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A mother upon hearing her daughter’s alarm rushes to find out the trouble in Mbarara district, Uganda. she finds a man defiling her daughter and uses her garden knife to cut off his manhood.
Fighting between Ugandan rebels and Sudanese soldiers killed at least 23 people in a remote area near the countries’ border this week, rebel and military officials said.
Stephen Batte works in a quarry under the blazing sun, chipping rocks into gravel with a homemade hammer. It’s tiring, boring and dangerous.
Ten people being held in connection with a fire that killed 19 Ugandan schoolgirls are all school employees, a senior police official said Saturday.
A police spokeswoman says 10 people have been arrested in connection with a fire that killed at least 19 Ugandan schoolgirls.
An overnight fire destroyed a primary school dormitory in Uganda, leaving 19 schoolgirls and two adults dead, police said Tuesday.
An overnight fire a primary school dormitory in Uganda killed 19 school children and two adults, police said Tuesday.
Police in Uganda say a school dormitory caught fire overnight, killing 19 young students and two adults inside.
A fugitive rebel leader failed to show up in a jungle clearing Friday to sign a peace agreement, quashing the latest hopes for a resolution to a vicious Ugandan insurgency.
A peace deal to end one of Africa’s longest wars broke down Friday when a fugitive rebel leader failed to show up in a jungle clearing to sign the agreement, negotiators said.
Officials gave conflicting reports about why Uganda’s fugitive rebel leader did not sign a peace accord Thursday to end one of Africa’s longest wars, raising doubts about the agreement’s fate.
Maurine Akello has done what adults have not been able to do. But then again, who has suffered as much as these bush-girls forced into sexual-slavery in a civil-war torn Uganda. Akello has set up a peer-driven empowering agency, Empowering Hands, for...
An analysis conducted by the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that children in those countries who were forced to fighting wars are more vulnerable to post–war disorders and hence more likely to have a revenge motive burning within...
In a world where Man fights Man, Betty Bigombe has assumed the role of a true Woman.
She has made her way as a peace negotiator through the vicious battle of two powerful men. And she has been successful, at least to some extent. Uganda’s hopes for...
Africa looks set for yet another armed conflict as peace negotiation between the LRA and the Ugandan government in the Southern Sudanese capital, Juba, is on the brink after repeated accusations of infringement of truce from either side.
After...
It was in the last decades of the 20th century, loss of habitat, disease and poaching in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda has disappointingly led to the decreasing number of the gorillas in the last places where mountain gorillas still...
Sipi Falls is one of Uganda’s most romantic and beautiful falls. There are three levels of falls, but the two upper levels are fairly small compared with the main drop.
The fall is about 55km north of Mbale, in the foothills of Mt Elgon and...
Kamilat Mehdi, a twenty one year old girl has been stalked by a person in Eithiopia. While she was on her way back home, the person came from the shadows and threw sulphuric acid on her face. Not only the acid distorted her face but it also disfigured...
Mogadishu has returned to a nightmare only seen in the early days of the civil war. The fighting is worst since the war over the New Year to kick out the Islamists and put President Abdullahi Yusuf’s interim government in the capital.
The...
When one thinks of going to Africa only safaris come to mind, yet it is developing into a region of cultural and sustainable tourism as well.
The Dufile fort was built by the native Madi people, who were among the first tribes in Africa to come ...
350 Ugandan troops of the African Union peacekeeping force arrived in Mogadishu on Tuesday in order to replace Ethiopian troops which have been stationed in Somalia since January helping the government maintain law and order in the volatile country. In...
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