Christmas is a period when the streets of Kampala, capital city of Uganda, fill up to the brim with people from all corners of the country. A time when pickpockets...

The UPDF has been shaken by the discovery that some of the battle-hardened Al Shabaab militants it is fighting in the volatile Somalia were trained here at...

Malaria is a preventable and curable disease that kills nearly 1 million people, mostly children, every year. This disease continues to kill in large part because so...

The acting Inspector General of Government, Mr Raphael Baku, has issued a hash indictment of government, saying all its various departs are corrupt but only differ in...

The British Broadcasting Corp. suffered criticism from lawmakers Wednesday for inviting debate on whether homosexuals should face execution in Uganda. The broadcaster...

At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control. “I...

Christmas merry making may have come a little early for gender rights’ activists in the country after Parliament yesterday passed a new law that outlaws and...

PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a Bill prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM). The object of the Bill is to provide for legislation necessary for criminalising the...

WOMEN inmates at Luzira Prison have asked to be granted the right to have sex with their husbands within the prison walls. This, they argued, would help in the...

Temperature in Uganda will rose up to 1.5 degree Celsius over the next two decades. Its damaging agriculture and livelihood of whole communities, according population...

Mexico and Climate Change With heavily polluting oil industry, heavy use of road transport, and 110 million people, Mexico accounts for about 1.5% of global emissions....

The Church of Uganda is dismayed with reports of the election of Reverand Mary Glasspool, a gay person, to the status of Bishop in the diocese of Los Angeles in the...

A Ugandan passport must be the easiest document to receive for any foreigner. Just present some money and the rest is history. The country has come under fire from...

Ugandan government allegedly turned a blind eye as Rwandan Hutu rebels drafted fighters from refugee camps in the country, a new UN report says. The report, authored...

Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed. Gordon Brown followed...

Dozens of people were killed in a remote corner of Central African Republic when Ugandan rebels attacked villagers but were then ambushed by Ugandan soldiers, a witness...

Opening a parliamentary conference on maternal and newborn health in Kampala yesterday, President Yoweri Museveni said rampant drug theft in Uganda was partly...

THE Ministry of Ethics and Integrity is investigating the Miss Uganda contest to verify claims that it lacks transparency, promotes immorality and does not reflect...

Idi Amin was called the ‘Butcher of Uganda’ during his reign of terror from 1971 to 1979. Though no-one knows exactly how many people he had murdered and...

A dark cloud continues to gloom over the media industry in Uganda as government of the National Resistance Movement (NRM,) headed by dictatorial General Yoweri...