Amnesty International urged Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni Wednesday to reject a tough anti-gay bill passed by parliament.

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has described gay people as deviants in a presidential address to parliament.

Most of the world had not heard of Joseph Kony before then, but Ugandans knew and feared him. He remains at large.

President Ramaphosa has been slammed for welcoming Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni just as a new draconian anti-LGBTIQ+ bill was introduced

Tanzania’s government gave its approval on Tuesday for the construction of a $3.5 billion crude oil pipeline despite human rights and environmental concerns.

A Ugandan court gave bail to two opposition lawmakers who had been in jail for nearly 18 months after being charged over a wave of grisly murders.

Ugandan authorities announced the removal of a rainbow painting from a children’s park following an uproar among parents who alleged that the “satanic” design.

Uganda said on Monday it was expecting to declare an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged late last year and has claimed the lives of at least 56 people.

Ugandan police said Monday they had arrested a shopping mall manager and a concert MC over a deadly stampede at a New Year’s Eve party, bringing the total detained over the tragedy to three.

Ugandan police charged a nightclub promoter over a stampede at a New Year’s Eve party in the capital Kampala that killed 10 people, mainly children.

Uganda has extended a six-week lockdown on two districts at the epicentre of an an Ebola outbreak that has claimed 55 lives.

An estimated 15 million pupils in the East African nation did not attend school for 83 weeks – that’s almost two years.

Three candidate vaccines against the Ebola virus wreaking havoc in Uganda will be shipped to the East African country next week for trials.

Uganda has urged foreign visitors not to cancel plans over fears of the Ebola outbreak in the East African nation.

Uganda is set to close schools nationwide later this month after eight children die from Ebola, the country’s first lady said on Tuesday.

The World Health Organization warned that Ebola’s arrival in the Ugandan capital highlighted the risk of further spread of the deadly virus.

The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to nine, the health ministry said Friday, two weeks after an epidemic erupted.

The ‘Immorality ban’ on the Nyege Nyege festival has seemingly backfired as this attracted more people than ever including 5 000 tourists.

The Ugandan government suspended LGBT rights organisation called (Sexual Minorities Uganda) SMUG for ‘operating illegally’ in the country

Roland Enuwese Esosa is believed to be the mastermind of a syndicate called ‘Black Axe’ which targets women in need of campanionship.

Uganda announced Tuesday it was suspending mandatory Covid testing at the border with Kenya after the measure caused huge truck queues, disrupting fuel supplies across the country.

A court in Uganda on Tuesday charged a prominent author and government critic with “disturbing” the country’s veteran President Yoweri Museveni and his powerful son in unflattering social media posts.

Uganda ended the world’s longest school closure on Monday, ordering millions of students back to the classroom nearly two years after learning was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Ugandan troops will spend no more time in the Democratic Republic of Congo helping to fight rebels than “strictly necessary”, President Felix Tshisekedi pledged on Monday.

Uganda has become the first country in East Africa to confirm the new COVID-19 variant since it was first identified by South African scientists last month.