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| UpdatedAs Sydney celebrates Mardi Gras, elsewhere in the world gay and lesbian people can struggle to simply stay out of jail.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, law-crime-and-justice, discrimination, australia, sydney-2000, singapore, uganda, south-africa, iran-islamic-republic-of, saudi-arabia, european-union
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A coming-of-age ceremony that sees Uganda's young males circumcised without anaesthetic, while not showing pain lest they are not accepted as men, is being promoted as a new cultural attraction to tourists.
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, people, travel-and-tourism, uganda
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| UpdatedA coming-of-age ceremony that sees Uganda's young males circumcised without anaesthetic, while not showing pain lest they are not accepted as men, is being promoted to tourists as a new cultural attraction.
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, men, community-and-society, people, travel-and-tourism, mens-health, uganda
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| UpdatedA Newcastle school student has won a scholarship to learn from some of Australia's leading Shakespearean actors.
Topics: actor, arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, youth, education, schools, theatre, hamilton-east-2303, uganda, sydney-2000
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A number of people from the LGBTQI community living in East Africa have had to flee their homes because of their sexuality.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, gays-and-lesbians, uganda, kenya
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Simon Costa left Australia's largest horticulture company to help Africans achieve food security with a simple solution.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, relief-and-aid-organisations, grain, charities, sydney-2000, uganda, canberra-2600, kenya
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A gay pride event in Uganda is raided by police with a dozen organisers and gay rights activists arrested, according to eyewitness reports.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, police, uganda
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The speaker of the Ugandan Parliament this week threatened to proceed with anti-homosexuality legislation, which is still widely supported by many ordinary Ugandans.
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Yoweri Museveni wins Uganda's presidential election, but opposition leader Kizza Besigye says the poll was a "sham".
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, world-politics, uganda
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Ugandan police fight running battles with supporters of opposition leader Kizza Besigye in Kampala, in the worst outbreak of violence yet during campaigning for Thursday's presidential election.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, elections, uganda
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| UpdatedMillions of Twitter users are blocked from their feeds as the social networking shuts down in several countries, suffering one of the worst outages in its 10-year history.
Topics: social-media, information-and-communication, internet-culture, european-union, united-kingdom, united-states, south-africa, brazil, philippines, nigeria, uganda
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| UpdatedPope Francis cautions young Kenyans not to yield to the lure of corruption, urging them to put an end to tribalism.
Topics: government-and-politics, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, uganda, kenya
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| UpdatedPope Francis, who has called for "a poor church for the poor", will visit some of the world's poorest people during his first visit to Africa.
Topics: catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, poverty, kenya, uganda, central-african-republic, holy-see-vatican-city-state
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| UpdatedThousands of Ugandans who had their lips, ears, noses and limbs cut off by Lord's Resistance Army rebels now face a new hostility.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, uganda
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Bankstown Cricket Club sends $500,000 of much-needed equipment to young players in the African country of Uganda.
Topics: charities, cricket, bankstown-2200, uganda
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| UpdatedThe Ugandan government raises the stakes in the bizarre case of a Sydney cardiologist who is accused of funding murder and terrorism in Uganda.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, community-and-society, death, australia, uganda
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| UpdatedAfter watching his family being burned to death, former child soldier Charles Adoke fled the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda and now works in a quarry, where he earns less than $US1 a day.
Topics: refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, uganda
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| UpdatedA survivor of Kenya's university massacre who hid in a wardrobe for two days, too terrified to come out, is rescued, dehydrated but apparently unharmed.
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The United States says it has information of "possible terrorist threats" in Uganda's capital, Kampala, and warns that an attack could take place soon.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, uganda
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The Ugandan government paid a US public relations firm $262,000 to combat the negative publicity caused by its controversial homosexuality ban, a local report reveals.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, world-politics, laws, activism-and-lobbying, uganda, united-states
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| UpdatedAn exhibition of portraits of South Australian former refugees provides a sometimes unnerving look into the experiences of several refugees from around the world who now call Australia home.
Topics: refugees, visual-art, human-interest, adelaide-5000, uganda, congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the
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| UpdatedUgandan netballers have been warned not to "disappear" when they compete in the World Cup in Australia later this year.
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Former Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen makes his first appearance before the International Criminal Court, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, human, uganda, netherlands
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| UpdatedA Ugandan nanny admits torturing a toddler when the child refused to eat, in a case that shocked the country after a video of the abuse was made public.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, uganda
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| UpdatedThe kind hearts and cheeky antics of an Australian couple killed in a motorcycle accident in Uganda will never be forgotten, family members say.
Topics: road, foreign-affairs, death, uganda, brisbane-4000, melbourne-3000