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4.4 million children die each year in Africa
Civil society organizations in Africa are crying out loud to be heard on the burden of alarmingly high maternal and infant mortality rates, and...
NYERERE centre for peace research begins new training programs in Arusha
The East African Community Nyerere Centre for Peace Research (EAC-NCPR) in cooperation with Arcadia University in the USA has offered new scholarships to undergraduate...
Obama: Al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab attacks in Africa “tragic and ironic”
President Obama said the United States will redouble its cooperation with Uganda and other African Union members against the Somali terror group al-Shabaab to...
Deadly Uganda blasts condemned
Amnesty International has condemned the bomb blasts that last night hit the Ugandan capital Kampala, leaving at least 64 people dead.
The bombs exploded in...
Uganda: Suicide bomb fails to go off in a disco
An unexploded bomb was yesterday discovered by Uganda police in a disco hall shortly after two bomb blasts killed over seventy people in the...
Uganda bombings linked to Somali suicide bombers
Police and other security agencies in Uganda are making investigations
to establish whether Somali suicide bombers were responsible for bomb blasts that tore through...
Uganda: British American Tobacco company sent out of town
Parliament in Uganda has directed the British American Tobacco (BAT) to relocate its tobacco treatment plant from Kampala to another place.
This follows complaints...
Uganda-Rwanda: Genocide pastor to face prosecution in Tanzania
One of the most wanted promoters of the genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994 has been arrested in Uganda. The former pastor...
Kenya: U.S. launches East Africa software competition “Apps 4 Africa”
United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale launched the “Apps 4 Africa” contest at the Innovation Hub...
African countries’ reluctance to ratify Kampala Declaration questioned
Uganda government has expressed its unhappiness towards African countries over delays in the ratification of the Kampala Declaration, which aims at ensuring that African...
East Africa: Rwanda government condemned over murder
The media fraternity in the east African countries of Kenya, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda have condemned the brutal killing of Jean Leonard Rugambage,...
East Africa getting ready for internet revolution
The recent deployment of the SEACOM broadband cable off the coast of east Africa has sparked “the dawn of a new era” in Internet...
Uganda: Christians steal from Churches in broad day-light
Some Christian worshipers in Uganda have been accused of stealing money from offertory bags in churches.
Several churches have seen a rise in the...
Mugabe, Zenawi, Bashir, Afwerki, Mubarak, Biya… World’s worst despots list
A United States based think tank, Foreign Policy/Fund for Peace has ranked President Mugabe as the second worse despots in the world after...
Ugandans flee village as several people die
Hundreds of residents in the Kawogo village of central Uganda have fled their homes after the death of 22 of their neighbours in the...
Ugandan women seek UN ban on Female Genital Cutting
Ugandan women civil organizations and politicians want the banning of
female genital mutilation (FGM) to be effected worldwide.
Uganda recently passed a law in parliament banning...
EAC- EC economic partnership agreement negotiations held in Dar Es Salaam
The third negotiations session between the East African Community (EAC) Partner States and the European Commission (EC) on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) ended...
Uganda: Egypt agrees to Nile Basin hydro power projects?
Egyptian Minister for International Cooperation has revealed that her
Government is committed to developing the resources of the Nile basin for
the benefit of member countries....
Albinos seek electoral representation in Uganda
Albinos in Uganda want a representation in parliament to safeguard against witch-doctors who more often than not kill them to perform ritual sacrifices.
They have...
Uganda airport fights increasing drug trafficking
One German national, a Kenyan, a Nigerian and one Ugandan are being held
by police in Uganda after being arrested at Entebbe international airport in...
Uganda President applauds Obama administration for anti-LRA law
Uganda's president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Wednesday thanked the United States and in particular president Barack Obama for signing a law meant to deal...
Ban Ki-Moon renews calls for Bashir and Kony arrest
United Nations Secretary, Ban Ki-Moon Tuesday urged African leaders to convince the President of Sudan, Omar Bashir and Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leaders...
Uganda: Ban Ki-Moon and Yoweri Museveni play football
UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon and Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, Sunday played against each other in a football match at the Nelson Mandela stadium...
The Review Conference in Kampala will plan the future of international criminal justice
In 1998, near the end of a century marred by unspeakable atrocities, representatives of 160 States gathered in Rome to create the world’s first...
EU military in Uganda to train Somalis
100 soldiers from European Union countries are in Uganda to train Somali soldiers in street fighting and other military tactics. More trainers are expected...
US government contributes to primary education in northern Uganda
The United States Government, through the USAID/UNITY project, has
provided 115 motorcycles to Uganda.
The motorcycles are meant to benefit the Centre Coordinating Tutors in...
LRA rebles captured in Southern Sudan
Three rebels of the Lords' Resistance Army (LRA), have today, Monday, been captured by the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA).
According to SPLA spokesman...
African political party leaders meet in Uganda
Over 80 leaders political parties from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi, Uganda, Malawi and Mali have arrived in Uganda for a 4 day...
UN Secretary General, Uganda President to play football
Ugandans are eagerly waiting for a football match in which UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon is expected to play on the same pitch with...
Ugandan women seek protection against men with “big sexual organs”
Women leaders in Uganda want a clause in the domestic relations law that allows them to divorce men with big sexual organs.
During a workshop...