Final handshake? Museveni off to Angola to meet Kagame over tensions
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday morning left for the Angolan capital Luanda for a quadripartite summit, whose top agenda is to normalise the frosty
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Uganda abolishes mandatory death penalty
Parliament in Uganda has passed a law that abolishes the mandatory death penalty for certain crimes, amending four different laws that had earlier prescribed capital
Uganda: Stella Nyanzi appeals against conviction, sentence
Incarcerated controversial Ugandan academic has appealed to the High Court challenging her conviction and sentence. Dr Stella Nyanzi, a Makerere University Research fellow, was earlier
Nine dead in Uganda fuel truck explosion
A fuel tanker that Sunday evening burst into flames in Kyambura trading centre, Rubirizi District, in western Uganda, has left nine people dead and dozens
A Rwandan’s long journey to Uganda through Tanzania
Rwandans travelling to Uganda have resorted to going through Tanzania as uncertainty shrouds the opening of the common border at Gatuna, six months after Kigali
Uganda: Winnie Byanyima appointed UNAids executive director
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has appointed Oxfam International executive director Winnie Byanyima as the new UNAids executive director, a spokesperson for Guterres said
Uganda’s malaria surge ‘linked to climate change’
More than one million people have been infected with malaria in Uganda in the last two months, officials have said. The health ministry has attributed
New strategy to revamp Uganda’s textile sector
Uganda has completed the development of a strategy for its cotton, textiles and apparels sector that could generate 50,000 new jobs and $650 million in
Kenyan fishermen say they suffer in the hands of Ugandan soldiers
Rajab Daudi Ongoma had been fishing in Lake Victoria for four decades until two months ago when Uganda security officers brutally halted his only source
Uganda: Bobi Wine charged with annoying president
Ugandan MP and musician Bobi Wine has been charged with intending to annoy, alarm or ridicule the president. The new charge is an addition to