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Uganda anti-homosexual bill: Christians threaten MPs
Christians in Uganda are organizing nationwide demonstrations and fasting to protest US President Barack Obama and growing international opposition to a proposed anti-homosexuality bill.
They...
East Africa: UK and IOM Support East African Community in enhancing free movement of people between partner ptates
The United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) is to sign an agreement with IOM today supporting the East African Community (EAC) in efforts...
Uganda to host first African HIV/AIDS vaccine research centre
Uganda has been voted to host the secretariat of Africa’s first HIV/AIDS vaccine research center at the ongoing 5th forum of the African AIDS...
Uganda-DR Congo: Soldiers torture and pillage mourners
Authorities from the Democratic Republic of Congo are investigating allegations made by a group of over 20 Ugandan mourners, from northern Uganda, that they...
Uganda declared guinea worm free zone by WHO
Investigations carried out by an international committee throughout Uganda have revealed that there has not been a single reported case of guinea worm infection...
Uganda: Bahati defends gay rights death penalty bill
Uganda MP Bahati accused of calling for a “gay death penalty” says he has been misrepresented and is only trying to criminalize child abusers....
Uganda: Pepsi in trouble for sponsoring anti-gay concert
Pepsi is in the line of fire for having sponsored a concert by Beenie Man, a homophobic singer, in Uganda over the weekend, reports...
Ugandans killed in Southern Sudan over Khartoum support
Five Ugandan businessmen have been killed in violent clashes between Police and protestors in the Southern Sudanese town of Rumbek.
The protests started on Monday...
Uganda beefs up security amid al-Shabab terrorist threats
Security in Uganda has been tightened up due to fear of Somali's al-Shabab militia attacks. More guards have been placed at security installations in...
Uganda: Gays, HIV+ people will be killed, sympathisers jailed
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is pushing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive gay men. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 seeks...
Uganda: A history of politically motivated violence, intimidation, bribery
Uganda’s government should reform the country’s election laws to improve accountability for election-related crimes and reduce the risk of violence in the upcoming 2011...
Uganda police save underage Sudanese from forced marriage, mother on the run
Police in Uganda have stopped a forced marriage between a 17 year old girl and a 56 year old southern Sudanese soldier from taking...
CECAFA 2009: Zambia breaks Kenya’s heart in opening football match
Hosts 'Harambe Stars' of Kenya started on a horrendous note loosing 2-0 to the clinical 'Chipolopolo boys' of Zambia, in the first match of...
Kenya-Uganda: Traders sell food mixed with soil and sand
Kenyans living in the Uganda-Kenya border towns of Malaba and Busia have appealled to the Uganda government to arrest and deal with traders who...
Snow-capped mountain in DRC and Uganda melting at an alarming rate
Environmentalists and politicians from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda have expressed concerns over the rate at which Rwenzori mountain snow is melting....
Uganda blames South Sudan officials for President’s plane crash scare
The President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, has finally returned home several hours after the plane he was traveling in narrowly escaped...
Southern Sudan: No sabotage involved in President’s plane crash
Salva Kiir, President of Southern Sudan, has this morning survived a plane crash at the Gulu airfiled in northern Uganda. The accident occured when...
Uganda: Former LRA child soldiers undergo rehabilitation
A number of former child soldiers of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) are currently receiving help from various centres in Uganda. The rehabilitation centres...
Uganda-United States: Should We Send Aid?
Stumbled across this blurb over on the Atlantic (which stumbled across it on The Independent Gay Forum). Writer Jamie Kirchick doesn't think aid money...
Uganda: Heritage Oil to sell two Uganda oil fields
The exploration company Heritage Oil has agreed to sell its stakes in two Uganda oil fields to Italy’s Eni for $1.5bn, reports BBC. Heritage...
Uganda: Kenyan and Sudanese refugees refuse to go back home
About 4000 refugees from Sudan and Kenya are stranded at Kiryandongo refugee settlement camp located 250 kms north of Uganda's capital Kampala.
Whereas the government...
Uganda: South Sudanese register to vote following threats of boycott
The Sudanese embassy in Uganda has started registering Sudanese nationals living in Uganda ahead of their 2010 elections. The registration follows threats by the...
Kenya-Tanzania-Rwanda-Uganda-Burundi: East Africa leaders to agree on trade deal
The Presidents of Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi are due to sign a common market treaty later today. The leaders are expected to...
Uganda: Cabinet meets to discuss Land Bill
The Ugandan Cabinet held a special meeting in Kampala yesterday to discuss progress on the Land Amendment Bill and the probe into the 2007...
Pan Africa: Africa population tops a billion
The population in Africa has passed the one billion mark, the UN Population Fund (UNPF) says in a report. UNPF Executive Director Thoraya Obeid...
Uganda: Escaped LRA fighters and abducted children return home
Nine former fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and abducted children, who recently escaped from captivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),...
Congolese sex workers attacked for infecting Ugandans with HIV/AIDs
The government of Uganda is concerned about a great number of Congolese sex workers who have recently invaded Karamoja region in North eastern Uganda...
Southern Sudan: LRA rebels resume reign of fear, several people killed
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have resumed attacks on villages in southern Sudan killing several civilians in the last four days.
Last year a joint...
Uganda first lady urges men to embrace family planning
The biggest ever international family planning conference yesterday night opened in Uganda's capital Kampala with over 2000 delagates from all over the world participating....
Kenya-Uganda: Several bodies recovered in fatal Lake Victoria boat accident
26 out of 50 people who were travelling in a big boat on lake Victoria in Uganda got drowned Thursday night. The police officer...