Uganda News

A Tanzanian ship sailing to Portbell Port at Luzira, near Kampala, sunk into Lake Victoria, Police said.

Food insecurity in northern Uganda, a region recovering from two decades of conflict, is approaching crisis levels due to a combination of factors, including bad weather and lack of adequate farm inputs, ...

The water supply for two million residents of the Ugandan capital Kampala is threatened by a combination of ill-planned urbanisation and changing rainfall patterns.

Joachim Chissano, the UN special envoy for LRA-affected areas with the Gulu district leader, Norbert Mao, at Gulu airport on 17 August GULU, 18 August 2008 - The United Nations special envoy for Lord's ...

While the recent arrest of two men suspected of selling dog meat shocked Kampala, the city's abattoirs and butcheries are grappling with problems of their own that could send chills down the stomach of any meat ...

President Yoweri Museveni has said his party, the National Resistance Movement, will never lose a presidential election.

Another Kampala bound Gateway bus has been ambushed by Jie warriors. The incident that took place yesterday morning at about 5.00am comes in less than twenty four hours after another ambush on August14 leaving ...

It is now official. Cargo delivery from Mombasa Port and all border entry ports to the hinterland land locked countries will now be done 24 hrs seven days a week, a move expected to speed up cargo movement on ...

State House and a host of peasants in the mid-western District of Hoima are locked in a bitter row over ownership of some eight square miles of land, Parliament heard yesterday.

By Joyce Namutebi and Cyprian Musoke THE Chinese government is to construct an office block for the President and the prime minister, works state minister John Byabagambi told Parliament yesterday.

Nine people out of 27 cases have so far died of an unidentified epidemic that has hit the western Ugandan district of Kasese in recent weeks, a district official has said.

Quality Chemicals Limited, a local drug manufacturing company will soon produce drugs that stop mother-to-child transmission of HIV/Aids during birth and breastfeeding.

The death toll from hepatitis E in northern Uganda has risen to 106, while 6,563 remain infected with the deadly viral disease, an official has said.

Ugandan authorities have launched a mass circumcision drive with the hope it will reduce HIV/Aids rates in the East African country.

Police Chief Kale Kayihura said yesterday most police departments are infiltrated by rogue elements a day after a senior officer was arrested on suspicion of planning a botched robbery.

By Henry Mukasa and Daniel Edyegu in Budadari, Sironko PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni and the FDC vice-chairman for eastern region, Nathan Nandala Mafabi, clashed in Sironko over the weekend over Bugisu Cooperative ...

Forum for Democratic Change President Dr Kizza Besigye has launched a scathing attack on leaders within the Opposition ranks who are only there "to survive in their positions by serving hidden selfish motives". ...

In what has been described as a long standing inequality in the allocation of public resources, opposition members of parliament have expressed concerns that the Executive's huge budgetary allocations are ...

Inter Press Service 9 August 2008 Joshua Kyalimpa Kampala Uganda's approach to the fight against HIV/AIDS is under scrutiny by activists.

Kampala Former president of Uganda Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa has been summoned to respond to a case in which he is accused of grabbing four plots of land belonging to Ms Rebecca Katumba Bogere.