Uganda News

A new Ugandan study adds to a growing body of evidence that providing home-based antiretroviral care in low-income settings can be as effective as facility-based interventions.

Gulu South Sudan President Salva Kiir was yesterday held up in Gulu for nearly seven hours after he survived an incident in which the plane carrying him ruptured a tyre.

BY RAYMOND BAGUMA UGANDA'S population is soon clocking 33 million people and the country will hit over 90 million people in the next 40 years.

Commonwealth leaders meeting in Trinidad this week face a "crisis summit" as they battle the global recession and calls for action on climate change, the body's chief says.

It's now official. The oil find in blocks 1 and 3A in the Albertine region are gone to leading Italian multi-national company, Eni S.p.A. Heritage Oil Plc, hitherto operators of the wells, yesterday confirmed media reports it had sold its stakes here at $1.5 billion .

University of Alberta graduate student Jennifer Heys wants to make her message clear: there needs to be more education in Ugandan communities about contraception.

Kyambadde declares her intention to stand as MP as busieness tycoons Francis Kakumba, Sudhir Ruparelia, Godfrey Kirumira, Meddie Ssebaggala and Gordon Wavamunno show their support at Nswanjere Primary School on Saturday By Jude Kafuuma Leaders of Mawokota North in Mpigi district have asked the principal private secretary of President Yoweri ...

Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 2:47 a.m. KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan officials say they are offended that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised former dictator Idi Amin.

The Ugandan security forces in Central Africa Republic have killed a senior LRA rebels Commander near Obo town in CAR, an Army spokesperson has confirmed.

The East African community doesna t apply here, the immigration official at this Northern Tanzanian airport barked out at my attempt to seek a more East African reception with my Ugandan passport as I processed my entry into Tanzania recently.

It is a love affair that dates back 50 years and stretches several thousand miles around the globe from a tranquil Norfolk village via generous EDP readers to the heartland of Africa.

Through its conversion therapy programs, Exodus International claims it can change homosexuals to heterosexuals if they want it bad enough.

Kampala Fourteen people, including a journalist, were yesterday committed to the High Court for trial on treason charges.

With northern Uganda at relative peace following years of war wreaked by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, activists are now worried about rising outbreaks of domestic violence.

Kampala - The girlfriend of a former Ugandan army chief, accused by the UN of plundering resources during Uganda's invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been charged with his murder in Kampala, a court official said on Tuesday.

A Ugandan government official said the bodies of those who die because of drinking a local illicit gin should be caned six times before burial as an example to the living.

LYDIA DRARU, alias Atim, the woman suspected to have killed Maj. Gen. James Kazini, was yesterday charged with murder and remanded in Luzira prison.

President Museveni has joined the anti-gay crusade, saying he had received reports suggesting that "European homosexuals" had launched a recruitment drive in Africa.

The Uganda AIDS Commission is revamping its national HIV information campaign after HIV prevention messages were less successful than hoped.

The death of former army commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini last week-- apparently in the hands of a lover- was deeply appalling and a cause of deep grief for his family, friends and the entire country.