Control measures including lockdowns have halted the spread of the virus after less than four months

The law would be expanded to include anyone "involved in promotion and recruitment" - including saying gay people are born that way...

A five-year-old boy and his grandmother have died after three cases of Ebola were confirmed in Uganda in a "truly frightening" phase of the spread of the virus.

Vachellia (Acacia) tortilis The Umbrella Thorn is one of the most characteristic large trees of our dry savanna regions, and occurs from South Africa through eastern Africa into northern Africa and…

Opposition MP flew out of Uganda for medical treatment for alleged torture amid fresh protests in Kampala.

The Ugandan government has implemented a law forcing mobile users to pay taxes to use mobile money and social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Skype.

Wildlife authorities found 11 lions dead from suspected poisoning in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, in the southwest of of the country, on April 10. The dead lions, eight of them cubs and the other three adult lionesses, were part of a pride that also included three males. The pride had been filmed along with other lions in the park for a television show focusing on conservation and featuring their habit of climbing and hanging out in the spreading branches of candelabra trees.

A former child soldier accused of being a senior commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army has pleaded not guilty to war crimes in the first trial of its kind at the International Criminal Court. Dominic Ongwen has been charged with 70 counts including murder, rape, the use of child soldiers and sexual enslavement, relating to the group’s decades-long insurgency in northern Uganda.

A legal tug-of-war between Ugandan authorities and a for-profit international chain of schools has led to the education provider being ordered to shut down in a matter of weeks, leaving the lives of thousands of pupils in limbo. Uganda's High Court has described the Bridge International Academies (BIA) -- which is funded by the likes of Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- as unsanitary and unqualified, and has ordered it to close its doors in December because it ignored Uganda's national standards and put the "life and safety" of its 12,000 young students on the line.

Former residents of Yei report killings, torture, sexual abuses by government forces and opposition

Eight, a charitable organization based in Belgium, is preparing to run a basic income pilot in Uganda (as previously announced in Basic Income News). The two-year pilot is set to launch in January 2017, and will form the basis for a documentary. 27Documentary filmmaker Steven Janssens and sociologist Maarten Goethals founded the charity Eight in 2015, with the vision of reducing global inequality and allowing all people the opportunity to flourish. Eight euros per week is the amount needed to provide a basic income for one adult and two children in impoverished areas, such as parts of Uganda.

The surprising story of how Gulf Coast crustaceans and South Asian spices birthed a tasty new cuisine—and an economic success—along a lake in the heart of Africa. By Trina Moyles. (Apr. 28, 2016)

Social media has gone into speculation overdrive after Yoweri Museveni was photographed talking to a mystery caller from a foldout chair

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country's raid on Uganda's Entebbe airport 40 years ago, in which his brother was killed, "changed the course" of his life. Speaking shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Netanyahu praised Israel's commando raid on the airport which freed...

Five years after her rights were allegedly violated by a trusted custodian of her health, Harriet, an HIV-positive Ugandan who requested her real name not be used, still cannot bring herself to go anywhere near the hospital where the abuse took place. She tries not to think about the betrayal, and since finding out the shocking truth, has not come face-to-face with the doctor responsible for it. But the doctor’s image will be forever ingrained in Harriet’s memory.

Ugandan schoolboy Tumusiime Henry was 15 when he was accused of murder the first time. While he waited almost two years for the trial to begin he was accused of a second murder. But then he met an American lawyer who slowly realised it was up to him to come to the rescue of an innocent teenager. Henry was at school when the men came for him. They were not wearing uniforms, so he did not realise at first that it was the police...

In exchange for putting Ugandan troops at America’s disposal, Uganda has received some $15 billion in foreign aid from the West since 1990 and a virtual free pass from the US when it comes to human rights violations. Its presidential election on February 18 may be decided outside the voting both. By Helen Epstein.

Sovereignty and Sexuality in Urban Uganda. By Anneeth Kaur Hundle.