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Yoweri is a “boda boda” man, one of tens of thousands in Uganda. The term was christened in the small eastern town of Busia, which spills across the border with Kenya. Legend has it that the passenger bicycle operators used to call, “border, border” to communicate as they ferried their customers across. Over the years, the “boda boda” phenomenon has spread throughout the country as an independent and unregulated transit system...
...territoriality between campus groups, and I believe collaboration is necessary,” said Julia C. Silverman ’10, president of another event co-sponsor, the Harvard College Alliance for Africa (HCAA). The HCAA is currently collecting used laptops to donate to the New Hope Orphanage in Busia, Uganda. The technology would both educate children and eventually help them find higher-level jobs, according to HCAA Treasurer Charlotte A. Chuter ’10. The HCAA will hold a laptop collection on Dec. 12 and 13 outside Quincy House and in Annenberg. Negroponte said he hoped Harvard students...
Vendors selling popcorn and soft drinks moved through the crowd of journalists and diplomats gathered in the tiny border town of Busia, Kenya, about 235 miles northwest of Nairobi. The throng was there to greet the first convoy of cars and buses carrying nearly 300 Americans, Europeans and Asians who were evacuated from Uganda last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed...
...RECORD Busia Kenya's new labor minister, Ahmad Mohamed Khalif, was killed along with two pilots when their aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff. Three other ministers were injured. Caracas One person was killed and at least 12 wounded after a suspected bomb exploded near a pro-government rally in the Venezuelan capital. Patna A deadly monthlong cold spell led the Indian state of Bihar to declare a disaster. Some of the lowest temperatures in three decades have killed more than 1,800 people in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Kabul After a 10-year ban Afghan women regained the right...