Uganda MPs revive hardline anti-LGBTQ bill, calling homosexuality a ‘cancer’
In a country where gay sex is already punishable by life in prison, campaigners have condemned proposed new law as ‘demonisation’ MPs in Uganda have...
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Uganda condemned for ‘shameful’ decision to close UN human rights office
Campaigners accuse Museveni regime of evading international scrutiny after shock move to end agreement with OHCHR Rights activists and campaigners have condemned the Ugandan government’s...
‘A great day for the country’: Uganda declares an end to Ebola outbreak
Control measures including lockdowns have halted the spread of the virus after less than four months The Ugandan government has declared an end to its...
Nine killed in New Year’s Eve crush in Ugandan capital
Survivor says pushing began after fireworks outside Freedom City shopping mall in Kampala At least nine people, some of them children, died in a crush...
Renewed fighting in DRC raises fears of chaotic proxy conflict
Conflict has displaced at least 400,000 people since March in a growing humanitarian crisis In the camps on the flanks of the Nyiragongo volcano in...
Health workers among dead in Ugandan Ebola outbreak
MSF calls situation ‘very serious’ as east African country grapples with outbreak of Sudan strain of virus, for which no vaccine exists It seems like...
Ugandan president fires son from military role after ‘capture Nairobi’ tweet
Latest in series of provocative tweets leads to removal of Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba as infantry commander The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, has fired his...
Uganda’s suspension of LGBT charity a ‘clear witch hunt’, say campaigners
Country’s government says Sexual Minorities Uganda ‘operating illegally’ in the east African nation The Ugandan government has suspended the country’s leading gay rights organisation, accusing...
At least 24 people dead as flash flooding hits eastern Uganda
More than 5,600 displaced and 400,000 left without clean water after heavy rain causes two rivers to burst banks At least 24 people have died...
Lavrov’s African tour another front in struggle between west and Moscow
Analysis: Foreign minister seeks to win friends and influence people in countries where closeness can be traced back to USSR Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign...
