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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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World
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Africa
4/13/2023 2:11:28 PM
A Ugandan military court has sentenced dozens of Kenyan pastoralists to 20 years in prison after they pleaded guilty to illegal possession of firearms, an official said Thursday.
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World
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Africa
4/4/2023 1:08:01 PM
East African regional forces have regained control of Bunagana, a strategic town in eastern Congo that had been held by M23 rebels for more than nine months, a spokesman for the regional force said Monday.
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World
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Africa
3/31/2023 4:04:03 PM
Ugandan troops operating as part of an East African regional military force entered the east DR Congo border town of Bunagana on Friday, an army officer and witnesses said.
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World
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Africa
3/30/2023 10:03:02 PM
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's mercurial son declared on Thursday that his country would send troops to defend Moscow if it came under threat.
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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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