connection is changing the way the world works. Governments are trying to keep up and the older generations are concerned - the game has new rules. The next 27 minutes are an experiment‚ but in order for it to work you have to pay attention…” Yoweri Museveni‚ 1986 Alice Lakwena gained the presidency of Uganda: a woman from the Acholi tribe in Northern Uganda created the Holy Spirit Movement (HSM) in opposition‚ where the group would recruit followers and forged alliances with rebel militias with
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Impact of Structural Adjustment Program in Uganda Submitted to S.M.HumayunKabir Submitted by Md. FazlurRahman Roll: BB-04 Date of Submission: 26 April 2012 When President Yoweri Musevini came to power in Uganda in 1986‚ his government faced the challenge of rebuilding an economy devastated by the dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote. Between 1971 and 1986‚ the Ugandan economy deteriorated. But in the ten years that followed (between 1986-1996)‚ per capita GDP grew by roughly 40%. The IMF
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Sociological Reactions to HIV/AIDS in the 80’s‚ 90’s and new Millennium In the early stages of identifying HIV‚ it was first believed that only certain individuals were able to become infected. This group was known as the 4-H group: homosexuals‚ hemophiliacs‚ heroin addicts and Haitians. The stigma of HIV was that it infected people with promiscuous or unclean ways. Jerry Falwell‚ a televangelist‚ fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor and conservative cofounder of the Moral Majority‚ became a
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Examine reasons for recent changes in patterns of World development. In the 1970’s Africa seemed poised to take off developmentally speaking while S.America and especially Asia were seen with extreme pessimism. Since then patterns have been reversed; Asia led by economies such as India have introduced new nomenclature such as newly and recently industrialising countries while S. America has followed close behind. Today it is Africa or more precisely Sub-Saharran Africa which has stagnated developmentally
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Uganda a Periphery Nation Introduction / Geography & Demographics Uganda is a small‚ landlocked country‚ smaller than the state of Texas‚ located in Central Africa (on the Equator) with only a lake as a water source. Landlocked means that a country is surrounded by other land (countries) without rights to or access to waterways. "Uganda is landlocked by Kenya‚ Sudan‚ Democratic Republic of Congo‚ Tanzania‚ and Rwanda" (Uganda Country Summary‚ 2001). As a landlocked country‚ the social issues
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that talks about these girl soldiers‚ it states “Thanks to the infamous KONY 2012 campaign‚ many now know that Joseph Kony’s rebel army abducted more than 30‚000 children - a quarter of the girls - to fuel a two-decade-long fight against President Yoweri Museveni’s government. We have heard how these boys and girls - some as young as six - were beaten‚ raped and forced to loot and kill.” (Ellison) This is explaining that this young girl was abducted‚ and was raped‚ further into the
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CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION This study is about the ability of Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in sustaining marginalized children’s right to health. NGOs are organizations that are independent of any government. Typically NGOs are made up of activists devoted to working on particular issues according to a set of principled ideas or values. Within the liberal paradigm of international law‚ NGOs help bridge the gap between law and policy; thereby becoming useful citizens of the global community
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LEADERSHIP 1.0 Introduction Management and leadership are often thought as the something but this is not true‚ as we shall see in the following paragraph. Even some writers have the tendency to use leader and Manager as synonymous terms. But there are distinct differences between leaders and Manager. A person becomes a manager through a formal appointment by some appropriate legal authority‚ like the General Manager of a Company is appointed by the Board of Directors of that particular company whereas
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Joint Africa Institute Seminar on the Role of Parliamentarians in Promoting Good Public Financial Management and Accountability in Africa Tunis‚ November 19-23‚ 2007 Public Financial Management and Corruption[1] Public Financial Management (PFM) ordinarily covers the management of government revenue‚ expenditure and cash. Corruption defined as the diversion of public resources for private use can affect any of these operations‚ at the level of the national and sub-national administrations. This
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General Knowledge * Antonis Samras: PM of Greece * Angela Merkel: Chancellor of Germany * Samar Yazbek: Exiled Syrian author has won Pen’s Pinter International Writer of Courage Award for her book “A Woman in the Crossfire”‚ an account of the early stages of the Syrian Revolution * Amra Babic: Europe’s first hijab-wearing mayor (Bosnia) * MILF: Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Philippines) * Dilma Roussef: President of Brasil * October ‚ 2012: 10th anniversary of the World
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