Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Uganda

The Marburg virus: urgent need to contain this close cousin of Ebola

In July 2022 Ghana confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade and Usifo Omozokpea asked virologist Oyewale Tomori about its origin and how people can protect themselves against…

The Conversation

Five essential reads on Russia-Africa relations

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, will visit four African nations – Ethiopia, Egypt, Uganda and Congo-Brazzaville – from Sunday 24 July. The visit comes ahead of the second Russia-Africa summit, expected to be held in Addis Ababa in October-November.

The Conversation

Lavrov in Egypt Next Week as Part of African Tour

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will kick off a tour of Africa next week that includes Egypt, which he described as Moscow’s “number one” partner in the continent. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said his trip, from July 24 to 28, will include Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic…

Asharq Al-Awsat

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Kenya's women in politics still fighting to get their voices heard

As Kenya prepares to vote in a new president next month, we take a closer look at the role of women in the country’s politics. In Uganda, we bring you a report on efforts to respond to a major hunger crisis in the country’s northeast. And the Ivorian artist Frédéric…

France 24

Beads, felt and bark are turned into masterpieces at Smithsonian Folklife Festival

This summer, artisans from Kenya, Mongolia and Uganda shared the story of their centuries-old traditional crafts — including the art of "barkcloth," declared a UNESCO world heritage "masterpiece."

WEKU

More than 200 people die as drought ravages northeast Uganda

More than 200 people have died from hunger this month in northeastern Uganda, where a prolonged drought and rampant insecurity have left more than half a million facing starvation, a local official and a charity worker said.

Reuters

Why sexual and reproductive law for east African countries is being resisted

Six of the countries of the East African Community – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania – recently concluded public hearings on a new sexual and reproductive health bill. Proponents of the bill argue that it will improve access to sexual and reproductive health which, in turn, will…

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Empire of the drones: Terrence Howard takes us where no actor has gone before

The star of Empire, Crash and Iron Man has found a side hustle in developing new hydrogen technology for Uganda’s defence – just don’t ask him to explain it to you

The Guardian - UK

Cheptegei defends world title, Andersen bags third US gold

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Uganda's Stephen Cheptegei produced a devastating display of controlled distance running to retain his world 10,000m crown on Friday, while Brooke Andersen bagged a third gold for the US in the women's hammer throw.

AFP

Uganda's Cheptegei delivers masterclass to retain world 10,000m title

Eugene (United States) (AFP) - Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei delivered a masterclass of unpanicked front running to retain the men's world 10,000m title in Oregon, on Sunday.

AFP

Monster 16ft 75-year-old crocodile has eaten 80 people and even 'snatched children'

A monster crocodile in Uganda was supposedly responsible for a total of 80 deaths in a small village by Lake Victoria. 'Osama' was so powerful some villagers believed he was immortal

Daily Mirror

Analysis: How Uganda’s ‘eyes and ears’ prolong Museveni presidency

A nationwide network of district commissioners loyal to the president has been crucial to his time in power since 1986.

Al Jazeera

Oil drilling to go ahead in Ugandan park despite threat to nature

Uganda’s President Museveni has endorsed the project, warning he won’t ‘allow anybody to play around’ with ‘my oil’.

Al Jazeera

Papua New Guinea reach semi-finals despite dramatic loss

Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) (AFP) - Papua New Guinea reached the Twenty20 World Cup qualifying tournament semi-finals in Zimbabwe despite a dramatic last-ball Group B loss to Hong Kong on Thursday.

AFP

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

‘Sexual abuse is normalised’: Uganda struggles with #MeToo

Samantha Mwesigye’s case had hoped to be the catalyst for a change to the culture of toxic masculinity. But four years on, she is still waiting to be heard

Radio France Internationale

Morocco and Senegal move into knockout stages at women's Africa Cup of Nations

Morocco and Senegal advanced to the knockout stages from Group A at the women's Africa Cup with victories over Uganda and Burkina Faso respectively.

The Independent UK

Report: East Africa pipeline 'breaches banking principles'

Would-be financiers of a planned oil pipeline in Uganda and Tanzania will be in breach of benchmark guidelines on financing big infrastructure projects if they go ahead, according to a report shared with The Associated Press

France 24

Between Kenya and Uganda, an undecided border (3/4)

Located on Lake Victoria in East Africa, Migingo is the most densely populated island in the world. Covering an area smaller than a football pitch, the tiny island is home to several hundred people from Uganda and Kenya. Both countries have territorial claims on this piece of land located near…

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Eritrea women’s team footballers still in hiding after escaping in Uganda

Five members of Eritrea’s Under-20 women’s team who escaped after playing in a tournament in Uganda last year remain in hiding, the Guardian understands

Input

The spectacular implosion of Instagram’s No White Saviors

The group — known for canceling missionaries and aid workers for alleged misdeeds — is embroiled in some very ugly scandals of its own.

Al Jazeera

What is the latest conflict in the DR Congo about?

The Norwegian Refugee Council has declared the situation in DR Congo to be the world’s most neglected refugee crisis.

Reuters

Uganda's army says it discovers training facility for Islamist militia

Uganda's military said on Thursday it had discovered bomb making material at a training facility for an Islamic State-allied rebel group around 60 kilometres west of the capital Kampala, and that three people had been detained.

Reuters

Uganda's opposition figure denied bail for leading inflation protests

A Uganda veteran opposition figure and long time opponent of aging leader Yoweri Museveni was remanded to prison on Wednesday after he was charged with offences for leading protests against soaring consumer prices.

Radio France Internationale

Democratic Republic of Congo accuses Rwanda of border town capture

The Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Rwanda of an "invasion" after rebels it says receive support from Kigali overran a major trading post on the Ugandan border.

AFP

Hunger claims children in forgotten corner of Uganda

Karamoja (Uganda) (AFP) - In one of Uganda's poorest and most lawless regions, anxious mothers clutch bone-thin infants in a malnutrition ward, terrified their child could be next to succumb to starvation in Karamoja.

1 … 32 33 34 35

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.