African countries are divided about whether they should arrest Sudan’s president on suspicion of genocide, diplomats at a summit said on Sunday.
A group of Malawians risked losing their homes, jobs and even lives by meeting in the run-up to this week’s Aids conference in Vienna.
Dozens of people were feared drowned on Wednesday after a ferry capsized on Lake Victoria, Ugandan police said.
The United States military is prepared to step up assistance to African Union forces in Somalia.
Ugandan police have discovered a suicide vest and explosives laced with ball bearings in a
discotheque in the capital, Kampala.
Bomb attacks likely reaction to Uganda’s large presence in African Union force in Mogadishu.
Uganda forcibly returned 1 700 Rwandan asylum-seekers and refugees, the United Nations said on Friday.
Somalia’s al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for deadly bombings in Uganda, should be "annihilated", Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says.
The leader of al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for bombings in Uganda during the Soccer World Cup final, has threatened further attacks.
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni says that AU troops in Somalia should be boosted to 20 000 to "eliminate" those behind the Kampala blasts.
Barack Obama tells SABC that al-Shabaab sees Africa as a place where life is cheap and innocents can be killed for little political cost.
Ugandan police have found an unexploded suicide vest and made a number of arrests after coordinated bomb blasts killed at least 76 people on Sunday.
Twin bombs tore into crowds watching the World Cup final in the Uganda capital, killing 64 and wounding scores on Sunday,
Uganda’s military was put on heightened alert following an attack inside the DRC by a long-dormant rebel group, an army spokesperson said on Tuesday.
For a decade the nine states in the Nile basin have been negotiating on how best to share and protect the river in a time of changing climates.
Ten Ugandan troops were killed in the CAR last month, and the likely culprit is a Sudanese militia group the Janjaweed, army officials say.
Ban Ki-moon has urged all states to sign up to the International Criminal Court and rejected criticism the body was a court for only African crimes.
Hard-fought gains against HIV/Aids are being threatened by international donors “flatlining” funding for treatment programmes.
Case of married gay couple in Malawi could become a test for emerging gay rights lobby where homosexuality is illegal in 37 African countries.
The United Nations refugee agency expressed alarm on Friday that "murderous" Ugandan rebels are mounting increasingly brutal attacks.
Ugandan opposition lawmakers on Thursday demanded the publication of a graft report implicating top government officials.
Ugandan journalists are resorting to self-censorship as fears of being harassed by government security agents rise.
A Ugandan parliamentary panel said on Friday there is little backing for the country’s widely condemned anti-gay Bill.
Caroline Aya was playing in front of her house in January when a neighbour put a cloth over her mouth and fled with her.
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army said on Monday a report that its members killed hundreds of villagers in the DRC late last year was fabricated.
SA President Jacob Zuma has arrived in Kampala for a two-day state visit, heading a large delegation expected to explore investment opportunities.
More than 300 000 people have been displaced by floods in eastern Uganda, a Cabinet minister said on Monday.
Tens of thousands of Ugandans were to be moved on Friday from hilly regions in the east of the country after a deadly landslide.
Grieving villagers in eastern Uganda dug through the night and moved tonnes of mud in the hope of finding relatives buried by a huge landslide.
UN relief teams were on Thursday to begin their rescue effort in a remote region of Uganda, three days after a landslide left 80 dead and 300 missing.
At least 80 people died and 400 were missing after a landslide swept away entire villages in eastern Uganda, the Ugandan Red Cross said on Wednesday.
A landslide in eastern Uganda after heavy rains killed at least 45 people and hundreds are feared missing, Uganda’s disaster minister said on Tuesday.