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Rethinking polygamy – new research upends conventional thinking about the advantages of monogamous marriage

In July 2025, Uganda’s courts swiftly dismissed a petition challenging the legality of polygamy, citing the protection of religious and cultural freedom. For most social scientists and policymakers who have long declared polygamy a “harmful cultural practice,” the decision was a frustrating but predictable setback in efforts to build healthier…

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Zidane's son describes pride of playing for Algeria in quest for 2026 World Cup

Luca Zidane, the son of France football legend Zinedine Zidane, spoke of his pride after he was selected for the Algeria squad for 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Somalia and Uganda.

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Nigeria vs Uganda LIVE: Cricket score and updates from ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier

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Kenyan activists abducted after joining opposition rally in Uganda

Pair had crossed border to support presidential campaign of reggae singer Bobi Wine

The Guardian - UK

Uganda vs Malawi LIVE: Cricket score and updates from ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier

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Uganda vs Botswana LIVE: Cricket score and updates from ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier

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Mountain gorillas are back from the brink. But what happens if they run out of room?

Humans have helped save the great apes from extinction, but are now the biggest threat to their survival as they compete for land in east Africa’s Virunga mountains

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Uganda vs Tanzania LIVE: Cricket score and updates from ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier

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Uganda vs Zimbabwe LIVE: Cricket score and updates from ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier

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Uganda electoral commission clears Museveni and Bobi Wine to run for president

Uganda’s Electoral Commission has cleared octogenarian President Yoweri Museveni to seek re-election in polls scheduled for early next year, potentially extending his rule in the East African nation to nearly half a century. His rival, Bobi Wine, was also cleared on Wednesday afternoon.

Radio France Internationale

What to know about endangered gorillas and tourist tours tracking them

World Gorilla Day is observed on September 24

The Independent UK

In Uganda, a vibrant tourist economy boosts the conservation of endangered mountain gorillas

In Uganda, the economic benefits of tourism have turned gorilla poachers into conservationists, married women into porters and rangers into spokespeople for the great apes

The Independent UK

Ugandan President Museveni, in power since 1986, to seek another term

Yoweri Museveni urges supporters to back his vision for the future as he seeks to run for a record seventh term.

Al Jazeera

'It is our time to show them what we can do' - World Championships make history in Rwanda but UCI can still do far more to develop African cycling

Athletes share experiences, reflect on successes and barriers amid hopes of a turning point for cycling in Africa

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Cycling Weekly

UCI Road World Championships 2025 under-23 time trial start times

The full order and start times for the 49 women and 61 men competing

The Conversation

Uganda has signed a deal with the US to take asylum seekers – what’s behind it and what’s at stake

A new deal to deport asylum seekers from the US to Uganda was announced in August 2025. The full agreement, already signed by the ambassadors of the two countries at the end of July, set out the terms of the arrangements. Franzisca Zanker and Ronald Kalyango Sebba, who have studied…

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The dinner pledge that secured Sydney the 2000 Olympics

John Coates' campaign for Sydney to host the 2000 Olympics culminated in a last-ditch financial offer to two African sporting bigwigs in a Monte Carlo hotel.

The Guardian - UK

Rhoda Kalema obituary

Other lives: Politician and women’s rights activist in Uganda who served as deputy minister of culture and community development

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‘Binary thinking’: Why Zohran Mamdani’s African identity doesn’t fit US racial boxes

The New York mayoral candidate, who was born in Uganda, has faced backlash in the US over his complex identity – but here in Kampala, Ugandans of Indian descent are unquestioningly considered African

The Guardian - UK

Joseph Kony case in The Hague begins with accounts of alleged atrocities

ICC hearing takes place in absence of Ugandan rebel leader accused of murder, rape, torture and sexual slavery

International Business Times

Kony Crimes Still Felt In Uganda, 20 Years On, ICC Hears

The consequences of the brutal crimes allegedly committed by Uganda rebel chief Joseph Kony are still reverberating in the country more than 20 years later, an International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Al Jazeera

ICC opens war crimes hearing against Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony

Kony faces charges for the Lord’s Resistance Army campaign of torture and abuse in Uganda in the early 2000s.

The Independent UK

ICC opening its war crimes case against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony

International Criminal Court prosecutors will present evidence to back up charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at the global court’s first in absentia hearing

The Guardian - UK

‘I broke completely’: how jobseekers from Africa are being tricked into slavery in Asia’s cyberscam compounds

A growing number of Kenyans, Ugandans and Ethiopians are being trafficked to Myanmar, where missing online scam targets leads to beatings and torture

International Business Times

ICC Hears Charges Against Ugandan Warlord Kony

The International Criminal Court opens war crimes hearings Tuesday against Joseph Kony, a brutal Ugandan rebel chief whose Lord's Resistance Army was responsible for murdering and kidnapping tens of thousands.

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