If nations continue with election malpractices, it is only a matter of time before they face the same fate as Libya and Sudan
Peace is about to break out across war-torn northern Uganda, with a formal accord making it official expected to be signed on March 28. Many people here are already looking to a…
Five years ago, Ugandan rebels bayoneted Ellen Atim’s husband and five of her children to death. Atim narrowly escaped and fled with her surviving children to a displacement camp…
Nursing her infant on a dusty pavement outside her printing shop in war-weary Gulu, Mary Amito says she isn’t convinced the recent talk of peace for northern Uganda will mean the…
Bands of Lord’s Resistance Army rebels trekked out of hideouts in northern Uganda on Monday, officials said, raising hopes that a landmark truce could signal an end to years of…
His rebel group is one of world’s most notorious, reviled for an incongruous mix of religion and brutality, but Joseph Kony, the chief of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army, is a…
One-by-one the words, bizarre and horrific, spout from the mouth of Alice as she recounts the terror and abuse she suffered as a child slave for Uganda’s notorious Lord’s…
Far from the capital where the merits of democracy are debated in earnest, the impoverished residents of war-ravaged northern Uganda see little point in this week’s referendum on…
Terecina Ayo remembers the night rebel fighters attacked, hacking to death her 12-year-old nephew and 13-year-old niece, abducting other villagers and torching thatched huts. The…
Margaret Okello was nine months pregnant when soldiers from the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army came into her village outside the Northern Ugandan town of Gulu. They dragged her…
Walking in the eerie darkness engulfing Noah’s Ark, a centre that children in northern Uganda escape to for fear of being kidnapped by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), it…
Uganda’s government must do what it can to protect children and women from violence, while the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army must immediately and unconditionally stop abducting,…
Johny Lacambel, a local radio presenter, offers his two guests some soda before asking the tall dark male with an amputated limb to lead in prayers as the programme begins. The…
Investigations by leaders in northern Uganda’s Lira District have found that the death toll in the February 21 rebel attack on the Barlonyo camp for internally displaced persons…
Relief agencies working in northern Uganda on Thursday urged the government to dismantle camps housing displaced persons, saying they lacked adequate security.
Uganda’s war-ravished northern provinces are in worse shape than at any time since the fighting began 15 years ago, according to United Nations officials. Recently 17 children…
Uganda was on Tuesday halfway through withdrawing some 500 of its soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s northern town of Gbadolite.
