Somalia’s al-Qaeda-allied al-Shebaab rebels warned they were stepping up a bombing campaign in the war-torn capital Mogadishu.
Ugandan politicians are debating reintroduced anti-homosexuality proposals for prison sentences but references to the death penalty have been dropped.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in an unusually outspoken declaration on Sunday, told African leaders they must respect gay rights.
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The UN Security Council says tougher action is needed from peacekeepers against the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels in Uganda.
A US aid group is installing new high frequency radios to help track the Lord’s Resistance Army, a brutal militia that US special forces are helping h
Amnesty International says Uganda is resorting to increasingly repressive measures, including the arrest and harassment of activists and journalists.
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Police have rescued 21 Ugandan women who were lured to Malaysia with promises of lucrative jobs but were forced into prostitution instead.
The struggle for 2012 Africa Cup of Nations places reaches a climax this weekend with 21 countries chasing 10 tickets to Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
South Sudan says that fake college degrees, most of them from Uganda, are posing a critical challenge to the development of Africa’s newest nation.
Ugandan police have dispersed thousands of supporters of opposition leader Kizza Besigye who gathered to hear his calls for cost-of-living protests.
It was Uganda’s ubiquitous potholes that first made Ian Clarke want to stand to become the country’s first elected white politician.
Ugandan and French scientists have discovered a fossil of a skull of a tree-climbing ape in Uganda’s Karamoja region, the team said on Tuesday.
A lightning strike at a primary school in Uganda killed 19 pupils and injured 50, as meteorologists blamed climate change for the extreme weather.
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye says that cost-of-living protests must go on, despite a lull in recent weeks while he was out of the country.
Uganda’s former vice-president Gilbert Bukenya will face charges of misappropriation of funds intended for the 2007 Commonwealth summit.
Former warriors are swapping their automatic weapons for arithmetic books in Uganda.
When it comes to statements by the "big men" of Africa’s various governments, the rule is the greater the frequency, the less the impact.
Ugandan police have again arrested the country’s top opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, to prevent what they said could be a destructive protest march.
A transgender man who endured corrective rape in Uganda hopes for a change in attitudes.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni vowed to stamp out "disrupting schemes" on Thursday as he was sworn in for a fourth term.
Uganda’s top opposition leader was kicked off a Kenya flight, prompting riots back home that police quelled with tear gas only a day before the p
Riots have swept across Uganda’s capital, Kampala, in the biggest anti-government protest in sub-Saharan Africa this year.
Riots have swept across the Ugandan capital as protesters called for an Egyptian-style uprising against their autocratic president.
Rioters setting up burning roadblocks in Kampala clashed with police firing tear gas on Friday, a day after Uganda’s opposition leader was arrested.
Pitiless politics ensures a steady supply for local authors.
Police cracked open the window of Uganda’s top opposition leader and fired tear gas into his vehicle on Thursday.
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was dragged from his car by police on Thursday and thrown into a pick-up truck, witnesses said.
Ugandan police arrested opposition leader Kizza Besigye for the third time this month and remanded him in custody after they again broke up a
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and a number of associates were arrested as they prepared to take part in a third round of protests.
Ugandan police have arrested the country’s two main opposition leaders after they attempted to lead a protest over rising prices.
President Jacob Zuma congratulated President Yoweri Museveni, Ugandan president for 25 years, on his re-election on Monday.
AU observers say Uganda’s presidential poll suffered from several shortcomings, while two losing candidates are calling for Egypt-style protests.