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“I was just running along with police as they dragged her”

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…

Ugandan rebel hideout hit by cholera

An outbreak of cholera has swept a hideout camp housing Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, infecting its leader, Joseph Kony; his deputy, Vincent Otti; and scores of…

Ugandan rebel chief denies killing deputy

Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has arrested his deputy on suspicion of spying but denies executing him, a top peace mediator said on Friday. Norbert Mao, a top regional…

Chissano wins $5m African leadership prize

Former Mozambique president Joachim Chissano won a new -million prize for African leadership on Monday and was hailed as ”a powerful voice for Africa on the international stage”.…

$600m to rebuild Uganda’s war-ravaged north

War-ravaged northern Uganda is to be reconstructed at a cost of -million, according to the government. The rehabilitation, announced by President Yoweri Museveni on October 16,…

DRC militia chief to face war-crimes charges

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday transferred a militia chief to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to face war-crimes charges, including sexual…