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Sumy Sadurni describes the photo she captured of Stella Nyanzi being arrested by police in Kampala
Signing of Ugandan peace deal delayed amid chaos
The signing of a Ugandan deal to end 20 years of war was postponed in chaos on Friday as government delegates quit, the rebel negotiator resigned and fugitive Joseph Kony failed…
Ugandan govt officials quit peace talks
Ugandan government officials quit peace talks on Friday after fugitive rebel leader Joseph Kony delayed signing a final deal, casting doubt over the fate of nearly two years of…
Uganda elders try to save talks with rebel leader
Elders from northern Uganda tried to meet fugitive rebel leader Joseph Kony on Friday to salvage long-running peace talks after he delayed signing a deal to end one of Africa’s…
Kony ‘headed to Sudan-Congo border’
Uganda’s fugitive rebel commander Joseph Kony is walking to the Sudan-Democratic of Republic of Congo border to sign a final peace deal this week with the Ugandan government,…
Rebel Kony to sign peace deal in the bush
Uganda’s fugitive rebel chief Joseph Kony will sign a final peace deal with the government on the South Sudan-Democratic Republic of Congo border two days before an official…
Ugandan rebels sign deals, walk out of talks
Uganda’s government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army have signed the last in a series of documents paving the way for a final peace agreement to end one of Africa’s…
Ugandan rebel attack on Sudanese village condemned
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army guerrillas attacked a remote Sudanese village, killing 11 people and abducting 27 others, but the attack would not endanger peace talks under way,…
Uganda says rebels break truce
Uganda on Monday accused Lord’s Resistance Army rebels of breaking a truce by attacking civilians in the Central African Republic, threatening apparent progress at talks to end…
‘Major breakthrough’ as Ugandan ceasefire is signed
The Ugandan government said it had signed a permanent ceasefire accord with the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group on Saturday, a landmark step in efforts to end more than…
Ugandan refugees question rebels’ mea culpa
The rebels whirred up a cloud of orange dust in the stifling heat when they came to meet their victims at Koch Goma Camp in northern Uganda. They had come to plead for…
Amnesty: Uganda is failing war’s rape victims
Courts in Uganda’s war-ravaged north are tacitly condoning rape and other sexual abuses against women and girls, even protecting rapists from prosecution, rights group Amnesty…
Deputy leader of Uganda’s LRA ‘killed by firing squad’
The second-in-command of Uganda’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) guerrillas was killed by firing squad on October 2 ”together with many others”, on orders of the elusive…
Kampala spruces up for CHOGM summit
Uganda will be seeking to impress the world when it hosts the Commonwealth summit this week and convey a new image of a country best known for its history of brutal regimes and…
Brutal Ugandan rebels ask for forgiveness
Five years ago, Ugandan rebels bayoneted Ellen Atim’s husband and five of her children to death. Atim narrowly escaped and fled with her surviving children to a displacement camp…