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.
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/ 5 February 2010
US President Barack Obama has denounced as "odious" a proposed anti-gay law in Uganda that has drawn international condemnation.
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/ 19 January 2010
The DA on Tuesday urged President Jacob Zuma not to appoint ‘committed homophobe’ Jon Qwelane as South Africa’s ambassador to Uganda.
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/ 16 January 2010
The UN’s top human rights official has called on Uganda to drop a proposed anti-homosexuality law that would impose the death penalty.
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/ 14 January 2010
Uganda has indicated it will bow to international pressure and amend draconian anti-homosexual legislation.
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/ 21 December 2009
The UN has called for the elusive leaders of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) be brought to justice for crimes against humanity.
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/ 18 December 2009
A lawmaker from the north-eastern DRC on Friday expressed fears of an attack by Ugandan rebels at Christmas.
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/ 2 December 2009
Life imprisonment is minimum punishment under anti-homosexuality Bill currently before the country’s Parliament.
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/ 25 November 2009
Dozens were killed in Central African Republic when Ugandan rebels attacked villagers but were then ambushed by Ugandan soldiers, a witness said.
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/ 23 November 2009
Foreign oil explorers are set to reap ”excessive” profit once Uganda starts pumping crude, an advocacy group said on Monday.
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/ 11 November 2009
The changing course of a river marking the natural border between Uganda and the DRC has caused boundary confusion in an oil rich area.
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/ 28 October 2009
Muhenda charges games according to the “weight” of the matches — as much as 1 000 shillings a person for an Arsenal vs Manchester United fixture.
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/ 23 October 2009
Somalia’s hard-line al-Shabaab insurgents said they will strike the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers.
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/ 16 October 2009
Human rights groups have blasted Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which includes a section that would introduce the death penalty.
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/ 13 October 2009
Two decades after he arrived in the US, Derreck Kayongo is still bowled over by one subtle display of American wealth: the endless array of soaps.
Uganda freed Somalia’s state minister for defence on Wednesday, a day after he was bundled into an unmarked car.
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/ 23 September 2009
A Uganda opposition leader has accused President Yoweri Museveni of using the army to strengthen his grip of power in the run-up to elections in 2011.
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/ 20 September 2009
Sophia Grootboom and Karabo Keepile spoke to two intersexed Africans whose sexes were wrongly identified at birth.
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/ 16 September 2009
Thousands killed and kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Joseph Kony’s LRA spreads chaos in central Africa.
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/ 15 September 2009
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday vowed tough action against protesters following riots in Kampala last week that left 14 people dead.
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/ 14 September 2009
In the space of a month, Yoweri Museveni’s 23-year-old grip on Uganda appears to have been rattled by deadly riots and the return of a major rival.
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/ 13 September 2009
Police have arrested more than 550 people in connection with two days of riots in Uganda’s capital Kampala.
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/ 13 September 2009
An African cellphone hotline that reports when clinics are out of essential drugs could be the solution to government denialism.
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/ 11 September 2009
Gunshots rang out in Uganda’s capital Kampala on Friday and at least two people were killed as security forces clashed with rioters for a second day
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/ 9 September 2009
Uganda’s opposition wants more transparency in awarding oil contracts to foreign firms, its main leader said on Wednesday.
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/ 8 September 2009
Ugandan troops have crossed into neighbouring Central African Republic in pursuit of LRA rebels with Bangui’s blessing, a spokesperson said Tuesday.
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/ 8 September 2009
The Republic of the Congo has offered Agri SA 10-million hectares for South African farmers to produce maize and soya beans.