The Latest Breaking News from Uganda

Uganda party says leader Bobi Wine detained; police say escorted him home

The opposition leader is longtime President Yoweri Museveni’s strongest political challenger.

Al Jazeera · Oct 5, 2023

Environmental groups sue TotalEnergies over 'devastating' East Africa oil pipeline

Four environmental groups have filed a law suit against the French group TotalEnergies and its EACOP oil project in Tanzania and Uganda. They maintain that it threatens the region's fragile ecosystem and the people who live there.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 2, 2023

Uganda accuses ICC official of funding Lord's Resistance Army

Uganda is investigating allegations that a former senior advisor to the International Criminal Court was involved in funding the notorious Lord's Resistance Army.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 1, 2023

In Uganda, scramble for land intensifies in fields surrounding Kampala

Urban expansion and the commodification of land are driving disputes in areas near the Ugandan capital.

Al Jazeera · Sep 27, 2023

How NPR covered the missionary who ran a center for malnourished kids where 105 died

In 2019, NPR covered the story of Renee Bach, who said she was called by God to serve the children of Uganda. Now HBO is presenting her story in the documentary series 'Savior Complex.'

WEKU · Sep 26, 2023

Somaliland rejects talk of unification with Somalia after Museveni comment

Somaliland says it has no plans to discuss unity with Somalia despite Uganda’s talk of acting as ‘unification mediator’.

Al Jazeera · Sep 25, 2023

‘Latest wave of colonialism’: how dangerous is the white savior complex?

New docuseries delves into the case of Renee Bach, the white missionary who tasked herself with managing a clinic in Uganda with no medical training

The Guardian - US · Sep 25, 2023

Uganda's president says airstrikes killed 'a lot' of rebels with ties to Islamic State in Congo

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni says recent airstrikes against rebels with ties to the Islamic State group in eastern Congo have killed “a lot” of the militants, possibly including a notorious bomb maker

The Independent UK · Sep 23, 2023

Wild animals leave DNA on plants, making them easier to track – here’s what scientists found in a Ugandan rainforest

The world is losing animals at an alarming rate due to habitat degradation, climate change and illegal human activities in the wildlife protected areas. In fact, it is estimated that, by 2100, more than half of Africa’s bird and mammal species could be lost.

The Conversation · Sep 18, 2023

Yoweri Museveni: ageing Uganda president rides on the memory of his past heroics

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – Africa’s fourth-longest-serving head of state in 2023 – has cemented his place in history. He brought an end to two tyrannies: in 1979 his militia helped to oust Idi Amin’s famously bloody regime; and in the 1980s his army won a guerrilla campaign against the…

The Conversation · Sep 17, 2023