Uganda News

By Vision Reporter President Yoweri Museveni has commended the Chinese government for its aid programme for Africa, which includes $10b in concessionary loans.

MASINDI, 10 November 2009 - Forced repatriation of displaced persons in Uganda to their original homes in the north is "inhuman and against the government policy of voluntary return", local officials have said.

By Hope Mafaranga, John Thawite and Bernard Masereka The Lord Resistance Army has been weakened but is not defeated, army chief Gen.

For a capital city, the state of Kampala's roads is appallingly inapt and an embarrassment.

SECURITY is investigating reports that a number of Al Shabaab Islamists have entered the country following their threat to strike Kampala and Bujumbura last month.

The Catholic Church yesterday denounced domestic violence and vowed to fight it from the village level.

Lt Col Charles Arop, a leading Ugandan LRA rebels , has decided to surrender himself to the Ugandan army.

Uganda is considering an anti-counterfeit bill which analysts say will impair the country's ability to import and export cheap but effective generic medicines.

A proposed Ugandan law on HIV/AIDS promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic and would violate human rights, a group of more than 50 Ugandan and international organizations and individuals said in a report released today.

THE Uganda National Roads Authority has threatened to cancel Zzimwe Construction Company's sh1.9b contract for the rehabilitation of the Arua-Koboko-Oraba road over poor performance.

Coffee exports from Uganda, Africa's biggest producer of the robusta variety, rose 11 percent in October, the first month of the 2009-10 season, as farmers and dealers released supplies following an improvement in prices, the state-run Uganda Coffee Development Authority said.

PADER/NAIROBI, 2 November 2009 - Most Ugandans displaced by two decades of conflict in the north have returned to their villages but a significant number are still stuck in camps and should be helped to leave, observers say.

The MDC employee, Pascal Gwezere, who was abducted by armed men from his home in Harare last Tuesday, has made an appearance.

HIRING a BMW 5 series car for eight days in the UK under the AVIS Prestige programme costs 700 euro.

It is a public-private partnership intended to reduce Uganda's dependence on imported vegetable oil while creating sustainable jobs and income for several thousand people.

Some 75 staff of Microcare Health have lost their jobs after the International Medical Group , the parent company of International Hospital Kampala , bought out the struggling health insurance provider.

Kampala Efforts behind a proposed law against homosexuality run counter to the Uganda Policea s interest in the offence, official records show.

Labor failing its own standards says Productivity Commission - The Rudd government has failed its own test for assessing major infrastructure projects, according to a new Productivity Commission analysis.

Well isn't this novel: American officials are denouncing Uganda's move to possibly make homosexuality a crime that's punishable by death .

This decision, according to a letter by acting IGG Raphael Baku, resulted from false declaration of wealth by Gasasira--a violation of the Leadership Code Act which requires specified public officers to declare their incomes, assets and liabilities from time to time.