Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, one of Africa’s longest serving leaders, won election to a fourth term in office by a huge margin on Sunday.
Veteran Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, edged closer on Sunday to a resounding victory in a presidential election.
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/ 19 February 2011
Ugandan officials scrambled to tally votes after a calm election gave way to tensions with both Yoweri Museveni and his rival predicting victory.
Ugandans started voting on Friday in polls widely predicted to return long-time leader Yoweri Museveni to power.
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/ 16 February 2011
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said at a press conference on Wednesday he was confident of a "big win" in Friday’s presidential poll.
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/ 14 February 2011
Whoever wins this week’s presidential election in Uganda will have to manage national reserves of 2,5-billion barrels of oil.
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/ 11 February 2011
Ugandan police say the killing of activist David Kato was not related to his campaign for gay rights.
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/ 3 February 2011
A man in police custody has confessed to killing a prominent Ugandan gay rights activist who was pictured last year in an anti-gay tabloid, AFP says.
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/ 31 January 2011
The DA on Monday called on President Jacob Zuma to remove controversial former columnist Jon Qwelane as South Africa’s ambassador to Uganda.
A bomb exploded on a bus in central Nairobi during a security search before it left for the Ugandan capital Kampala, killing three so far.
Another ageing autocrat uses youth culture to chase votes.
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/ 30 November 2010
Gay Kenyans will be driven further away from HIV care services following a recent call by the prime minister’s calling for a crackdown on homosexuals.
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/ 23 November 2010
A Ugandan high court judge on Tuesday extended a ban on the publication in the media of pictures identifying people as homosexuals.
If media bosses can’t pay their staff properly, brown-envelope journalism will be a problem.
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/ 9 November 2010
Ugandan police issue a warning they will shut down public places that have not implemented anti-terrorism guidelines.
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/ 2 November 2010
Uganda’s High Court has ordered a controversial newspaper to stop publishing the names and photographs of people it says are gay.
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/ 1 November 2010
A Ugandan newspaper on Monday published the names and photos of 14 men it identified as gay in a country where homosexuality can lead to jail terms.
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/ 11 October 2010
Ugandan impounded copies of a new book critical of President Yoweri Museveni to investigate whether the content could cause "social disorder".
If Ugandan investigators are right, the size of the conspiracy behind the twin bombings during the World Cup finals could hardly have been bigger.
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/ 27 September 2010
South Sudan is to provide community militia groups with weapons to fight the brutal Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army.
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/ 14 September 2010
The Uganda army on Tuesday dismissed accusations in a leaked UN draft report that it committed war crimes in the DRC in the 1990s.
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/ 10 September 2010
Ugandan police said on Thursday they had tightened security after Somalia’s extremist rebels, al-Shabaab, threatened further violence.
Uganda has charged 32 people in connection with the July 11 bomb attacks in Kampala, which killed 76 people as they watched the Soccer World Cup.
A notorious Ugandan rebel group abducted hundreds of villagers, including children, in the CAR and the DRC and forced them to fight, HRW has said.
An overloaded boat capsized on the Ugandan side of Lake Albert overnight, killing at least 33 people, police said on Monday.
Three Kenyans have been charged with the bomb attacks that killed more than 70 soccer fans watching the World Cup final.
We need Africans to provide solutions to the continent’s problems.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi said on Tuesday his dream of a United States of Africa was still alive.
An African Union summit in Uganda is this week being dominated by the Somali crisis.
Months after reluctantly handing over the AU presidency, Libya’s Moammar Gadaffi has tried once again to stamp his authority on the body’s agenda.
African leaders met behind closed doors on Monday to discuss boosting the African Union’s force in Somalia.
Uganda’s president has urged African leaders to unite agaisnt terrorism just weeks after Somali militants set off deadly twin bombings in Kampala.