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Sports
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Africa
9/27/2023 3:50:00 PM
The 2027 Africa Cup of Nations will be jointly hosted by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, while Morocco will host the 2025 edition, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
9/23/2023 4:03:02 PM
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said Saturday that recent airstrikes against rebels with ties to the Islamic State group in eastern Congo have killed “a lot” of the militants, possibly including a notorious bomb maker.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
9/16/2023 12:08:30 PM
Sudan's leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan left Saturday for a visit to Uganda, the ruling Sovereign Council said, in his latest trip abroad as battles raged in Khartoum.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
8/31/2023 5:35:00 PM
British and Ugandan investors have bought 154.8 million shares of local Egyptian energy company TAQA Arabia, which accounts for 11.45 percent of the company's total shares, for EGP 1.2 billion ($39.22 million), according to an announcement by the Egyptian Exchange on Thursday.
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Sports
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Omni sports
8/27/2023 1:31:28 PM
Ugandan Victor Kiplangat won the men's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Sunday after producing a devastating final third to leave his rivals trailing in his wake.
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World
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Africa
8/10/2023 1:29:05 PM
The World Bank is pausing approval for new public finance projects in Uganda over the country's adoption earlier this year of a bill criminalizing same-sex conduct.
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World
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Africa
8/2/2023 7:34:28 PM
Twenty people died when a boat capsized in Ugandan waters on Lake Victoria on Wednesday morning, police said as rescuers and local residents searched for survivors.
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Business
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Energy
7/25/2023 10:29:13 PM
TotalEnergies announced Tuesday it had started drilling wells for oil in Uganda as part of a huge project condemned by environmental and rights groups.
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World
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Region
7/10/2023 4:33:12 PM
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will embark Tuesday on a rare Africa tour in the latest diplomatic efforts to forge new alliances.
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World
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Africa
6/19/2023 9:20:46 PM
Ugandan police said Monday that 20 people had been arrested for suspected collaboration with the notorious militia group blamed for last week's grisly attack on a school near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.
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World
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Africa
6/18/2023 2:42:04 PM
Pope Francis on Sunday condemned this week's "brutal attack" on a Ugandan school where 41 mostly student victims were hacked, shot and burned to death and others went missing.
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World
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Africa
6/18/2023 1:51:41 PM
Distraught families gathered at a mortuary in western Uganda on Sunday for any news of their loved ones after a militant attack left dozens of students dead and others missing.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/17/2023 2:31:02 PM
Egypt condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a school in Mpondwe, in western Uganda, leaving dozens killed and injured.
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World
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Africa
6/17/2023 2:30:00 PM
Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country's worst such attack in over a decade, army and police officials said Saturday.
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World
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Africa
6/8/2023 9:43:01 PM
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said Thursday that he was on "forced leave" after testing positive for the Covid-19 virus.
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Business
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Economy
6/8/2023 6:01:22 PM
The Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade announced on Thursday that Egypt inked deals with India, Sudan, Uganda, Djibouti, and Tanzania to import live and frozen meat as a means of expanding its supply sources.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
6/4/2023 6:01:30 PM
The sprawling slums of Kampala are a far cry from the glitzy stage of Britain's Got Talent, where a group of Ugandan street kids will be performing in Sunday's grand finale of the hit UK television show.
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World
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Africa
6/4/2023 10:47:37 AM
At least 54 African Union peacekeepers were killed when militants attacked a base housing Ugandan units in Somalia last week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said.
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World
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Africa
5/21/2023 7:49:14 PM
A delegation of six African leaders set to hold talks with Kyiv and Moscow aim to “initiate a peace process," but also broach the thorny issue of how a heavily-sanctioned Russia can be paid for the fertilizer exports Africa desperately needs, a key mediator who helped broker the talks said in an interview with The Associated Press.
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World
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Africa
5/2/2023 11:58:41 AM
A bodyguard shot and killed a government minister in Uganda early Tuesday in an apparent private dispute, according to local media.
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