Uganda News

Gulu The northern Uganda region, just settling from two decades of the Joseph Kony-led LRAa s brutal military campaign, is on the verge of slipping into another rebellion, at least according to official accounts.

A woman walks through a Ugandan refugee camp, where an angry mob stoned and burned to death three women they accused of being witches in 2007.

THE population of domestic animals in the country has gone up, according to the latest national livestock census.

Kampala The outgoing United States Ambassador to Uganda, Mr Steven Browning, has said he is disappointed by the governmenta s slow pace of rebuilding the north, which has suffered a two-decade war.

Figures from the URA indicate a revenue collection shortfall of about 43 million dollars between July 2008 and January 2009.

Kampala The ping-pong between the Central government and the cultural Kingdom of Buganda has taken another twist after Mengo, in a 26-page statement, warned the government against a proposal to create a metropolitan authority for the capital city, Kampala.

By Cyprian Musoke PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has criticised Mengo for alleging that by expanding and administering Kampala, the Government was taking away Buganda's land.

A Bill on the prevention and prohibition of torture in Uganda will soon be tabled before Parliament, human rights activists said on Friday.

Kampala In the wee hours of Friday morning at exactly 1.25am local time, Michael Jackson, commonly known as the King of Pop, was pronounced dead by doctors at the UCLA Medical Centre Los Angeles after succumbing to a fatal heart attack.

Kampala - An upsurge in violence in Uganda's remote Karamoja region has left more than 50 people dead over the past month, according to military and United Nations statistics obtained on Tuesday.

UGANDA is to start exporting sugar and rice to the European Union duty and quota-free, the state trade minister has said.

Two died at the rally for presidential contender Kizza Besigye The sentencing of a Ugandan policeman who opened fire on an opposition rally, killing two people, has been condemned as too lenient by activists.

Jennifer Nankinga fed her ailing child from a hospital bed in Kayunga, north of Kampala, despite a strong stench from dirty toilets that filled the air in the paediatric ward.

NAIROBI, 24 June 2009 - About 40 percent of HIV-positive Ugandan patients are already ill or displaying symptoms of AIDS when they are diagnosed, a new study in the latest issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes has found.

Human rights activists and opposition politicians yesterday reacted angrily to the 14-year jail sentence handed out to Special Police Constable Ramathan Magara by Justice Wilson Kwesiga for two counts of manslaughter.

Uganda has lost nearly a third of its forests in the last two decades and could lose most of its tree cover in about 40 years unless measures are quickly taken to reverse the situation, environmentalists have said.

Developing countries aim to cut the proportion of people without safe drinking water in half by the year 2015, as stipulated by the United Nation's Millennium Goals.

KAMPALA, 22 June 2009 - New HIV prevention campaigns in Uganda are beginning to reflect the complexity of sexual relations, but experts warn they constitute only a small first step.

A total of 23 districts in Uganda lost their forests, mainly in eastern and northern Uganda, according to the 2008 State of Environment Report which has just been released by the National Environment Management Authority.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has ruled out the reform of the electoral laws ahead of the 2011 elections, the key demand of the opposition.