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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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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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