After the seizure of smuggled goods from the Congo, the Ugandan customs found more than 3 tons of ivory in a container. The officers have found 762 elephant tusks or parts of them with a...
In Uganda, protests broke out on Friday after parliamentarian and pop star Bobi Wine was stopped at the airport. Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, and another opposition member wanted to be treated medically abroad. They would have been tortured when they were in detention.
A fleeing elephant killed an eight-year-old boy in Uganda. The animal grabbed the student with his trunk and hit him to the ground, the Daily Monitor newspaper reports.
Due to an accident with a bus with refugees from Burundi, at least nineteen people were killed in Uganda, mostly children.
In the east of Uganda, a fifty-year-old woman passed away from the dangerous marburg virus. Ten employees who took care of her at a hospital in Kapchorwa near the border with Kenya were placed under quarantine, said Health Minister Jane Aceng.
In Uganda's parliament, fiery fighting was broken and tampered with chairs before a debate on whether President Yoweri Museveni has to get a new deadline. Fights both government and opposition members took part in the fighting.
By attacking the terrorist militia al-Shabaab on peacekeepers of the African Union (AU) in Somalia, twelve Ugandan soldiers have been killed. Seven soldiers were also injured, the Ugandan Ministry of Defense said Monday.
Uganda began withdrawing troops from the Central African Republic. The soldiers were there to hunt warlord Joseph Kony, which is still on the run. However, the mission of the troops is completed, the Ugandan army said on Wednesday.
Fighting between security forces and separatist fighters this weekend in western Uganda have fallen 55 deaths. A police spokesman in the region said that fourteen officers and 41 members of a militia in the city of Kasese Saturday were killed. Kasese is located about 250 kilometers west of the capital Kampala.
Police in Uganda Thursday evening violently put an end to an event for gay, lesbian and transgender people. That raises human rights organization Human Rights Watch Friday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is his visit to Africa began Monday in Uganda. At the airport of Entebbe he attended a ceremony in memory of, among others, his brother Yonatan, who was a colonel in the army.
Five men were sentenced Friday by a court in Uganda to life imprisonment for the bloody bombings of soccer fans in Kampala in 2010, which killed 76 people. According among the convicts the mastermind behind the attack, which was claimed by terrorist group al-Shabaab.
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been indicted for treason because he disputed election victory of President Yoweri Museveni and himself as 'alternative president' has declared. That said, a government spokesman Saturday.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (71) Thursday in Kampala sworn in for another term of five years.
The forensic team that traveled to Uganda last week to find the missing Sophia Koetsier, after a few days stoppage yet been launched. An anonymous benefactor from the African country guarantees the costs and their safety.
One of the candidates against the previous month reelected Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is fighting the election on. Museveni won thanks to widespread irregularities, says former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi. He has asked the Supreme Court to annul the results.
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda seems almost certainly a new term. With about half the votes counted, Museveni stands at 60 percent. But his main opponent, Kizza Besigye, a fraud was committed on a large scale.
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is Friday for the third time this week arrested by police. That happened in riots at the headquarters of his party FDC in the capital Kampala.
The Ugandan opposition leader Thursday on the day of the election were arrested. That is a spokeswoman for Kizza Besigye's FDC party said.
Pope Francis fly Wednesday to Africa, where he touches three countries over six days. During his first visit to the African continent, he is a guest in Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic. The trip will focus on two things: faith and the extensive security measures.
