Pictures and latest news from Uganda...

Greetings everyone,

Thank you to all those that called or emailed for my birthday, we had a blast celebrating at a bbq with some friends we have made here - as well as some friends from DC!

For those of you who don't know .... Kampala has been the site of some pretty interesting riots over the last few days ... take a look at this BBC article ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4435490.stm
Last Friday the riots were centered around fee increases at Makere University where four students were shot and killed as well as another riot that took place in front of the parliament building. We walked through a couple of clouds of tear gas but nothing too serious. Yesterday Presidential hopeful Dr. Besigye was arrested on some trumped up charges from years ago that sent the city up in chaos with massive looting, marching and general political upheaval. We were in Entebbe at the time and heard it all unfold via radio. We will be in Kampala on Thursday and will get a first-hand account of what's going on there.

Our work with Victoria has been stimulating, although we are eager to get back up North. We leave around December 4th for Gulu.

We tried to upload some pictures so let us know if the pictures come through, if not, we will try again ...

Love to everyone!!