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/ 17 September 2008
The Ugandan minister for primary healthcare tells Madeleine Bunting of his ambitions for the country.
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/ 13 September 2008
Uganda rebels vowed on Saturday to sign a peace deal but warned they will not disarm until arrest warrants for alleged war crimes are "resolved".
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/ 12 September 2008
Uganda’s fugitive rebel commander, Joseph Kony, says his fighters will defend themselves if they are attacked by Congolese forces.
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/ 10 September 2008
Uganda’s army on Wednesday urged the DRC and UN peacekeepers there to attack Ugandan rebels and force the guerrillas’ leader to sign a peace deal.
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/ 9 September 2008
Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) on Tuesday warned against any military operations by DRC troops, and vowed to act in self-defence.
The reason for the detention of two South Africans in Uganda will only be known after the SA high commissioner visits them.
There was still no word on Saturday on why two South African Islamic relief workers had been detained in Uganda.
Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony wants to resume talks with the government to end conflict in northern Uganda, an aide to the top UN envoy says.
A hepatitis-E epidemic in northern Uganda has killed 110 people since last October and continues to spread across the region.
Ugandan authorities have launched a mass circumcision drive with the hope it will reduce HIV/Aids rates in the East African country.
There are increasingly bleak prospects for peace between the Ugandan government and the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Five scientists will shadow five legislators in a new pairing scheme being tried out by the Uganda National Academy of Science.
Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, will try to extend his rule to 30 years by winning a fourth term in 2011, state media reported this week.
Changing weather patterns in Uganda have wreaked havoc on the country, writes Warren Foster.
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni already looks set to win re-election in 2011, ensuring stability for the fast-growing economy.
Ugandans and tourists urged to avoid entering caves with bats in the Central African country after a Dutch woman died of Marburg haemorrhagic fever.
Ugandan journalist Fredrick Mugira recounts the bike ride of his life on one of Kampala’s famous boda boda motorbike taxies.
Uganda rebels accused the Ugandan army on Wednesday of attacking its guerrilla hideouts in the DRC and threatening efforts to resurrect peace talks.
The Ugandan government will meet leaders of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army in mid-July in an attempt to save peace talks.
Circumcision without anaesthetic and in full view of friends and family is still the done thing in parts of Uganda.
Uganda’s fugitive rebel, Joseph Kony, has broken months of silence to call for the resumption of peace talks that collapsed in April.
The two-year peace process in Uganda aimed at ending a rebellion by the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army lies in tatters as the rebels rearm.
Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have agreed to jointly fight Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels if peace talks with its elusive leader, Joseph Kony, fail.
Global price rises and floods last year have caused severe food shortages in north-east Uganda, where nearly 30 people have died and some have been reduced to eating rats. The deaths occurred in the remote Karamoja region, an impoverished area that is notorious for fighting over livestock and scant resources.
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army rebels have abducted at least 100 children from neighbouring countries to use as sex slaves and porters, an international human rights group said on Monday. Peace talks between Uganda and the rebels appeared to stall last month when LRA leader Joseph Kony failed to appear at a signing ceremony.
Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have agreed to re-mark their common border, increasingly the subject of dispute since oil prospecting began on Lake Albert last year. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Congolese counterpart, Joseph Kabila, met in Tanzanian city Dar es Salaam over the weekend to defuse tensions.
Uganda’s fugitive guerrilla Joseph Kony will meet mediators on Saturday on the Sudan-Democratic Republic of Congo border and may even sign a final peace deal, a rebel negotiator said on Wednesday. But the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) still wants more details on how Uganda’s government plans to use traditional reconciliation rituals to help him avoid prosecution.
Donors funding a multimillion-dollar peace process in Uganda have urged the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to show commitment to ending a two-decade conflict after its leader failed to sign a deal last week. Hopes of ending one of Africa’s longest conflicts were dashed when LRA leader Joseph Kony failed to appear at a signing ceremony.
Uganda’s army have killed 13 armed Karamojong tribal warriors in two separate attempted raids in the north-east of the country, a military spokesperson said on Thursday. ”Some warriors were going to raid and loot the trading centre,” said Henry Obbo, army spokesperson for north-east Uganda.
Sobbing Ugandan parents sifted through the ashes of a school dormitory on Tuesday, trying in vain to identify their daughters from the piles of charred piles left by a fire that broke out overnight. Police said that the fire killed at least 19 schoolgirls and two adults and may have been set deliberately.
An overnight fire that destroyed a primary school dormitory in Uganda, killing 19 schoolgirls and two adults, may have been set deliberately, police said on Tuesday. ”Preliminary investigations indicate that it was homicide,” police Inspector General Kale Kaihura told reporters at the scene.
Becky Mugisha* had been ill with a hacking cough for three months before she was admitted into one of Kampala’s tuberculosis (TB) wards.