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THE Government has offered to give the Aga Khan a hospital that can be transformed into a medical teaching facility.
President Yoweri Museveni recently directed Kirunda Kivenjina, the Minister in charge of the presidency, to identify three hospital sites that could be handed over to the Aga Khan for his consideration.

Leonard Chemonge, Kivejinja's aide, said this in a statement issued to clarify a New Vision story, which quoted the minister as saying the Aga Khan would build a medical school in Busoga.

His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili Council for Uganda held a bazaar on Sunday to raise money for the internally displaced people in northern and eastern Uganda.
Energy minister Syda Bbumba presided over the ceremony held at Kyadondo Rugby Ground in Kampala.

Handing over the gifts, which included mattresses and blankets, Bbumba thanked the Ismaili community for the bazaar.

'This is a very good gesture,' she said.

'It's a bridge on which government can build.'

His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims and founder of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), today conveyed his deepest sympathy to the Government and people of Pakistan on the great loss of life, serious injury and widespread material destruction resulting from the earthquake that struck several parts of Pakistan.

On 12th of October 2003, H.H. The Aga Khan visited Mali. The highlight of the trip was His visit to the Djingarey Ber Mosque in Timbuktu and the Ahmed Baba Centre known for its collection of 20,000 Arabic manuscripts. H.H. made some remarks in French to the television crew during this visit. Here is the transcription and its English translation.

The Aga Khan Hospital has been awarded the ISO 9001:2000 certification.
During the award ceremony at a Nairobi hotel, Aga khan chief Executive Officer, Ian Cripwell said the institution has invested in state of the art equipment to meet international standards.

The hospital was awarded the certification 'for conforming to the internationally accepted quality assurance standards for all clinical, diagnostic, administration and support services'.

A microfinance bank has been opened in Tajikistan under financial support of the Aga Khan Development (AKDN). Visiting His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims, and Tajik Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov inaugurated the bank yesterday, July 5.

His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili Council for Uganda held a bazaar on Sunday to raise money for the internally displaced people in northern and eastern Uganda.
Energy minister Syda Bbumba presided over the ceremony held at Kyadondo Rugby Ground in Kampala.

Handing over the gifts, which included mattresses and blankets, Bbumba thanked the Ismaili community for the bazaar.

'This is a very good gesture,' she said.

'It's a bridge on which government can build.'

The Serena Hotels interests in acquiring the Nile Hotel complex dates way back to 1993, Mahmud Mohammed, the Tourism Promotion Services (TPS) chief said on Wednesday.
'We have been trying to get into Nile Hotel. We always believed that our success would be in having a total East African presence,' Mohammed said.

'This property has a great location and has great potential. By 2005 September, this hotel will be the flagship hotel in Uganda. It will be springfield for tourism because the industry's potential needs to be rediscovered,' he said.

The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili branch of Islam, begins an official visit to Mozambique on Thursday, at the invitation of the Mozambican government.
According to a press release from the Aga Khan Foundation, he will attend a ceremony at which President Joaquim Chissano will lay the first stone in the construction of an Aga Khan Academy in the southern city of Matola.

This is the second in an international network of 20 academies, described by the Foundation as 'centres of excellence', and which will be run by the Aga Khan Educational Services.

A network of private development agencies founded by the wealthy leader of 15 million Ismaili Muslims worldwide announced plans yesterday to establish an Islamic museum and cultural centre in northeast Toronto.
The Aga Khan Development Network has secured a 6.8-hectare parcel of land on Wynford Drive in a commercial area in Don Mills and is seeking approval for a museum to house private art collections and artifacts dating back to the 11th century.

The Aga Khan outlined plans on Friday to build the English-speaking world's biggest Islamic academic centre in the historic heart of London.
'It's a gift to London, it would bring a real enrichment of the city's cultural life,' his private affairs director Iain Cheyne told Reuters, confirming a 24 million pound ($35 million) offer to develop the prime site on London's river Thames.

Prince Karim Aga Khan, 66, heads a largely Third World-orientated network of charitable institutes and businesses. Now he wants to make his mark on London.

The Aga khan Foundation is to build a multi-million medical and nursing university, the minister for the presidency has said.
Kirunda Kivejinja said the university would be built either in Jinja, Bugiri or Kamuli district.

'Jinja seems to have a comparative advantage, taking into account the infrastructure and human resource,' Kivejinja said.

He said the institution would produce health personnel who measured up to international standards.

Kivejinja was meeting Jinja district leaders and the management of Jinja hospital at the hospital superintendent's office on Tuesday.

Thousands of people from across North America got a rare glimpse of their Ismaili spiritual leader Friday as the Aga Khan addressed followers in a private service that was to be focused on compassion and charitable works.
Farid Damji, a spokesman for the gathering that attracted about 20,000 people to the Trade and Convention Centre, said Ismaili Muslims revere the Aga Khan for his emphasis on improving the lives of those in need.

'Everybody's really excited to see him,' Damji said. 'It doesn't happen very often and it's a unique opportunity, so we're celebrating that.'

L'Aga Khan ha deciso di costruire un'universita' internazionale per le popolazioni montanare centro-asiatiche del Pamir e del Karakorum. L'ultramiliardario, leader della comunita' dei musulmani ismailiti noto in Italia per aver creato l'impero turistico della Costa Smeralda, posera' domani la prima pietra del nuovo complesso su un'altura non lontano da Dushambe, la capitale tagika, tra vallate ancora percorse da carovane di cammelli e contadini a dorso di mulo. 2004-07-06 - 12:02:00

As an overcast sky over Chitral clears up early morning, HH Prince Karim Aga Khan is to depart for Chitral from Islamabad to reach here at 0945 Hrs. From the Airport he would fly in a Helicopter to Garam Chashma where he would address a large gathering of his followers. He would then proceed to Booni where an even larger gathering of his faithful awaits him enthusiastically.

A new university should bring smiles on the faces of Uganda's doctors, nurses and teachers.His Highness the Aga Khan yesterday named these professions as the main focus of a proposed Aga Khan University in East Africa campus in Kampala. The Aga Khan was jointly with President Yoweri Museveni addressing a press conference at State House, Nakasero, in Kampala.

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) today announced its intention to establish in Toronto a museum housing exceptional collections of Islamic art and heritage as well as a unique academic and cultural center focused on the study and practice of human pluralism.

Creating a sound future for the peoples of Central Asia requires a clear focus on building new concepts and new institutions for new civil societies.'
Prince Karim Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Ismaili community, on Wednesday called on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and other international financial institutions to 'look in depth at the problems that should be addressed in supporting non-commercial civil society institutions.'

Produit par l'Initiative Aga Khan pour la musique en Asie centrale, agence du Trust Aga Khan pour la culture, ...Via Kaboul est un spectacle musical aux allures de voyage à travers les traditions musicales des peuples indo-iraniens de l'Asie centrale. Quelles soient ouzbeks ou baloutchis, afghanes ou tadjiks, il est un lien culturel fort qui unit profondément les musiques de l'Asie centrale.

Billionaire racehorse owner the Aga Khan has been presented with a prestigious award for philanthropy.
He was one of six people handed the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy during a ceremony at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.

Kwik-Fit founder Sir Tom Farmer also received the accolade, regarded as the philanthropy world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Also honoured in the awards was Agnes Gund, chair of the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Cadbury chocolate family and the Hewlett and Packard families.