12 gennaio 2009
I ribelli ugandesi dell’Esercito della Resistenza del Signore (LRA) hanno lanciato un appello per il cessate il fuoco. L’appello è stato consegnato da David Matsanga, rappresentante dell’LRA, a Joachim Chissano, ex presidente mozambicano e mediatore delle Nazioni Unite attualmente impegnato a cercare una soluzione del conflitto.
Dopo il fallimento dei colloqui di pace, forze provenienti dall’Uganda, dal Sudan meridionale e dalla Repubblica Democratica del Congo, hanno attaccato l’LRA a metà dello scorso dicembre. Dall’inizio delle operazioni, l’LRA è accusato di aver massacrato quasi 400 civili nella zona nord est della repubblica Democratica del Congo, compresa l’uccisione di una quarantina di persone in una chiesa nei pressi di Doruma il giorno dopo Natale. Sono circa vent’anni che diversi paesi, tra i quali l’Uganda e la Repubblica Centrafricana sono colpite dai raid dell’LRA, che però nega di aver mai condotto attacchi nei confronti della popolazione civile.
L’appello consegnato a Chissano è rivolto ai leader di Kenya, Repubblica Democratica del Congo, Sudan meridionale, al leader dell’Unione africana e al segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite.
Stando al contenuto dell’appello, la tregua sarebbe necessaria a causa dell’impossibilità di battere l’LRA, non perché le operazione delle forze congiunte stiano mettendo in difficoltà il movimento. L’LRA ha inoltre fatto sapere che non firmerà nessun trattato di pace fino a quando la Corte Penale Internazionale non ritirerà il mandato di arresto nei confronti del leader ribelle Joseph Kony.
fonte www.peacereporter.it
PROGRESSI NELL’ISTRUZIONE MA ANCORA 160 MILIONI DI ANALFABETI
9 gennaio 2009
Sono almeno 160 milioni gli adulti analfabeti in Africa, due terzi dei quali donne: lo ha detto il direttore generale dell’Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l’educazione, la scienza e la cultura (Unesco) Koichiro Matsuura intervenendo alla cerimonia per i festeggiamenti del centenario del King’s College di Lagos (Nigeria), una delle principali istituzioni educative dell’intera Africa occidentale.
Matsuura ha però sottolineato i recenti progressi del continente in materia di istruzione, dove si è registrato un aumento del 42% dell’accesso alle scuole primarie e secondarie, evidenziando comunque come le sfide ancora aperte (a cominciare dall’analfabetismo) debbano essere priorità dalle Nazioni Unite e dai governi del continente, dal momento che rappresentano uno dei principali freni allo sviluppo.
Il segretario dell’Unesco ha poi indicato come altre sfide nel settore dell’istruzione l’ineguaglianza di possibilità fornite alle donne e la necessità di migliorare la qualità dell’insegnamento.
Anche per questo, Matsuura ha chiesto alle grandi compagnie internazionali che negli ultimi anni hanno moltiplicato i loro volumi di affari con i paesi africani di destinare parte dei loro utili al finanziamento dell’educazione in Africa attraverso istituzioni terze.
fonte www.misna.org
RIBELLI UGANDESI ACCUSATI DI ATTACCHI A VILLAGGI NEL SUD
8 gennaio 2009
Sarebbero oltre 50 le persone uccise nelle ultime due settimane nella contea di Maridi, nello stato di Western Equatoria in Sud Sudan, in una serie di attacchi attribuiti ai ribelli ugandesi del LRA.
Lo riferisce la stampa sudanese citando il deputato Bashir Bandi, presidente della Commissione per la cultura e l’informazione del parlamento sud sudanese, il quale ha precisato che un gruppo di ribelli ha attraversato il confine tra Repubblica democratica del Congo e Sud Sudan nei giorni di Natale per fuggire dagli attacchi lanciati dagli eserciti di Congo, Sudan e Uganda nelle roccaforti delle LRA, nel parco della Garamba.
Bandi, rappresentante della Contea di Maridi al parlamento sud sudanese, ha anche aggiunto che almeno una decina di persone sarebbero state rapite dai ribelli e che giungono notizie, ancora non confermate, di altri attacchi e numerose vittime anche da zone vicine alla sua contea.
Le violenze avrebbero provocato inoltre lo sfollamento di alcune migliaia di persone, le prime stime parlano di oltre 7000, e la distruzione di numerosi villaggi.
fonte www.misna.org
KONY REBELS RAPE 80 CONGOLESE WOMEN
7 january 2009
In just two days, reclusive rebel leader Joseph Kony and his fighters raped over 80 Congolese women in the towns of Faradje and Tadu in the Orientale province in the north-eastern Congo.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) team and other UN officials who visited the area on Tuesday said the residents were shocked and traumatised by the brutality of the attacks.
“Those who fled the town and local organisations said more than 80 women were raped during the two-day period” said the UNHCR spokesperson, Ron Redmond, at the press briefing yesterday at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The rebels also burnt over 800 houses, three schools, government buildings and health care centres, with most families losing their annual harvest in the fire.
“The northeastern Congolese town of Faradje had been pillaged and destroyed by fire” said Redmond. Faradje, which lies 100km west of the DR Congo’s border with Sudan and Uganda, was attacked on December 25-26, leaving over 70 people dead and displacing nearly 40,000 others. During their visit to Faradje and Tadu, the team said it met local officials, representatives of local non-governmental organisations and displaced civilians.
The UN refugee agency said 225 people, including 160 children, were kidnapped by the rebels as they fled the joint offensive mounted by the Sudan, Congo and Uganda armies. The team estimates that the rebels killed up to 500 Congolese civilians in various attacks in the region since the launch on December 14 of operation lightning thunder led by the Ugandan troops.
Earlier, a catholic charity organisation, Caritas, had estimated that the rebels had killed 400 civilians. According to UN estimates, over 50,000 people have been forced to flee their homes since mid-December, on top of 50,000 others in the region who were displaced by an earlier escalation of clashes between last September and November.
The joint UN team found that most of those displaced by the LRA’s Christmas attack on Faradje and its surroundings were still hiding in the bush. Some of the displaced moved towards Tadu, 37km south of Faradje where more than 1,000 displaced people have been registered, mostly women and children. It found that the population was in dire need of food, shelter, medicine, clothes and other items.
“The area remains highly volatile and insecurity is a key obstacle for access by UNHCR and other aid agencies. The refugee agency is working with the local authorities and others to find ways of managing assistance in these inaccessible areas” said Redmond.
Meanwhile, the UN said it had received a preliminary report of another attack on Monday on the village of Napopo, which claimed up to eight lives and houses were set on fire.
An unknown number of people were reportedly kidnapped. Two days earlier, rebels attacked the village of Nagero, 24km north-west of Faradje, killing at least eight people and displacing some 3,500.
fonte www.allafrica.com – Barbara Among and Henry Mukasa (Kampala)
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