Uganda News

The country's Anglicans yesterday added their voice against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

CLOSE to $260m worth of goods was traded between Uganda and southern Sudan last year, Nelson Gaggawala Wambuzi, the trade state minister, has said.

THE Government and business community have not taken full advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act , Jerry Lanier, the US ambassador to Uganda, has said.

BY VISION REPORTER President Yoweri Museveni met European Union ambassadors on Wednesday to discuss issues concerning democracy, corruption and press freedom in Uganda.

Free primary and secondary education has lifted Uganda's ranking on the UN Human Development Index .

US President Barack Obama criticised the controversial anti-gay Bill that is being considered by Uganda's parliament.

By Christine Bako Abia Posted Friday, February 5 2010 at 00:00 So ita s now official.

Mugisha Muntu has said he never considered overthrowing President Yoweri Museveni when he served as army chief because he does not believe in military coups.

A leading UK environmental campaign group says that both the British and Ugandan governments are complicit in allowing oil exploration deals in Uganda which are likely to lead to excessive profits for the oil companies and little benefit for the people.

THE World Bank has granted Uganda $228m loan to improve the transport and agricultural sectors, the country manager, Kundavi Kadiresan, has said.

News round-up: US tells Uganda it must better manage its elections; calls for more funding for regional cooperation; event marks 20 years of UK/Uganda Aids research; Museveni becomes east Africa's longest serving leader A woman folds her ballot paper at a polling station in Kampala, Uganda, during the 2006 election.

The Constitutional Court is yet to determine whether or not to permanently block the trial of Forum for Democratic Change leader Dr Kizza Besigye and 10 others on the offence of treason and other offences emerging from the same before various courts in the country.

First Lady Janet Museveni's convoy was on Saturday involved in an accident on the Kampala-Gulu highway.

A late night at Boatwright Memorial Library usually means snuggling on couches with lattes and laptops, but for the members of Givology Spiders it means planning how to raise funds to keep a child in Uganda in school.

On Wednesday Uganda celebrated two-and-a half decades of the National Resistance Movement rule under which the country has prospered.

The recently published HRW World Report 2010 features a particular chapter on Uganda whereby the monstrous tyrannys practices and policies are summarily exposed and utterly denounced.

Sen. Jim Inhofe has taken some 20 trips to Africa over the years with "missionary" agendas.

Two Ugandans died and five others sustained severe injuries when a building under construction on Luwum Street in Kampala collapsed on Tuesday morning.

FORMER Kenyan leader Daniel Arap Moi yesterday called for peaceful elections in the region and urged political leaders to learn to accept defeat.

UGANDA will start producing crude oil this year, Tullow Oil, the Irish firm exploring for oil and gas in Uganda, disclosed.