Search results for ‘Uganda’
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Channel 4 News completes onscreen line-up with new talent
Channel 4 News announces three new additions to its award winning programme. These complete the onscreen team after a year that has seen big name hires and promotions for home grown talent.
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Kenya goes to war on al-Shabaab
As Kenya goes to war on al-Shabaab, defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones writes for Channel 4 News on Nairobi’s desperate efforts to contain Somalia’s troublesome militants.
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Mobile phone services help refugees find families
Refugees who have become separated from family during war and disasters can now use a mobile phone web service to try to find them again. Around 200,000 refugees are expected to use the site.
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Demand for land threatens world’s poorest, says Oxfam
Oxfam publishes a report warning that a “modern day land rush” is harming some of the world’s poorest people, who facing losing their homes and livelihoods.
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Gaddafi not the only victim of Libya’s revolution
The Gaddafi regime may not be the only casualty of events over the past six months. Africa’s most powerful nations may have been compromised by their dealings with Libya under the discredited colonel.
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Somalia famine spreads threatening 750,000
The UN reveals famine has spread to three quarters of Somalia, threatening 750,000 people with imminent starvation. Islamic Relief in the UK tells Channel 4 News the situation is now “catastrophic”.
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Defiant Gaddafi rallies supporters as rebels target hometown
Colonel Gaddafi calls on his supporters to march on Tripoli and “purify” the capital of Libya’s rebels, as International Editor Lindsey Hilsum meets neighbourhood groups patrolling the streets.
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Norway attacks: I survived by hiding in a tree
In a Channel 4 News exclusive, Ugandan Sam Muyizzi tells Simon Israel how he survived the Utoya island massacre by hiding in a tree.
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Norway mourns victims of shootings and bomb blast
As Norwegians mourn the victims of Friday’s attacks a Ugandan survivor of the Utoya island shooting tells Channel 4 News about his attempts to rescue a woman from the water.
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Mogadishu: the 'antidote' to boredom
We have four vehicles in our convoy, lumbering giants mounted with machine guns fore and aft. And so we trundle out of the airport, feeling like sitting ducks, through the wrecked city of Mogadishu, failed capital of a notoriously failed state.
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Forget phone hacking: the world’s worst media abuses
For anyone who think the phone-hacking scandal represents a new low for the British media, here’s a reminder that other people have had it much, much worse.
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Will independence save South Sudan from poverty?
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from South Sudan on the nascent nation’s hopes and fears as it emerges from a decade of war.
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Life, love and cows in southern Sudan
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on a peculiar problem of a person’s worth in cows in southern Sudan.
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Somalis flee famine as drought grips east Africa
The mass exodus of starving Somali refugees is becoming an unbearable crisis as aid agencies launch an emergency appeal to help millions facing the worst east African drought in decades.