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** FILE ** In this Thursday, July 12, 2012, photo, a health worker from The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) health worker speaks with patients waiting for treatment in Kampala, Uganda. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)

Officials: Ebola breaks out in Uganda

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Briefly: Mutinous Madagascar soldiers paid to revolt

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Women affected by AIDS share stories of survival at the Reach Out clinic near Kampala, Uganda, which receives funding from a U.S.-backed program. Research suggests stemming the spread of the AIDS virus may be possible, even in some of the world’s poorest countries. (Associated Press)

U.S. AIDS program working in Uganda

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

AIDS rise in Uganda shows need for more resources

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Happy Science Pastor Tomohiko Nakagawa (left), leads prayers with the faithful in Kampala, Uganda. The religion, with origins in Japan, is quickly amassing a following in Uganda with a campaign that has attracted the attention of Christian clerics offended by its beliefs. (Associated Press)

Religion with roots in Japan growing in Uganda

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Thousands of youths demonstrate against homosexuality in Uganda's capital, Kampala, in January 2010. Ugandan Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo has accused some nongovernmental organizations of conspiring with foreign backers to recruit children into homosexuality. (Associated Press)

Advocacy of gay rights unwelcome in Uganda

By Ioannis Gatsiounis - Special to The Washington Times

S. Africa: Rwandan general testifies over shooting

By Donna Bryson - Associated Press

The helmet of Kenyan soldier Nicholas Munyanya reads in Kiswahili "Tea in Kismayo," no doubt hoping for respite in the strategic Somali port city that African Union troops hope to wrest from the control of al-Shabab terrorists by late August. (Associated Press)

Troops close to taking Somalia out of terrorists’ control

By Ioannis Gatsiounis - Special to The Washington Times

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, being pressured by church leaders to retire after his current term, had term limits eliminated in 2006. He has ruled for 26 years. (Associated Press)

Church leaders in Uganda praying for strongman to go

By Ioannis Gatsiounis - Special to The Washington Times

Troops from the Central African Republic stand guard April 29, 2012, at a building used for joint meetings between them and U.S. Army special forces in Obo, Central African Republic. Obo was the first place in the Central African Republic that Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacked in 2008 and today is one of four forward operating locations where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Kony. (Associated Press)

Uganda suggests Joseph Kony getting Sudan support

By David Rising and Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

This photo from video provided by WLS-TV in Chicago shows fire and ambulance crews on the runway at Midway Airport after reports of a medical emergency that led to the quarantine of a Delta airplane Thursday, April 26, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/WLS-TV)

Son: Bedbug bites caused rash that stopped flight

By Don Babwin and Gretchen Ehlke - Associated Press

Sudanese state Minister of Information Sana Hamad poses April 24, 2012, for a photo with Sudanese armed forces at the oil-rich border town of Heglig, Sudan. (Associated Press)

Conflict in Sudan could spark regional warfare

By Ioannis Gatsiounis - Special to The Washington Times

Members of the Sudanese armed forces raise their weapons during a visit by President Omar al-Bashir in Heglig, Sudan, on Monday, April 23, 2012. (AP Photo)

Sudan conflict could shake region

By Ioannis Gatsiounis - Special to The Washington Times

Uganda term-limits bill grandfathers Museveni

By Ioannis Gatsiounis - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, meets in July 2006 with a delegation of 160 officials and lawmakers from northern Uganda and representatives of non-governmental organizations in Congo near the Sudan border. (Associated Press)

Nations unite for all-out effort to hunt down warlord Kony

By Ioannis Gatsiounis - Special to The Washington Times

Ugandan opposition members, vowing to resist their criminalisation by the government, demonstrate in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, April 5, 2012. The Ugandan government on Wednesday outlawed the group "Activists for Change" that since last year has led popular protests against official corruption and the high cost of living, saying it had become a force for instability. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)

Uganda bans protest group amid corruption, social unrest

By Ioannis Gatsiounis - Special to The Washington Times

Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

BURNETT AND EVENSON: Other half of the Kony equation

By Maria Burnett and Elizabeth Evenson - The Washington Times

Briefly: Ugandan protest leader in court after police death

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

**FILE** Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki

Oil discovered in Kenya for first time

By Jason Straziuso - Associated Press