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Ugandan baseball hopeful gets visa to play for Frederick Keys

Frederick News-Post 19 May 2023
LOS ANGELES — After declining to issue a travel visa to Dennis Kasumba, the Ugandan orphan profiled in The Los Angeles Times, the American Embassy in Kampala backtracked Thursday and approved Kasumba’s request to travel to the U.S. this month ... .
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Ugandan MLB hopeful gets visa

Richmond Times Dispatch 19 May 2023
LOS ANGELES — After declining to issue a travel visa to Dennis Kasumba, the Ugandan orphan profiled in The Los Angeles Times, the American Embassy in Kampala backtracked Thursday and approved Kasumba's request to travel to the U.S. this month ....
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BYU roundup: Cougars qualify 64 athletes for NCAA track preliminaries

Provo Daily Herald 19 May 2023
Thirty-six entries is an all-time high for the men ... The junior continues his 2023 world-leader status in the event following a historic, all-time great race at Sound Running Track Fest on May 6. His 8.17.62 3,000-meter steeplechase time marked the event’s fastest American collegiate run in history.
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Ugandan major league hopeful finally gets visa to play in MLB Draft League

Marietta Daily Journal 18 May 2023
After declining to issue a travel visa to Dennis Kasumba, the Ugandan orphan profiled in The Times, the American embassy in Kampala backtracked Thursday and approved Kasumba's request to travel to the U.S. this month to play in the MLB ... .
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Oakland educators’ strike ends with tentative agreements on salaries

People's World 17 May 2023
The tentative agreement also calls for more school librarians, guidance counselors and school nurses, with the district employing guidance counselors at the elementary school level for the first time. OEA Vice President Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said the strike had never been just about educators’ salaries.
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Ugandan major league hopeful denied visa to attend MLB Draft League in the U.S.

Eagle-Tribune 12 May 2023
LOS ANGELES — Dennis Kasumba, the Ugandan orphan profiled in The Los Angeles Times last week, saw his dream of playing professional baseball frustrated again Friday when he was denied a visa to come to the U.S ... But to join the team he needed a visa, and Friday's denial marked the third time the U.S. embassy in Kampala has turned him away.
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Westmont women’s soccer returns to Africa

Santa Barbara News-Press 08 May 2023
On Saturday, May 13 the team will travel to Kampala. During their time in Uganda’s capital city, the Warriors will worship with local churches, participate in an outreach soccer game and work with youth soccer teams ... Back in Kampala on Tuesday, May 23, the team will ...
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BYU runner Kenneth Rooks sets NCAA record time in steeplechase

Provo Daily Herald 07 May 2023
BYU men’s steeplechaser Kenneth Rooks rewrote BYU and NCAA record books with a historic, all-time great race at the Sound Running Track Fest at Hilmer Lodge Stadium in Los Angeles on Saturday night ... Rooks also broke three-time Olympian Henry Marsh’s BYU school record 8.21.60 set in 1977.
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Rwanda: Rwandair to Launch Nonstop Flights to Paris

All Africa 26 Apr 2023
Kampala, Uganda -- RwandAir has announced plans to launch nonstop flights to Paris for the first time ....
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A rolex everyone can afford: this egg wrap is the breakfast to change your mornings

The Irish Times 26 Apr 2023
Rolex (vegetable omelette and chapati roll), sold by street vendors in Kampala, Uganda, can be easily made at home ... Kelly Marshall for The New York Times Yewande Komolafe ... I once believed that weekend mornings were a time for elaborate culinary rituals ... Say “rolled eggs” two or three times, and you’ll hear what you’ll be making.
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Ugandans rage over roads: 'Not a pothole but a pond'

Yahoo Daily News 18 Apr 2023
The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), charged with the city's road maintenance, will from time-to-time fill the crevices up with a clay-like soil called murram.
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Building collapse in Uganda’s capital leaves 1 dead, several injured

Anadolu Agency 17 Apr 2023
They said at the time of incident at Loi Lang Restaurant near Kampala International University in Kampala, some South Sudanese nationals were watching an English Premier League match between West Ham United and Arsenal on television ... and the rich who buy houses in Kampala.
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Building collapse in Uganda's capital leaves 1 dead, several injured

Urdu Point 17 Apr 2023
They said at the time of incident at Loi Lang Restaurant near Kampala International University in Kampala, some South Sudanese nationals were ...
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Uganda passes anti-LGBTQ bill that would impose death penalty

Democratic Underground 25 Mar 2023
As reported by Time, Uganda’s Parliament in Kampala on Tuesday passed a bill that would make it a crime to identify as LGBTQ — legislation described by the United Nations’ human rights chief as “probably among the worst of its kind in the world.” The Anti-Homosexuality bill ...
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Uganda passes anti-LGBTQ bill that would impose death penalty — and other international stories you ...

Yahoo Daily News 24 Mar 2023
As reported by Time, Uganda’s Parliament in Kampala on Tuesday passed a bill that would make it a crime to identify as LGBTQ — legislation described by the United Nations’ human rights chief as “probably among the worst of its kind in the world.” The Anti-Homosexuality bill ...

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