Word: kampala
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...control. Like its predecessor in Zaire, this outbreak has come to world attention months after it began, and only when health care workers, including foreigners, have succumbed. The full scope of the epidemic, including evidence it may also be expanding in Sudan and southward towards Uganda's capital city, Kampala, has yet to be determined. Regardless of how large its scope may be, however, the same control measures will ultimately be effective...
...large Zaire outbreaks Ebola emerged in areas so remote that there was little, if any, threat of spread to other countries, including the U.S. Gulu, however, is connected to Uganda's capital by a paved highway, and flights from the now-prospering Kampala depart daily to London, Paris, Johannesburg, Nairobi and other African locales. The threat of spread in this case is a bit more real...
...devious and tough simply to stay alive. He fights what he sees as the tyranny of his parents and the authoritarian rule of the priests at his school. For a while, he idolizes Amin's power and intransigence. But this feeling fades, and the stroll he takes through anarchic Kampala, his adopted urban home, just after the overthrow of Amin in 1979 becomes a harrowing hell. Precious few first novels are as phantasmagoric or as haunting as this...
...remote Kanungu. Using money provided by followers, who commonly sold their homes and possessions upon joining, and funds from groups and individuals overseas, Kibwetere built a small complex of houses, offices and a school. He recruited followers from nearby rural districts and from as far away as the capital, Kampala...