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Uganda: Museveni’s ‘gambler’ comments condemned
President Yoweri Museveni has described opposition politicians who claim
they also want to sit in the "chair" as gamblers who cannot solve Uganda’s
problems.
“When you want...
Uganda: Opposition could “use force to remove” Museveni
Opposition in Uganda has warned president President Yoweri Museveni against copying embattled Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo by refusing to handover power if he...
Uganda: President denies campaign help from Kenya
President Yoweri Museveni who is also the Presidential Candidate of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has hit back at opposition critics who claimed that...
Several Christians hastily convert to Islam for clothes
A group of Christians has suddenly converted to Islam in order to receive free items donated by a Dubai-based company and the United Arab...
Ugandans angry as Kenyan Vice President joins Museveni campaigns
Opposition in Uganda has attacked president Museveni for involving foreign
politicians in his campaigns.
This comes after Kenyan Vice President Dr Steven Kalonzo Musyoka joined
Museveni's campaign...
Uganda’s presidential campaign organized and disciplined
As the Uganda presidential election draws closer, several regional and international organizations have started laying strategies to ensure that the elections are free and...
Southern Sudan elections in Uganda
Although the historic referendum in southern Sudan deals specifically with whether the region should become independent from Khartoum, in Uganda it is as if...
Opposition presidential candidates in Uganda worried
Opposition presidential candidates in Uganda, currently campaigning for the forthcoming elections, have appealed to the international community to keep a keen eye on Uganda's...
Uganda gays celebrate court victory
Gays in Uganda celebrated today, after courts ruled in their favor in a case against a newspaper which called on people to hang them.
In...
Ugandan women don’t want their breasts checked by police
Women in Uganda have protested against their breasts being checked for bombs at entry points to public places.
The protest comes after a directive from...
Uganda Will Not Abandon Somali Brothers and Sisters
Uganda will not abandon its Somali brothers and sisters, even if terrorists who hit Uganda on July 11, 2010 and those threatening to hit...
Ugandan children fall prey to human sacrifice
In the last 4 days, two babies have been sacrificed in Uganda. Their bodies were found along roadsides by people going to work early...
Wikileaks cites Tsvangirai, Museveni anti-Mugabe campaign
Zimbabwe’s premier Morgan Tsvangirai privately urged Western countries to maintain sanctions against the southern African nation but publicly back calls for their removal, latest...
Uganda: Museveni and Besigye embark on smear campaign
As the race for the presidential seat gathers momentum ahead of next year's general elections in Uganda, the east African country's two key contestants,...
Uganda: A pastor’s quest for the blacklisting of gays
Already a sensitive issue, homosexuality in Uganda is becoming a taboo subject. In recent months, many organizations have sprung up to stop what they...
Uganda: Museveni uses security to attract northern votes
Although Uganda's incumbent president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni won the past two general and presidential elections of 2001 and 2006, statistics have shown that he...
Mass immunizations begin as fear of polio outbreak hits Uganda
In response to the number of polio cases detected in the Bugiri district, in
eastern Uganda in mid-October 2010, the Ministry of Health, WHO and
UNICEF...
Nigerian films to undergo censorship in Uganda
Uganda government is to soon come up with a law which will subject all
films entering the country to censorship. Ugandan legislators have, in recent...
Female circumcision and Ugandan politics
Although Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM) has been condemned by international bodies as an abuse of human rights, a vast majority of people from the...
Uganda government warned by Human Right Watch
Human Rights Watch has advised the Ugandan government to ensure that in the lead-in to the forthcoming election, those responsible for any violence are...
DRC refugees to leave Uganda
"One can never be satisfied by living in exile... notwithstanding the warm hospitality one gets from a host country", said 45 year old Banga...
Uganda: Presidential candidates nominated
Nomination exercise for Uganda's Presidential candidates kicked off Monday at the Nambole stadium in the capital, Kampala, ahead of the country's February 2011 Presidential...
Opposition leader in Uganda tear-gased
The leader of the main opposition paty, Forum for Democracy (FDC), Dr Kiiza Besigye was Thursday arrested by police after he stormed into the...
Homosexual attacks rise a year after Uganda’s anti gay bill
Uganda's homosexual community say that their situation is worsening. Today marks one year since the introduction of an Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda's parliament that...
Uganda: Kiiza Besigye, still a thorn in Yoweri Museveni’s side
Uganda constitutional court Tuesday finally made a decisive ruling in a treason case involving opposition leader Dr Kiiza Besigye. The case was filed against...
Uganda court says dowry for brides is legal
Uganda supreme court has ruled that bride price should stay after an appeal by MIFUMI, an NGO based in eastern Uganda.
MIFUMI went to court...
Ethiopia, Ghana and ten African countries get medical education grants
The United States will invest $130 million over the next five years to transform African medical education and increase the number of health care...
Uganda eyes International Telecommunications Union seat
The 18th Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has opened in Mexico where Uganda has intensified its campaign to get a seat...
Uganda: Intimidation and rigging to mar elections?
Election mood has reached fever pitch levels as primary election campaigns for flag-bearers of various political parties, ahead of the January presidential polls, register...
Rwanda and Uganda promise to improve archaic prisons
In a bid to improve service delivery among the prisons services in the east African community, Rwanda and Uganda have embarked on a bi-lateral...