Uganda News

Uganda loses nearly 100,000hectares of forest cover annually through encroachment, exposing the population to the risks and costly consequences of climate change.

Uganda 's police continued a siege at the offices of the Daily Monitor, the East African nation's biggest independent daily newspaper, for a fourth day as the authorities snubbed a court order to remove the cordon.

Youths from the Bagisu tribe escort Ronald Makwankwa after his circumcision ceremony in Mbale, 220 km east of the Ugandan capital of Kampala, August 12, 2008.

A startling revelation has been made in Parliament - some of the Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels are former trainees of the SANDF.

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A driver at Tororo Hospital has been given a sack over an alleged case of indiscipline and lack of respect for the departed.

Uganda is a landlocked independent republic with a democratic government which lies between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya and forms part of the East African Region.

KAMPALA, Republic of Uganda, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Waterfund LLC and IBM today announced that they have signed an agreement with the Ministry of Water and Environment of the Republic of Uganda that makes the country the first in Africa to become a member of the pioneering Water Cost Index .

Social entrepreneurs Kris Chinosorn, Vince Leung and Kristin Demidovich from MentorMob have found a model for improving online education for everyone and at the same time they're working to rescue victims of trafficking and abuse in Uganda through their Kwagala Project .

Publishers of Rushyashya and Impamo newspapers which are printed from the Daily Monitor say the Uganda police has blocked their copies from leaving the premises to Rwanda .

If you haven't seen the new Pallaso & The Mess video, you clearly don't spend enough time on the Internet.

A high ranking Sudanese official said Uganda has to stop its support to the rebel groups in Darfur, if it wants to help to bring peace in the troubled region.

An African regional seminar on "The Juche Idea and Lesson for Independent Reform of Africa" took place in Kampala, Uganda on May 11.

The Ruling National Resistance Movement has petitioned the Constitutional Court challenging the legality of the ruling by Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga that the four MPs who were expelled from the party retain their seats.

Court has this afternoon ordered the Uganda Police Force to immediately vacate Monitor Publications premises, citing overstepping of the search warrant.Nakawa Magistrate Rosemary Bareebe, the same magistrate who had earlier issued a search warrant to a one D/ASP Emmanuel Mbonimpa, reversed her decision.

The World Bank pledged $1 billion on Wednesday to fund development in central Africa's Great Lakes region in return for peace, but fresh fighting in eastern Congo underscored the challenges facing the area.

The Uganda Red Cross Society has said Kasese flood victims need up to 11 million litres of safe water if disease is to be avoided, amid fears of a cholera outbreak.

By Matsiko Kahunga Facts and figures speak louder than words and arguments! This is how I cooled down tempers among pessimist peers at my workplace, as hot arguments criss-crossed offices over the latest version of the Youth Fund: Sh32b for graduates to start business.

Doris Atwijukire On May 21, 2013, the new vision news paper carried a story entitled "focus shifts to small power plants as fate of Karuma remains uncertain". First, we thank the Government for taking the initiative and deciding well on what is good for our electricity sector and our country at large.

During a birthday party of Zari's mother at Kampala Serena Hotel, Faridah is said to have invited Wasswa and introduced him as a celebrity to the guests at the party.