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 (...)
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 (...)