Article: Jumbo-sized rescue bid.(News)

Article: Ugandan official says Mount Elgon likely to erupt ...
Xinhua News Agency;  August 25, 2004 ;     394 words ...Ugandan official says Mount Elgon likely to erupt into volcano KAMPALA ... Odong confirmed on Wednesday that Mount Elgon is likely to erupt into a volcano ... communities living at the foot of Mount Elgon on the Kenyan side have observed ...

Article: UGANDA: THOUSANDS EVICTED TO REFOREST MOUNT ELGON
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 13, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Service English News Wire 11-13-2009 MOUNT ELGON, Uganda, Nov. 13, 2009 (IPS/GIN ... to be earmarked for reforestation in Mount Elgon National Park. "We have been reduced ... When you go up where we were (in Mount Elgon), the air is fresh, we had water ...

Article: Mount Elgon Coffee announces single-serve pockets
Automatic Merchandiser;  August 1, 1998 ;     408 words ...Mount Elgon Coffee, contract and custom packer, introduces single-serve coffee packets. The Elgon brand single-serve coffee packets ...

Article: Mount Elgon
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      277 words ...Mount Elgon , extinct volcano, central Africa, on the Kenya-Uganda border. Its highest peak is Wagagai (14,178 ft/4,321 m). The inhabitants of Mt. Elgon's densely populated lower slopes cultivate arabica coffee, tea, bananas, and millet.

Article: Kenya army 'abusing civilians'.
Aljazeera.net;  June 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... medical charity has said. People in the Mount Elgon district still face violence from ... medical teams and observers in the Mount Elgon region. Rise in injuries The army was deployed to the Mount Elgon region in March 2008 after reports ...

Article: Kenyan army crackdown reported in west; parliament to debate ...
AP Worldstream;  March 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... crisis. The violence in the western Mount Elgon region underlines how difficult it will ... declined to give details of the army's Mount Elgon operation, saying only troops were ... identified himself as chairman of the Mount Elgon chapter of the Kenya Red Cross, said ...

Article: Big dig: a herd of elephants mines an African volcano for a ...
Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the pitch darkness of Kitum Cave in Mount Elgon, an extinct volcano in Africa. Once ... giants return to the open air. The Mount Elgon elephants exhibit one of nature's ... Current Science. "Plants growing on Mount Elgon and other rainy areas are low in sodium ...