A few years ago, commercially exploitable reserves of oil were found in the Albertine Basin in western Uganda. Along with a number of other oil companies, British 'wildcats' Heritage Oil and Tullow Oil announced details of a major find - possibly the ...
A new index by Save the Children has ranked Uganda amongst the worst countries for a child to fall sick. Uganda is ranked 145 out of the 161 countries surveyed, only 15 places higher than the worst countries Chad and Somalia.
Residents of Buliisa and Kibaale districts are grappling with food scarcity, restricted movement and lack of shelter after floods hit Bunyoro sub-region, rendering roads impassable and displacing several families whose houses were submerged.
KAMPALA - Uganda on Wednesday convicted two men who pleaded guilty for their role in July 2010 bomb attacks that killed at least 76 people, the region's worst attacks in more than a decade.
They also vandalized two pickup trucks belonging to Uganda Breweries. Police fired live ammunition in the air to save other musicians that had agreed to perform.
Speaking at a workshop organised by the Uganda Debt Network (UDN) to disseminate a 'dossier' on corruption on Tuesday, Katutsi said such state of affairs has helped Uganda secure itself a place of honour as the “grand seat of corruption”.
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has cut taxes on fuel imported through Tanzania by 15 percent to bolster shipments via a supply route the country wants developed to end chronic shortages, a senior government official said on Thursday.
The NAADS programme has to benefit the intended beneficiaries this time round, the First Lady and Minister for Karamoja Affairs, Janet Museveni, has said.
Sierra Leone and Liberia have a similar history besides sharing a common border. Both were settled by former slaves, from Britain and the United States respectively; and to this can be partly attributed the recent wars in the two states since the ...
By Karoli Ssemogerere (email the author) One of Uganda's doyen's in the world of the arts, Dr Harriet Masembe, spent several years documenting short stories in Buganda.
The President of the Uganda Local Governments Association, Peter Adok W'oceng, said it was difficult to imagine that Bukenya "who was democratically elected and performed very well as VP was to resigning.
By ANDREW MWANGUHYA (email the author) Apart from the June 4, two nil Uganda Cranes victory over Guinea Bissau in the Africa Nations Cup qualifiers, there has barely been good news filtering through the football fraternity.
Mr Basajjabalaba is being investigated over the purchase of Uganda Broadcasting Corporation land in Bugolobi while Mr Ntaganda is alleged to have bought land on Mbuya from Ministry of Finance fraudulently.
The Uganda Coffee Development Authority today quoted indicative prices for exports of robusta, which accounts for 85 percent of the country's coffee exports.
According to James Isabirye, executive director of the National Council of Folklorists of Uganda and a lecturer of music at Kyambogo University, the trend is driven by commercialization.
The fate of Uganda Cranes defender Hassan Mawanda Wasswa hangs in the balance after he was caught red-handed by Turkish Airport Authority in possession of drugs.
