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The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Uganda's parliamentary speaker and several other officials over corruption and serious abuses of human rights. Parliament Speaker Anita Among was ...
RODNEY MUHUMUZA. KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Suspected rebels attacked a school in a remote area of Uganda near the Congo border, killing at least 41 people in a nighttime raid before fleeing across ...
General elections were held in Uganda on 14 January 2021 to elect the President and the Parliament. The Electoral Commission announced Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, the incumbent ruling since 1986, as the winner with 58.64% of the votes although the U.S. State Department qualified the electoral process as "fundamentally flawed" and Africa Elections Watch said they observed irregularities.
Pepe Julian Onziema (born November 30, 1980) is a Ugandan LGBT rights and human rights defender. [2] He began his human rights work in 2003. [3] [4] Onziema is the Director of Programs at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), an LGBTI advocacy organization. [5] [6] SMUG provides research, documentation, and evidence to advocate for policy change in ...
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan police have arrested another five people and discovered five more explosives around the capital Kampala in a bombing plot linked to an Islamist rebel group, the force said.
Kampala ( UK: / kæmˈpɑːlə /, [3] [4] US: / kɑːmˈ -/) [3] [5] is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,600 (2020) [6] and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Rubaga Division .
There are a number of newspapers in Uganda today. New Vision is Uganda's leading English daily newspaper. It is a state-owned newspaper and has the largest nationwide circulation. The Daily Monitor is an independent English-language newspaper and second in circulation to the New Vision. The two papers dominate the print section of media in Uganda.
Uganda's constitutional court is due on Wednesday to deliver a verdict on a petition seeking to annul the country's tough Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), a lawyer for the petitioners said on Tuesday.