Uganda News

Oct. 14: Rescue workers and construction workers look for survivors after a basement being constructed collapsed in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

KINSHASA - Congolese army tanks pounded rebel-held hilltops and repelled an attack on a military base in the east on Tuesday in the latest round of fighting that has displaced 150,000 people in six ...

Oct. 14 - Rescue teams in Kampala hold little hope of finding at least 10 construction workers buried in the rubble of a collapsed building in Kampala.

More than 150,000 people have fled fighting between government forces and rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the past six weeks, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said today.

Hepatitis E is on the increase in Uganda's northern district of Pader, where it has claimed scores of lives and infected thousands in the past year, officials said.

THE army yesterday warned the Somali community living in Uganda to cooperate with security agencies to avert the looming terror attack.

NRM MP and former health minister Maj. Gen. Jim Muhwezi was yesterday interrogated by the Criminal Investigations Department for seven hours over the September 25 foiled Stanbic Bank robbery.

Thursday was Independence Day. And, as always, it was time to take stock of where the country stands 46 years on.

KAMPALA, 10 October 2008 - Children living with HIV in Uganda have been given greater access to treatment with a new paediatric HIV care centre opened at the main referral hospital in the capital, Kampala.

John Kibwola, 14, braves the scorching afternoon sun as he sells his collection of plastic bottles along Acholi Street in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu.

Kololo President Yoweri Museveni yesterday confirmed reports that security organisations are on high alert to tackle terrorist groups believed to be planning attacks in urban areas.

GULU, 6 October 2008 - As calm returns to northern Uganda, tens of thousands of people previously living in camps for internally displaced persons camps are now in satellite camps mid-way between the IDP camps ...

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology ; Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 07 Oct 2008 - 8:00 PDT Citing waning efforts to fight HIV/AIDS in Uganda, President Yoweri ...

Kari Stephens, a junior at Bryan High School, prepares to move her bed into a makeshift cardboard dwelling so she can sleep on the school's soccer field Saturday night.

Infrastructure development across much of sub-Saharan Africa will slow down profoundly, hobbled by the drastic drop in aid flows that is expected to follow the credit crisis and general economic downturn ...

Like many cultural events, a male circumcision ceremony in eastern Uganda has its share of governing rules: the "candidate" is not supposed to see the surgeon until seconds before the cutting and his mother ...

Renewed calls for the arrest of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony will create more animosity and hamper any efforts to conclude the ongoing peace process, a senior church leader said.

Police are holding three Uganda People's Defence Force officers who allegedly shot at the car carrying police undersecretary Winnie Kabogoza.

GULU, 6 October 2008 - With the return of relative peace to northern Uganda, thousands of people displaced by the conflict have started the long journey home.

By Chris Kiwawulo and Reuben Olita THE flow of fuel into the country has been interrupted since the Kenyan authorities impounded all four-axle trucks destined for Uganda.