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The attack was carried out by the IS-linked Allied Democratic Forces on Friday night

Ugandan troops are ‘pursuing the perpetrators to rescue the abducted students’ the country’s military says

Militants linked to Islamic State have killed 25 people in a terrorist attack on a school in western Uganda near the Congo border

US President Biden had previously said said cuts and sanctions were possible in response to the law.

‘Growing up, I had never imagined someone like me could run for political office, let alone get elected to Congress,’ Jones tells Gustaf Kilander

In Kenya, some industrial fishing techniques are banned in a bid to counteract damage suffered by coastal communities that have seen their fish stocks plummet. Also, as Africa continues to wrangle with the dilemma of how to keep economic growth on track whilst tackling the climate emergency, we hear from…

Women's Super League side have just returned from spreading the rugby league gospel in East African country and are now bidding for glory on the home front

In this edition: Dozens are killed in the capsizing of a boat in northern Nigeria. Also, international frustration mounts as Khartoum's warring sides fail to cooperate as clashes continue. Finally, Uganda bans charcoal production in the north of the country as it struggles to protect its forests.

The burning of charcoal, an age-old practice in many African societies, is now restricted business across northern Uganda amid a wave of resentment by locals who have warned of the threat of climate change stemming from the uncontrolled felling of trees by outsiders