Uganda's bloggers are increasingly using their blogs as forums for literary expression, and online poems, short stories and multi-part novellas are becoming increasingly popular. Carsozy is one of the blogren's most prolific creative writers. His series, The Devil's Bonfire, is the story...

For many months the Cash Africa home has been enshrouded with the heavy cloak of internet silence. No World Wide Web. Ever. Oddly, a receipt paying for monthly service rests in the stack of paid bills. But no service for the payment. The Cash clan grew weary of that irony and Mr Cash set his sights ...

When You Watched the News Today Did You See Any of This ? The Lord’s Resistance Army, once a Ugandan group, has driven tens of thousands from their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan since it launched a campaign of terror at Christmas. Also did you see any mention of The Ninet...

Anne Perkins: Can village development projects like Katine work? Adam Brett: Yes. But with significant preconditions. My biggest problem with development is that people in large donor organisations, like the Department for International Development, are tasked to have the greatest impact. So they se...

Anne Perkins: In principle, what do you think of the idea of integrated rural development projects or village development projects like Katine? Simon Maxwell: There are two issues here. First, village projects can be a wonderful demonstration of what can be done, but the question is always can they ...

As the world's economic giants work on measures to stimulate ailing economies and political and business leaders meet at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week to debate the financial crisis, life appeared to go on as usual in Katine sub-county, in north-east Uganda. At least so for Simon Erong...

It’s Mazel Tov time. This past Shabbat, our family celebrated our son Jonah’s Bar Mitzvah with our family, friends and incredible congregational community. A joyous kvell-o-rama! As you may remember from earlier blog posts, Jonah attended JRC’s congregational trip to Rwanda/Uganda ...

During the Polis seminar last week on whether the media can do development, Julius Mucunguzi spoke of the increasing realisation by journalists in Uganda that they can report on "the unsexy" issues and still capture readers' attention. Mucunguzi, a communications officer at the Commonwealth Secretar...

Rebels from Uganda's Lord's Resistance army (LRA) have continued their rampage through central Africa, killing more than 50 civilians in south Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo. The attacks come after raids on Congolese villages that left up to 500 people dead in the days after Christmas. The r...

The setting is poor – a windowless, dimly lit, grass-thatched, 3m high church in Agaja village, Katine, north-east Uganda. But the nine women and eight men sitting on squeaky benches are rich with enthusiasm. It's a Friday morning, and a tall woman in an ankle-length yellow, green and brown patter...