The Latest Breaking News from Uganda

He has had a hand in some of the 21st-century’s most daring structures – including Zaha Hadid’s Phaeno science centre. We meet the Uganda-born engineer, who has just won architecture’s prestigious Soane medal

The global rate of teen pregnancies has been decreasing in recent decades. According to the World Health Organization, worldwide adolescent birth rates have decreased from 64.5 births per 1,000 women aged 15–19 years in 2000 to 41.3 births per 1,000 women in 2023.

In South Africa, the government considers how to absorb the impact of around 400 million euros worth of electricity bills still unpaid by some districts. Also, NGOs say that French energy giant TotalEnergies' controversial oil project in northern Uganda, is having devastating effects on biodiversity. And after decades at the…

A packed Kampala audience holds its breath as four self-styled "singing fools" in choir uniforms bound onto the stage for their latest daring satire of Ugandan politics.

Dozens of mourners in Uganda have paid respects to Rebecca Cheptegei, the Olympic athlete who died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire

Ugandans on Saturday paid tributes to Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after her partner set her on fire in Kenya, ahead of her funeral in her family village.

The body of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei — who died after being set on fire by her partner in Kenya — has been received by family and anti-femicide crusaders, ahead of her burial on Saturday

Tragic death of Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei in Kenya reignites conversation on gender-based violence, sparking calls for action.

An epidemic of mpox in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is spreading quickly, particularly among young children. At least 20,000 people are known to be infected in the country, and more than 600 people have died, more than two thirds of them children. Cases have begun to appear…