News stories by Amy Fallon, page 3

KAMPALA, Mar 18 (IPS) - "People in Ukraine took over power.

"Celebrated a few days, then the party went sour…" raps Sharon Bwogi, aka Lady Slyke, on NewzBeat, a weekend show that airs on Uganda's channel NTV in both English and the local language Luganda. 

KAMPALA, Mar 13 (IPS) - Human rights campaigners who filed a recent legal petition against Uganda's draconian anti-gay law believe that they have a compelling case for its nullification. 

KAMPALA, Feb 25 (IPS) - Uganda's gays are bracing themselves for a spate of arrests and harassment as the country's draconian anti-gay bill was signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni on Monday, Feb. 24.

KAMPALA, Feb 05 (IPS) - There's the good: "A slight delay of about a minute."

The bad: "Terrible jam!!"

And the unbelievable: "No jam." But as long as Kampala motorists and pedestrians are talking traffic, the eight Ugandan creators of new app called RoadConexion, are happy. For the time being, anyway.

CHILANGA, Zambia, Jan 09 (IPS) - There are thousands of miles between Chanyanya Rural Health Clinic, a basic medical centre in Zambia's rural Kafue District with no resident doctors despite being the main centre for nearly 12,000 people, and the New York University (NYU) Teaching Hospital, one of the world's most prestigious medical schools.

LUSAKA, Dic 17 (IPS) - It is known as the land of copper to the outside world, but there's another c-word that does a roaring trade in Zambia, albeit locally - caterpillars.

DAR ES SALAAM, Dic 11 (IPS) - Some say it's the journey, not the destination that matters. Hop aboard the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) line at Tanzania's Dar es Salaam port and begin the 1,860-kilometre journey to Kapiri Mposhi, a small town in Zambia's Central Province, and you may find yourself pondering this adage.

KAMPALA, Nov 28 (IPS) - Uganda may have the third-highest fertility rate in the world but where there is life, death is inevitable. And it is a certainty that Regina Mukiibi Mugongo made the most of when she became this East African nation's first ever funeral director almost two decades ago.

KAMPALA?, Nov 19 (IPS) - Ever since giving birth to a stillborn baby 15 years ago, Mary*, a peasant farmer living in Mubende District, central Uganda, has continuously leaked urine.

KAMPALA?, Oct 02 (IPS) - Helen Baleke took up boxing at 16, after she was attacked by a man in Kampala's Katanga slum. But the beating turned her into what she is today – one of only several female Ugandan amateur boxers.