AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- Climate change will cause more extreme weather incoming years, making winter days colder and summer hotter, with increased risks of floods and droughts in some regions of the world, a new UN report warned (...)
Two Ugandans have been jailed after pleading guilty to terrorism charges related to a coordinated bomb attack on the capital last year that killed 79 people watching the world cup final in, according to Reuters.
Kampala's High Court handed Edris (...)
At least 23 people have been killed in a landslide in eastern Uganda after torrential rain, the Red Cross said on Monday, according to Reuters.
"We have so far confirmed 23 people dead in Mabono and Meru villages in Bulambuli district but we have (...)
Ugandan teachers went on strike on Thursday over low salaries and demanded a 100 percent pay rise to go back to work, a senior union official said, the latest in a spate of protests to grip the east African nation, according to Reuters.
The (...)
Ugandan officials say 22 students and a teacher died after lightning struck their school in the country's midwest, according to AP.
Local police spokeswoman Zura Ganyana said Wednesday that 51 students between the ages of 7 and 16 were injured (...)
Uganda's Ministry of Health on Saturday confirmed that the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever has broken out in the East African Country.
Paul Kagwa, assistant commissioner of health promotion and education, told Xinhua by telephone that the disease (...)
The rare and deadly Ebola virus has killed a 12-year-old Ugandan girl and health officials said on Saturday they expected more cases, according to Reuters.
The girl from Luwero district, 75 km (45 miles) north of the capital Kampala, died on May 6, (...)
Ugandan police shot at a crowd in the capital Kampala after it attacked a car carrying Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan who had attended President Yoweri Museveni's inauguration, Reuters quoted a government spokesman as saying.
At least one (...)
Police briefly detained a Ugandan opposition leader on Thursday during public protests, but politicians escaped the violence meted out to the most prominent opposition figure last week in an arrest that sparked riots, according to Reuters.
Kizza (...)
Awwal 25, 1432 / April 29, 2011, SPA -- At least two people were killed on Friday in the Ugandan capital as police fired live bullets and teargas to try to quell protests across the city over the arrest of an opposition leader, according to (...)
Awwal 14, 1432, April 18, 2011, SPA -- Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested on Monday during a protest against high food and fuel prices in the capital Kampala, police said.
"Besigye has been arrested on the road as he walked with (...)
Akhir 10, 1432 H/March 15, 2011, SPA -- The Ugandan government Tuesday sealed an agreement
with a consortium of foreign firms led by Britain's Tullow Oil PLC to
extract oil and gas from its 2.5-billion-barrel western oil fields, according to (...)
Awwal 29, 1432 H/March 4, 2011, SPA -- Uganda's planned investment more than double in February compared to the previous month, helped by the passage of a presidential election, Reuters quoted the state-run Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) as (...)
Awwal 27, 1432 H/March 2, 2011, SPA -- Forecast poor rains have dashed Uganda's hopes for a higher maize harvest this year with production expected to be unchanged from last year, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
The ministry of (...)
Awwal 22, 1432 H/Feb 25, 2011, SPA -- Uganda's recently re-elected president says he will «eat» his challenger who disputed poll results and called for peaceful protests, AP reported.
President Yoweri Museveni said Friday of Kizza Besigye, who took (...)
Awwal 21, 1432 H/Feb 24, 2011, SPA -- The Ugandan candidate who lost to President Yoweri Museveni in this month's vote is calling for peaceful protests in response to what he called a rigged election, AP reported.
Kizza Besigye, who took 26 percent (...)
Awwal 16, 1432 H/Feb 19, 2011, SPA -- Veteran leader Yoweri Museveni was on course to extend his rule to 30 years after provisional results on Saturday gave him a commanding lead, but the opposition said the presidential election had been fixed, (...)
Awwal 15, 1432 H/Feb 18, 2011, SPA -- Millions of Ugandans lined up to vote Friday in the east African nation's presidential ballot pitting the country's long-serving president against his former ally and personal physician, officials (...)
Awwal 15, 1432 H/Feb 18, 2011, SPA -- Ballot counting got underway in Uganda Friday after a day of voting in presidential and parliamentary polls, dpa reported.
Of the eight candidates standing, Kizza Besigye, runner-up in
2006, is considered the (...)
At least 45 people have died from yellow fever in
northern Uganda since early November, dpa cited the Health Ministry as saying in a
statement Friday.
A total of 174 people have been infected in nine districts across
the north of the East (...)
Hijjah 03, 1431H, Nov 09, 2010, SPA -- The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Member Country Partnership Strategy (MCPS) with the Republic of Uganda which will be the vehicle for IDB Group support (...)
Uganda on Thursday joined Rwanda in rubbishing a
United Nations report accusing the countries of committing atrocities
against civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The report by the office of the UN's human rights chief, due to (...)
Some 32 people were charged with terrorism, murder and attempted murder in Uganda on Tuesday, in connection with the July 11 bombings that left dozens dead in the capital Kampala.
Twin bomb blasts tore through crowds of people watching the (...)
An aid official said five children in Uganda died during a landslide that hit their home as they slept, while their parents survived.
Regional Red Cross coordinator Kevin Nabutuwa said the landslide swept through the home early Saturday, burying (...)
African leaders on Tuesday asked the United
Nations to suspend an arrest warrant against Sudan's president, Omar
al-Bashir, to allow them to carry out their own investigation, reported the dpa.
The International Criminal Court accuses al-Bashir (...)