4220 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://allafrica.com/stories/201109161071.htmlKampala is a city crushed by grief. On Wednesday, a boda boda cyclist and his female passenger, a banker, plunged to their death and were sucked into a flood-filled culvert on Muteesa Road near the Pan-African Square on Entebbe Road. The high noon double death is one of 12 registered in just one month of downpour that has ravaged Kampala.Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:32:00 +0200allafrica-5893294b46b027cc8a82eb830491f84020110916153200http://allafrica.com/stories/201109160139.htmlBulambuli district is seeking sh118m to pay allowances of over 50 health workers to be recruited soon. The new health workers will handle the increased cases of malaria and water-borne diseases in the district affected by landslides.Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:00:00 +0200allafrica-c23f5a2595c35a6243ac0c20d02c28e920110916080000http://allafrica.com/stories/201109160126.htmlThere have been consistent reports of floods in various parts of the country. Last Friday, one person died and property worth millions of shillings was destroyed when a storm hit Rukiri subcounty in Ibanda district. Six villages were affected.Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:00:00 +0200allafrica-113af35d6cc3be23ec393f5e5deee20220110916080000http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/climate-extremes-hike-costs-for-ugandan-tea-growersTea producers diversify into resilient crops like bananas, as study predicts climate change will shrink tea-farming areasThu, 15 Sep 2011 17:17:00 +0200trust-6987c39daaea2ecc6a791732299bd5b120110915171700