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Kenyan PM warns against conflicts between Kenyan, Ugandan, Tanzanians
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has warned African countries against clashing with each other over trivial issues.
Addressing the press on his visit to Ugandan...
Uganda royal tombs’ arsonist arrested
A man yesterday surprised policemen in Uganda's capital Kampala, when he walked into a Police station and allegedly confessed setting ablaze the Buganda...
EAC steps up preparations for 3rd EAC investment conference / World Bank to launch report on doing business in the EAC at Conference
The East African Community Secretariat has stepped up preparations for the 3rd EAC Investment Conference confirming the date and theme for the event due...
Zuma defends two wanted Rwandans and lifting of Zimbabwe sanctions
South African president Jacob Zuma has defended his country over hosting two wanted army officers from Rwanda, and called on the United Nations to...
Uganda: Zuma urges Africans to support SA 2010 World Cup
South African president Jacob Zuma who is on a three day state visit in Uganda has requested Uganda and other African countries to support...
Uganda under pressure over Bashir’s attendance to key Africa meeting
African heads of state are to deliberate more on maternal, infant and child health, and security matters in the coming AU heads of state...
Uganda: Landslide hit schools relocated to market-place
Over 1000 students who had stopped going to school, due to deadly landslides
that hit three eastern Uganda villages, have today resumed classes in
a market...
Africa: Quiet corruption harming development
“Quiet corruption” can be just as detrimental to a country’s overall economic growth and development as large corruption and bribery scandals that receive much...
Tanzania: 20th ordinary meeting of the EAC Council of Ministers to begin Friday 19 March in Arusha
The 20th Ordinary Meeting of the East African Community Council of Ministers is scheduled to run from 19 to 26 March 2010 at the...
EAC to hold workshop on regional armed forces HIV/AIDS prevention and control
The East African Community has organised a three-day workshop on mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS prevention, control, treatment, care and support into Partner States' national Armed...
International panel engages EAC on agricultural innovation
An International Advisory Panel on Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project led by Professor Calestous Juma of the Harvard Kennedy School, USA, paid a working...
Uganda: Baganda mourn kings’ burnt tombs block President’s visit
Thousands of people in Uganda belonging to the Baganda kingdom have held a riot at the tombs of their late kings, which caught fire...
Ugandan President invites critics to take him to ICC
Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, has revealed that at least five Ugandan soldiers are executed through firing squad every year after being found guilty...
LRA leader Kony “will be hanged in Uganda” says Museveni
Ugandan President has today said that notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels' leader, Joseph Kony has fled into Darfur which is under the government...
EAC heads of prisons/correctional services hold inaugural meeting in Arusha
The inaugural meeting of the EAC Heads of Prisons/Correctional Services ended today at the Naura Springs Hotel in Arusha, Tanzania. The inaugural meeting was...
Ugandan businesses to manufacture goods from Sudan
As business grows and Ugandan businessmen and manufacturers scavenge more for ready market in southern Sudan, companies in Uganda have decided to start manufacturing...
Half a million Ugandans at risk of landslides
500,000 people in Uganda are at a risk of being hit by landslides and floods, the government has said today.
"So far 300,000 people in...
Uganda: Rescuers dig with bare hands, government ‘clueless’
Relief agencies operating in Uganda are blaming government for not
knowing how to handle disasters, saying it’s the reason why many lives
of innocent Ugandans perish...
Uganda: 60 school children feared dead
Some 60 school children in Uganda are feared to be among those who perished in a landslide accident which occurred on Monday night in...
Ugandan minister lashes out at Anglican cleric over gay-bill
Uganda's minister of state for ethics and integrity, James Nsaba Buturo
has condemned the pro-gays who today presented a petition to Uganda's
speaker of parliament requesting...
Uganda: Anglican cleric seeks withdrawal of anti-gay bill
Pro-gays in Uganda have today petitioned Uganda parliament requesting
that the controversial gay bill which was tabled in parliament last year be withdrawn immediately.
The anti-gay...
Tanzania: EAC committees on monetary affairs, fiscal affairs, capital markets, insurance and pensions meet 26 february-2 march in Arusha
A joint meeting of the EAC Monetary Affairs Committee (MAC), Fiscal Affairs Committee (FAC) and Capital Markets, Insurance and Pensions Committee (CMIPC) to consider...
Uganda priest nabbed for BBC hoax was paid to dramatize
Police in Uganda has arrested a Catholic evangelist who told a BBC reporter that he killed 70 people when he was still practicing witchcraft.
Polino...
Gospel Truth Music Ministry Condemns Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill
The Rev. Rizi Nasele Timane' and the Gospel Truth Music Ministry are voicing their support for Uganda's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and...
Sudan Uganda sign joint trade committee agreement
Southern Sudanese and Ugandan traders have welcomed the signing of
an agreement that establishes a joint trade committee responsible for addressing trade problems between the...
Experts meet to harmonize East African Community (EAC) policies and regulations on agricultural inputs
Agricultural experts from the EAC Partner States met at the Kibo Palace Hotel in Arusha, Tanzania recently to discuss harmonization of policies, laws, regulations...
East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) adopts common strategy for food security in the region
The Third Meeting, Third Session of the Second East African Legislative Assembly sitting at the Chambers of the Parliament of Uganda in Kampala has...
Uganda: Christians and Muslims protest Gay Porn shown in churches
A cross section of Christians in Uganda have protested against the showing of pornography in churches as one way of making the public...
East African Judicial Education Committee to meet in Arusha
The East African Judicial Education Committee is scheduled to meet from 18-20 February 2010 at the Kibo Palace Hotel in Arusha, Tanzania to, among...
Uganda police stop anti-gay demonstration
Police in Uganda has stopped a demonstration, in support of the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which was supposed to take place tomorrow in Kampala...