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...

THE five leaders of the East African Community (EAC) have signed a landmark agreement for a common market which allows free movement of people, goods, labour and...

Fourteen people, including a journalist, were yesterday committed to the High Court for trial on treason charges. The decision to commit Mr Patrick Otim, 34, a...

Courts have trouble convicting corrupt bureaucrats because colleagues help destroy incriminating evidence in a “scratch my back, I will scratch yours” syndicate, a...

The Brilliant press secretary to Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni last week repeated his argument that most Ugandan journalists are actually political activists...

The mood of fear has once again reasserted itself in Ugandan society. This comes mainly ahead of the general elections due in 2011. Timothy Kalyegira looks at why?

Uganda’s former army chief James Kazini has been killed at his girlfriend’s flat in the capital, Kampala. A BBC correspondent says Maj Gen Kazini died...

The border between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo is being redrawn — by a river! Technocrats from the two countries are quietly working to head off a...

The gay community in Uganda has turned to social media — blogs, twitter, mailing lists and Facebook — in a bid to garner support for its opposition to the...

The year 2009 shall be best remembered as the ‘Black Year’ in the media fraternity in Uganda and the reasons for this have always been certain. The last...

nalysis of the national voters’ register confirmed that “some ghost voters existed”. Speaking at a monthly caucus of MPs from the ruling party, President Museveni...

THE Government is going to crack down on media houses that publish pornography, ethics minister James Buturo announced on Thursday. Radio stations that advertise...

Ugandan security agencies on Friday foiled a bomb plot in the capital Kampala just a week after Somali militants threatened terror attacks on the city. Gerald...

A primary school head teacher in Luweero District could lose his job amid accusations that he strip-searched five girls who were accused of stealing money from another...