The Latest Breaking News from Uganda

Tragic fuel truck explosion in Uganda claims 11 lives, including children, highlighting the risks of approaching distressed fuel trucks.

Police in Uganda say least 11 people including children were killed when a fuel truck exploded next to a highway on Tuesday

A fuel truck ran out of control and exploded into flames near the Ugandan capital on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, a local official told AFP. The impoverished East African country has witnessed several similar disasters in recent years as people rushed to steal fuel from tankers involved in…

Migration is dominating Thursday's European Union summit in Brussels, with Poland calling for a united EU stance against Russia and Belarus, accusing them of using migrants as a weapon. Poland is also pushing for stricter laws on deporting irregular migrants, while the Netherlands mulls a controversial plan to send asylum-seekers…

Critics say plan mooted by coalition government led by Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom party is ‘totally unfeasible’

At least four professional female runners have been murdered by their intimate male partners since 2021.

He has had a hand in some of the 21st-century’s most daring structures – including Zaha Hadid’s Phaeno science centre. We meet the Uganda-born engineer, who has just won architecture’s prestigious Soane medal

The global rate of teen pregnancies has been decreasing in recent decades. According to the World Health Organization, worldwide adolescent birth rates have decreased from 64.5 births per 1,000 women aged 15–19 years in 2000 to 41.3 births per 1,000 women in 2023.

Abortion is generally illegal in Uganda, and fear of imprisonment leads many to resort to extreme and unsafe practices.

The UN's refugee chief questioned Sunday what future awaited the Sudanese people as the country's civil war rages, pushing its people ever further afield including to Uganda and Europe's maritime borders.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's son, who had earlier said he would run in the 2026 presidential election, announced on Saturday he would not stand and would back his father instead.