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World
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Africa
3/13/2023 9:53:45 PM
Countries in the Horn of Africa have been hit by a multiyear drought. Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda are expected to continue getting below-normal rainfall in 2023. Excluding Uganda, 36.4 million people are affected and 21.7 million are in need of food assistance.
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World
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Africa
2/28/2023 5:54:40 PM
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called for stronger trade relations among African countries and lamented the high cost of buying products and services outside the continent.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
2/1/2023 4:24:18 PM
Orphaned and homeless, Eddy Kenzo used to struggle to persuade DJs to play his songs, but Uganda's first Grammy contender said his success offers hope that even the poorest person can triumph.
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Business
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Energy
1/24/2023 7:16:20 PM
Oil drilling has begun in a Chinese-operated field in Uganda and the East African country expects to start production by 2025, an official said Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
1/11/2023 12:35:06 PM
Uganda's latest outbreak of the Ebola virus is over.
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World
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Africa
1/9/2023 2:32:26 PM
Ugandan police said Monday they have arrested a key suspect who went on the run after a deadly stampede at a New Year's Eve party in the capital Kampala.
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World
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Africa
1/1/2023 12:34:13 PM
At least nine people died in a shopping mall crush in Uganda's capital on Sunday as revellers rang in the New Year, police said.
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World
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Africa
12/8/2022 6:03:10 PM
Uganda on Thursday received its first shipment of trial vaccines against a strain of Ebola that has claimed dozens of lives, amid cautious optimism the outbreak could soon be over.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
11/22/2022 5:03:17 PM
Eddy Kenzo doesn't know precisely when he was born, a quirk of personal history that goes to the heart of how the Ugandan singer sees himself: a humble man who's sometimes anxious about what happens next.
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World
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Africa
11/16/2022 6:10:50 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that he expects the first doses of Ebola vaccine targeting the strain behind an outbreak in Uganda to arrive in the country next week.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 5:41:44 PM
Uganda's veteran President Yoweri Museveni accused Europe on Wednesday of "brazen double standards" towards Africa in its climate and energy policies.
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World
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Africa
9/23/2022 5:07:23 PM
A total of four people have died from the highly contagious Ebola virus in Uganda, where the authorities declared an outbreak earlier this week, health officials said on Friday.
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Sports
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Egyptian Football
9/17/2022 11:05:12 PM
Debutants Future FC needed a late free-kick from full-back Jonathan Ngwem to scrape a 1-0 home win over 10-man Bul FC of Uganda and reach the African Confederation Cup second preliminary round on Saturday.
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Sports
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Omni sports
9/11/2022 3:51:08 PM
World record holder Jacob Kiplimo became the first Ugandan man to win the Great North Run after tributes were paid to Queen Elizabeth II before Sunday' race.
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Sports
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Egyptian Football
9/10/2022 5:36:56 PM
Egypt's Future FC marked their first ever appearance in a continental competition with a 0-0 draw away to Uganda's Bul FC in the first leg of the African Confederation Cup first preliminary round on Saturday.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
8/4/2022 1:49:02 PM
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations headed to Africa on Wednesday, saying she was going to focus on how the United States can help Uganda, Ghana and Cape Verde deal with the food crisis that has hit the continent particularly hard _ not to compete with China and Russia.
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World
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Africa
7/31/2022 5:33:08 PM
Two people have been killed and several others injured after UN peacekeepers opened fire during an incident in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on the Uganda border on Sunday, the UN said.
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Sports
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Omni sports
7/30/2022 2:57:28 PM
Victor Kiplangat produced an impressive performance to give Uganda their first-ever Commonwealth Games marathon gold in Birmingham on Saturday.
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World
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International
7/29/2022 7:16:20 PM
The Biden administration likes to say Russia has become isolated internationally because of its invasion of Ukraine. Yet Moscow's top officials have hardly been cloistered in the Kremlin. And now, even the U.S. wants to talk.
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World
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Africa
7/29/2022 4:39:15 PM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel next month to South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the State Department announced Friday, as Washington ramps up diplomacy in Africa to counter a Russian charm offensive.
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