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Uganda: Shocking numbers of underage girls give birth on streets
Statistics from a recent survey carried out by a Ugandan NGO has revealed that a shocking number of over one hundred and thirty babies...
Uganda: 42 candidates to challenge Museveni
Uganda's electoral commission which is currently making final arrangements for the 2011 general and presidential elections in the country, has been overwhelmed by the...
2 more Kenyans charged with al-Shabab Uganda blasts
The number of Kenyans so far charged with being involved in the July 11th 2011 bomb blasts in Kampala in which over 70...
Sudan: Shamed Ugandan traditional healers seek compensation
Over 1000 Ugandan traditional healers who were operating in southern Sudan and were expelled for conning Sudanese nationals want compensation from southern Sudan government.
Through...
Sudan: North guilty of using LRA rebels to destabilize south?
Northern Sudan has been accused of employing rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to unsettle southern Sudan and the Darfur region ahead of...
Uganda’s anti-pornography law to fight homosexual vice
Uganda is soon to introduce a tough anti pornography law to fight the use of pornography in its local media. The country's Minister for...
U.S. to continue aid to Uganda health sector despite economic constraints
USA ambassador to Uganda, Jerry Lanier has said in a statement issued today that the dramatic growth in the delivery of health care services...
Uganda’s new solar ovens
An immigrant from Uganda now residing in Chicago has used the first portion of a $100,000 business competition prize he won in January to...
Uganda wants support against al-Shabab as soldiers’remains arrive
The government of Uganda has today afternoon received the bodies of four
Ugandan Peace-keepers who were killed by Al Shabab militants in Somalia on Monday.
Uganda...
Somalia: Ethiopia troops move in as AU-Shabab conflict intensifies
The battle for control of Mogadishu has intensified and the African Union, backing the Somalian government, has suffered a loss of four of its...
Uganda: President Yoweri Museveni to stand in 2011 elections
President Yoweri Museveni has announced his candidature for the chairmanship of Uganda's ruling party National Resistance Movement Party (NRM) and Presidential flag bearer for...
Uganda’s sedition law scrapped
A sedition law in Uganda under which many journalists have been arrested and prosecuted is no more.
The outdated sedition law was scrapped, Wednesday, by...
South Sudan: U.S. law weak amid LRA rebel attacks
A United States law that was passed in May and which demands the Washington administration to develop a strategy to ensure civilians are protected...
More charged with Uganda bombings
A court in Uganda has today remanded 32 people suspected to have been
involved in the July 11 twin bomb blasts in Kampala, perpetrated by...
Uganda links pornography to HIV-AIDs infection
Uganda government is concerned about the increase of pornography in the country. It says pornography is contributing to the rise in HIV-AIDS infections. Last...
Somali terrorists training in Uganda
The Uganda inspector general of police, Kale Kayihura, has revealed that terrorists are using the eastern and northern districts of Uganda as training grounds.
While...
Former Uganda President and ex U.S. lawyer buried
The first ex-president of Uganda to die within the country, Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa has today been burried at Natete church grave yard near Kampala....
East Africa not ready for electoral violence
The states that make up East African Community (EAC) have said that they are not ready to handle post electoral violence.
Even today, East Africa...
Uganda’s remote drought-affected Karamoja region gets U.S. help
The United States Government has donated US$ 4.8million towards the
emergency relief operation of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in the drought-affected...
Uganda President seeks tax reduction on security related items
Uganda business community has called upon the government of Uganda to tighten screening exercises involving foreigners who enter the country under the guise of...
Al-Shebab extends Uganda-Burundi threats abroad
Al-Shehab, the notorious Somali Islamist rebel group, will strike Ugandan and Burundian targets around the world. The announcement which was made Friday seeks to...
AGOA: African business women at the forefront of trade
Thirty-four African women entrepreneurs are participating in the 2010 U.S.–Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum — better known as the AGOA Forum —...
African Union summit ends with anti el-Shabab plan
As the 15th AU summit closed today in Kampala, African Union chairman, also president of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika said that the big turn...
Somalia: Africa unites against al-Shabab extremism
The African Union has embarked on an all out offensive against al-Shabab militia in Somalia in order to bring an elusive civility and stability...
Uganda head lambasts Commonwealth and Commends China
Uganda's president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said the western world has squandered cultural links with Africa and mismanaged it by making lectures thereby losing...
Somalia: Military reinforcements from African nations begin
AU commission chairman, Jean Ping has said that two African states, Djibouti and Guinea are ready to immediately deploy a battalion each to Mogadishu...
Ugandan Muslims “living in fear”
Ever since the twin bomb blasts in Uganda's capital Kampala that left at least 76 people dead some Muslims in the eastern African country...
Graveside “cassava bomb” scatters mourners
Mourners in Uganda today abandoned a dead body they were about to bury
after a bomb scare.
The incident occured in Lumundi village, Luwero about...
Uganda: AU wants to make a real difference at 15th Summit
The 15th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union (AU) has
today opened in Kampala under the theme: "Maternal, Infant and Child
Health and...
Uganda: Churches take radical steps against terrorist attacks
Shortly after Uganda's deputy speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga revealed that Parliament and churches were the main targets of the terrorists attack local...