| UGANDA: Government accused of negligence over nodding disease |
 | PADER، 11/6/2012 (IRIN) - Two lawsuits have been filed against the Ugandan government for alleged negligence in the handling of nodding disease which has killed at least 200 children since 2009 and currently affects 3,500 others, according to the Ministry of Health. full report |
| KENYA: Vanishing fish income forces livelihood switch/correction* |
 | KISUMU، 11/6/2012 (IRIN) - Joseph Obiero, a 35-year-old father of seven, has been a fisherman on Lake Victoria since he was a teenager, but a decline in earnings in recent years means his family can no longer depend solely on fishing. full report |
| BURUNDI: Government seeks funding for five-year HIV/AIDS plan |
 | BUJUMBURA، 11/6/2012 (IRIN) - Burundi is seeking US$349 million for its National Strategic Plan to fight HIV/AIDS over the next five years. full report |
| DRC: Scores killed as Mai-Mai target Kinyarwanda speakers |
 | KATOYI، 12/6/2012 (IRIN) - More than 100 people have been killed and thousands displaced in ethnically motivated massacres in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo since mid-May, according to government officials. full report |
| UGANDA: Urgent funding needed to stem devastating banana wilt |
 | KAMPALA، 12/6/2012 (IRIN) - Lack of funding has stalled a campaign to eliminate a deadly bacterial banana wilt disease that has spread to "worrying levels" in Uganda, threatening the food security of up to 14 million consumers of bananas as a staple food, say scientists. full report |
| UGANDA: LRA victims rap compensation delay |
 | GULU، 13/6/2012 (IRIN) - Jennifer Abalo struggles to support two of her own and two of her late sister's children. She lost her father, sister and two of her children to Lord's Resistance Army violence between 1998 and 2004, but like thousands of other victims she has never received any compensation, despite government promises. full report |
| UGANDA: Government should support new workplace HIV policy |
 | KAMPALA، 13/6/2012 (IRIN) - The government needs to actively support a recently launched East Africa HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy or it will not achieve the goals of fighting stigma and promoting non-discrimination in the public sector. full report |
| UGANDA: Florence Ayot, "My children are always reminded that their father is a notorious rebel commander" |
 | GULU، 14/6/2012 (IRIN) - When Florence Ayot escaped from the rebel Lord's Resistance Army in 2005 after over 15 years in captivity, she was overjoyed to be free, but the seven years she has been back have been more than difficult - most of her family is dead and the local community has been hostile to her and her children. full report |
| SOUTH SUDAN-SUDAN: Thousands still stranded despite airlifts |
 | JUBA، 14/6/2012 (IRIN) - Thousands of South Sudanese remain stranded in Sudan or internally displaced en route to their homes or relatives in South Sudan, following the final International Organization of Migration airlift of people from Sudan to South Sudan on 6 June. full report |
| UGANDA: Activists to pursue maternal health case against government |
 | KAMPALA، 15/6/2012 (IRIN) - A petition backed by over 50 NGOs and charging Uganda's government with failing to prevent the deaths of expectant mothers was thrown out by the constitutional court on 5 June, but the petition's supporters plan to appeal. full report |