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Did Gaddafi know his King of kings initiative was illegal…
An initiative of a league of African kings led by Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, which had been planned to discuss an eventual African unity,...
LRA denial of christmas church massacre rejected
Following a collapse in the peace process between the Uganda's army and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, 100 civilians in a Catholic church...
Rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army in shambles
After Joseph Kony's narrow escape from a joint military operation, last week, over 70 per cent of the camps occupied by members of his...
LRA Rebel leader narrowly escapes death
Head of Lords Resistance Army (LRA) Joseph Kony is reported to have narrowly escaped death from a joint UgandaSudan military operation. According to the...
Rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army attacked
The Armies of Uganda, DR Congo and the government of South Sudan have launched a joint offensive against Ugandan rebels known as the Lord's...
Nigeria renews bilateral relations with Uganda
Yoweri Museveni the president of Uganda has announced that Nigeria has promised to help Uganda manage their oil resources, since Nigeria is highly experienced...
Student deaths caused by botulism in Uganda confirmed
A poisonous bacterial infection known as Botulism has broken out in Uganda, the US-based Centre for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed after tests done on...
Islamic leader accused of half a million US dollar fraud acquitted
A court in Uganda Monday acquitted Muslim leader Mufti Sheik Shaban Ramadhan Mubajje and two others, accused of fraudulently selling properties belonging to the...
Foreign boost for hydro project: Ugandans remain skeptical
Ugandan critics say the mini-hydro projects under construction won’t solve the country's electricity capacity constraints because protracted under investment in generation infrastructure has produced...
DRC conflict: Castrating and using boys as shields
Uganda has accused rebels of renegade General Laurel Nkunda who is fighting the Kinshasa government of committing crimes against humanity by castrating men and...
CNN to blame for panick-selling and heavy losses
With fears of a financial meltdown still streaming in Uganda, investors have sold their shares costing the local stock market about Shs114 billion in...
Ugandan researchers awarded for agricultural contribution
The New African Women in Agricultural Research and Development Programme has awarded eight Ugandan female researchers with the outstanding agricultural award for their contribution...
Uganda to compensate DR Congo
In an interview recorded Saturday, September 27, for the flagship news programme, La Grande Interview, broadcast September 29th, on the France based pan African...
Wall Street crisis traps Uganda
According to reports emanating from Kampala, Uganda, the economic hold back in the US and Europe could naturally affect demand for Uganda’s export.
Coupled...
Laptops for all in Uganda
Alintuma Nsambu, the State Minister for Information and Communications Technologies, has affirmed that the newly introduced laptop ownership programme will after five years, see...
Asian supermarkets flooding Uganda with expired goods
The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) officials found out that most supermarkets in Eastern Uganda are flooded with expired goods.
It was discovered that...
Uganda calls for transperency in public offices
As part of a wider effort to fight corruption, Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Buturo during a Presidential Affairs Committee announced that all...
AU peacekeepers killed and several injured in unprovoked attacks in Somalia
Two Ugandan African Union peacekeepers have been killed and seven others injured in an unprovoked attack by Somali insurgents in Mogadishu last Sunday, the...
Several Ugandans feared dead after bus plunges into river
About 30 passengers are feared dead after a mini-bus plunged into Aswa River on the Gulu and Pader district border in northern Uganda Tuesday...
Food Crisis in Northern Uganda
Food insecurity in northern Uganda, a region recovering from two decades of conflict, is approaching crisis levels due to a combination of factors, including...
A new type of bank fraud uncovered by Police
Police in Uganda have revealed a new wave of crime in financial institutions where bank officials conspire with conmen to siphon money out of...
Frustrated woman tries committing suicide after killing all her children
A woman killed her four children, including a set of twins, by strangling them inside her rented two-room apartment in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb,...
Uganda and Egypt agree on joint business ventures
Uganda and Egypt have agreed to develop joint business ventures between the two nations in the agriculture, tourism and industrial sectors. The meeting, in...
Uganda says no to crude oil export
Uganda, the world's newest oil frontier, has no plans to export crude oil until the black gold is refined and sold as a finished...
Great lakes region hold talks on good governance
A delegation from the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) is in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, for a meeting on the implementation...
Researchers from Canada and Uganda breakthrough on new malaria drug
Canadian and Ugandan researchers at Makerere University said they had recorded a breakthrough in their search for new drugs to treat malaria, noting that...
US encourages LRA to back Final Peace Agreement in Uganda
The United States has called on the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to demonstrate its commitment to a peaceful and permanent resolution of the conflict...
Yogesh Patel and Anwar Pandya drop out of Uganda motorsports
Two Kenyan drivers Yogesh Patel and Anwar Pandya have pulled out of the 2008 Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Pearl of Africa Uganda Rally set...
East African Community considers a borderless market
East African traders would have a borderless regional trading system by 2010 to allow for free flow of goods, services and investments across the...
Several children killed in deadly Uganda school fire
Reports on death toll vary between 19 and 21 in a school fire that broke out in a dormitory at the Budo Junior School...