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Three villages in eastern Uganda were devastated by a March 1 landslide that killed at least 86 people and left hundreds missing. The region, which has been plagued with unusually high rainfall over the past few months, is under alert for additional slides, and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered residents to move away from vulnerable hillsides...
...deterioration." Increasingly bold ways of dealing with al-Shabab are being considered. The A.U. peacekeeping force is being expanded, with the hope of creating a "green zone" in Mogadishu. Hundreds of al-Shabab fighters have been pouring into Mogadishu recently in anticipation of a rumored TFG offensive. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has gone further, proposing invading Somalia, occupying the southern port of Kismayu and using it to take the fight to al-Shabab. Memories of the disastrous intervention in 1993 remain sharp, so that is not a proposal that seems likely ever to gain much U.S. support...
...about a week into my time here the inevitable happened. I had a meeting across town and 10 minutes to get there. It was 8:30 a.m. and I knew it would take at least a half hour in traffic—there was only one choice. I saw Yoweri driving by my apartment on a Yamaha and flagged him down...
...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...
...commuters, the “boda boda” ride is an indispensable daily ritual. But despite their utility, operators like Yoweri occupy a position among the most universally reviled inhabitants of the city center, hovering somewhere near corrupt politicians and prostitutes...