Uganda’s constitutional court has overturned an anti-homosexuality law that punished gay sex with long prison sentences.

Ugandan police have dispersed thousands of supporters of opposition leader Kizza Besigye who gathered to hear his calls for cost-of-living protests.

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.

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.

The Uganda army on Tuesday dismissed accusations in a leaked UN draft report that it committed war crimes in the DRC in the 1990s.

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.

Ten Ugandan troops were killed in the CAR last month, and the likely culprit is a Sudanese militia group the Janjaweed, army officials say.