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Ugandans protest against Obama and anti-gay bill
Over 4000 Ugandan supporters of the anti-gay bill yesterday demonstrated in Uganda's eastern town of Jinja against US president Barrack Obama and all...
Uganda police prepare in Kenya to train Somali police
124 Ugandan police officers have today left for Somalia. The police officers have been deployed to train Somali Police under the African Union...
Uganda: Hunt for aid convoy attackers begin
The army in Uganda is hunting for Karamojong warriors who killed three people including a policeman in a convoy of an international aid...
Uganda economy records nearly US$2 billion in ’09 from regional trade
President Yoweri Museveni has reaffirmed the need for regional integration as one of the avenues that can boost economic growth and prosperity.
In his...
Southern Sudan-Uganda: First trade show opens in juba
The first ever trade show exhibition involving traders, businessmen and
industrialists from Uganda and southren Sudan is to be held starting on
Wednseday in the southern...
Uganda official warns Obama to keep off gay-bill
Uganda government has advised US president Barack Obama to give
Ugandans a chance to determine their destiny by making laws appropriate
to their society.
The advise comes...
Uganda: Obama ridicules anti-gay bill
U.S. President, Mr. Barrack Obama has condemned the sponsor of Uganda gay bill, and questioned Uganda’s conscientiousness, in a breakfast meeting he held with...
Uganda elders seek LRA talks, officials reject efforts
The people in northern Uganda, where the rebel group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fought Ugandan government troops for over twenty years, want the...
U.K. condemns Uganda bill
The British high commissioner to Uganda, Martin Shearman, has said that
Britain is against some of the components of the HIV-AIDS prevention and control bill....
Ugandans donate to Haiti
The government of Uganda and Ugandans have so far collected 300,000,000 Uganda shillings, (equivalent of 1.5 million US dollars) towards assisting people affected by...
Uganda: Gays demand parliamentary representation
Uganda's minister of ethics and integrity, Nsaba Buturo has said that gays can not be represented in parliament as some of them are reportedly...
Uganda Shilling dips against US dollar
Bank Of Uganda (BOU) yesterday revealed that the eastern African country's shilling had depreciated by 1.2 per cent in the past month alone.
It attributed...
Ugandans donate to Haiti disaster victims
The high commission of the republic of Trinidad and Tobago in Uganda has yesterday launched the Haiti disaster appeal fund at a ceremony held...
Uganda: Several die in road accident
15 traders died and twenty got severely injured Saturday night when a lorry they were traveling in overturned in Kamuli district, in eastern Uganda.
According...
Uganda: Thousands of children demonstrate in favour of anti-gay bill
Thousands of children in Uganda Friday demonstrated against homosexuality on the streets of the country's capital Kampala.
The children carried placards supporting the anti-gay...
Uganda gets tough on rivaling foreign oil companies
The government of Uganda has threatened to throw out rivaling oil companies in the country if their disagreements threaten the exploration of...
U.S. Pressure Against Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill Rises as Ugandan, American Human Rights Activists Testify Before Congress
Ugandan and American human rights activists came together today to testify against the proposed Uganda "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" at a hearing of the Tom Lantos...
Arusha: East African Community to monitor elections in partner states
Conflicts created by flawed elections in any EAC country would impact negatively on the integration process, says Hon. Kiraso
The office charged with Political Affairs...
Uganda: Anti-gays launch campaign against US, UK, Canada…
Anti gays in Uganda have resolved to mobilize Ugandans to stop buying goods from United States and the other countries which are threatening to...
Italian foreign minister promises support to Somalia and Uganda
The Italian minister of foreign affairs, Franco Frattini has said that the government of Italy has committed itself to support, by training and helping...
Uganda: DRC, Kenya, Somalia experience eclipse of the sun
Ugandans were today treated to a morning show of the eclipse of the sun by the moon.
Hundreds of people looked at the sky for...
Uganda: President finally speaks out on anti-gay bill
The president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has requested Ugandans to go slow on the controversial anti-gay bill.
While addressing members of his ruling party,...
Uganda: Local gin mixture ‘nguli’ kills several
An illicit gin locally called nguli has killed 120 people in Uganda in the last six months.
Since January 2010 began, 10 people have died...
Uganda anti-gay bill author clarifies killing people over small issues
The author of the controversial anti-gay bill which was recently tabled in Uganda's parliament, David Bahati, has said that pro-gays in Uganda and the...
Uganda to withdraw anti-gay bill as economy nosedives
The controversial anti-gay bill which was recently tabled in Uganda's parliament could soon be withdrawn by Uganda's government. According to Uganda's minister of state...
Lord’s Resistance Army waves the white flag, after Christmas massacre
In an unprecedented move, the Ugandan rebel group, Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), has announced that it is tired of fighting and wants peace.
It's spokesman,...
Lord’s Resistance Army attacks DR Congo village and kills many
Reports from Democratic republic of Congo (DRC) reveal that Lord's Resistance Army rebels attacked villages in very remote areas of Isiro -Niangara county in...
DR Congo rebels training in Uganda
Democratic republic of Congo has complained that rebels who have plans to attack it are recruited and trained in Uganda.
Congolese adminstrator of Arua territory,...
Gay Uganda and the Broken Body of Christ
There is a scene in the comedy, ‘In and Out’, in which Joan Cusack, playing a bride left at the altar by her gay...
Ugandan officials say anti-homosexual law will be passed
Groups of Christians today demonstrated in Uganda's capital Kampala against first world donor countries which are against the anti-homosexual bill which was recently tabled...