Uganda News

Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 2:47 a.m. KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan officials say they are offended that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised former dictator Idi Amin.

The Ugandan security forces in Central Africa Republic have killed a senior LRA rebels Commander near Obo town in CAR, an Army spokesperson has confirmed.

The East African community doesna t apply here, the immigration official at this Northern Tanzanian airport barked out at my attempt to seek a more East African reception with my Ugandan passport as I processed my entry into Tanzania recently.

It is a love affair that dates back 50 years and stretches several thousand miles around the globe from a tranquil Norfolk village via generous EDP readers to the heartland of Africa.

Through its conversion therapy programs, Exodus International claims it can change homosexuals to heterosexuals if they want it bad enough.

Kampala Fourteen people, including a journalist, were yesterday committed to the High Court for trial on treason charges.

With northern Uganda at relative peace following years of war wreaked by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, activists are now worried about rising outbreaks of domestic violence.

Kampala - The girlfriend of a former Ugandan army chief, accused by the UN of plundering resources during Uganda's invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been charged with his murder in Kampala, a court official said on Tuesday.

A Ugandan government official said the bodies of those who die because of drinking a local illicit gin should be caned six times before burial as an example to the living.

LYDIA DRARU, alias Atim, the woman suspected to have killed Maj. Gen. James Kazini, was yesterday charged with murder and remanded in Luzira prison.

President Museveni has joined the anti-gay crusade, saying he had received reports suggesting that "European homosexuals" had launched a recruitment drive in Africa.

The Uganda AIDS Commission is revamping its national HIV information campaign after HIV prevention messages were less successful than hoped.

The death of former army commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini last week-- apparently in the hands of a lover- was deeply appalling and a cause of deep grief for his family, friends and the entire country.

The prestigious World Cup trophy on a world tour has finally arrived in the East African country of Uganda on Saturday night.

A Ugandan government official says the bodies of those who die because of drinking a local illicit gin should be caned six times before burial as an example to the living.

Shores Yoga in Miami Shores will host fundraiser for underserved and underprivileged parts of the world The women at Shores Yoga in Miami Shores are giving their chakras a workout.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has ordered a police investigation into the death of ex-army chief James Kazini.

THE local council chief of Wabigalo project zone, where former army commander Maj.

About 40 Muslim extremists with machetes and clubs tried to break into a Sunday worship service outside Uganda's capital city of Kampala on Nov.

The mother of one of Africa's most notorious rebel leaders relayed one last wish for her son before her death, according to a nurse at her deathbed: Make peace.