The Latest Breaking News from Uganda

A nonprofit group in rural Uganda says domestic violence is so widespread that it's hard to find a woman who isn't affected

A Ugandan magistrate's court has charged at least 42 protesters for offences allegedly committed during a banned anti-corruption demonstration on Tuesday, and remanded them in custody.

The desperate search for survivors of a landslide in southern Ethiopia continued on Tuesday. At least 229 people have been killed, swept away in its path on Monday. Also, in the wake of over six weeks of anti-government protests in Kenya, scores of people are arrested in neighbouring Uganda as…

Police in Kampala stop and detain anti-corruption demonstrators after earlier round-up of opposition MPs

Uganda’s president is known to govern with an iron fist and is clamping down on unrest in his country

Ugandan police detained several demonstrators in the capital Kampala on Tuesday, according to an AFP journalist, as scattered anti-corruption rallies began despite being banned by authorities.

President Museveni warns against anti-corruption protests in Uganda. Youth plan peaceful march despite government opposition.

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Monday that security forces had besieged his party headquarters, on the eve of an anti-corruption march which has been banned by the authorities.

In response to the deepening crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations Security Council established a panel of independent experts in 2023 to examine the situation and provide it with options to address the conflict. In June 2024, the UN released the panel’s final report.

Pair looking for love braved crocodile and hippo infested waters to swim channel

Production has yet to begin, but TotalEnergies' controversial East African oil project is already taking a dire environmental toll in Uganda's largest national parks, a leading conservationist group said Friday.