November 30

• Uganda: False Start for Uganda At Youth World Championships

  The national boxing team's medal hopes at the AIBA youth world championships in Armenia were dashed when Emmanuel Nsubuga lost the bantamweight contest last evening, writes Moses... Read more »

• Uganda: We Need Proactive Approach to Ebola, Marburg

  Luweero district recently announced the containment of an Ebola outbreak there. Not long before this, there had been a Marburg outbreak in Kabale district which had in turn been... Read more »

November 28

• Uganda: Timber Smuggling in Congo Worries East Africa

  Uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is beginning to worry countries in the Great Lakes region. A new report, which prompted the... Read more »

November 26

• Uganda: Mosques Under Watch After Police Arrest ADF Suspect

  Mosques in Masaka district are under tight police and army surveillance, after a suspected rebel recruit named them as recruitment centres for the rebel Allied Democratic Forces... Read more »

• Uganda/Congo-Kinshasa: The Geezer - Ah, the Week That Was!

  We were at the kibaala as usual over the weekend and the banter was about the usual -wenches: Read more »

• Uganda: Then & Now - Museveni Is Mentally Ill, Says Binaisa

  In 1998, while still a bitter man living in exile, former President Godfery Binaisa claimed that President Museveni was not mentally fit to lead Uganda. Read more »

November 21

• Uganda: FDC Poll - Neck-and-Neck Between Mafabi, Muntu

  Televised debate sets tone for Thursday polls: Read more »

November 12

• Uganda: Wolokoso - Mbabazi Names 'Heir Apparent'

  As reports persist to the effect that Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi is considering throwing in the towel in 2016, Wolokoso has learnt that his political assistant has been anointed... Read more »

• Uganda: How Police Foiled Plot to Murder City Businessman

  As the entire nation was glued to celebrations to mark 50 years of Uganda's independence on October 9, four men were trailing a Kampala businessman with the aim of killing him and... Read more »

• Uganda: FDC Official Seeks Asylum in Europe

  An FDC party leader exiled in Nairobi says he is living in fear after the Kenyan government blocked his extradition to Uganda, where he allegedly faces charges of terrorism. Read more »

November 7

• Uganda: Many Could Miss Out On Oil Refinery Compensation

  More than half of the residents that live around the area where government intends to build an oil refinery might miss out on compensation, or walk away with peanuts, because they... Read more »

November 6

• Uganda: UN Needs Evidence to Accuse Uganda [editorial]

  Uganda has threatened to pull out of regional peace efforts, including armed missions in Somalia and the Central African Republic, following a report by a UN group of experts... Read more »

• Uganda: Withdrawal From Peacekeeping Mission Is a Hoax [opinion]

  When officials announced last week that Uganda would withdraw from the peace-keeping mission in Somalia, among other regional efforts, in protest at a UN report accusing Kampala of... Read more »

November 3

• Uganda: Uganda to Pull of Peacekeeping Missions in Somalia, CAR, DR Congo

  Uganda has decided to pull out of all its international peacekeeping missions in DR Congo, Somalia and Central African Republic (CAR). Read more »

October 19

• Uganda: Timber Traders Decry Police Harassment

  Timber traders in Mpondwe market along the Uganda-DRC border are unhappy with the police and army here. Read more »

October 12

• Uganda: A Professor As a Refugee [column]

  Alex Mundeke was a prominent assistant professor in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but death threats forced him into a foreign... Read more »

• Uganda: DRC Crisis - Museveni Urged to Act

  Regional leaders at the fourth Great Lakes regional summit at Speke Resort Munyonyo, which ended this week, have asked President Museveni to act on the crisis in the eastern DRC. Read more »

September 22

• Uganda: Norway Embassy Gives Shs 75 Million for Gorillas Trapped in DRC War

  The Norwegian embassy in Kampala has availed $30,000 (Shs 75m) as contribution towards the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga national Park. Read more »

September 1

• Africa: Ogwal Asks Continent Parliament to Intervene in DRC, Kenya Conflicts

  The leader of Uganda's delegation to the Pan African Parliament (PAP), Cecilia Atim Ogwal, has asked the continental body to pay particular interest to the Great Lakes Region to... Read more »

August 24

• Uganda: Museveni, M23 Rebels Held Secret Meeting

  The M23 rebels, whose scorched-earth policy has left a trail of despair, destruction and death in the North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo, last month travelled to... Read more »

August 11

• Uganda: Museveni Begged Angola Not to Enter DR Congo

  Just four days before the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region was held in Kampala, President Museveni rushed to Angola on a two-day "official visit". Read more »

August 10

• Uganda: Tales of Woe From a Congolese Refugee Camp [column]

  Kamwenge - When our van pulls up at her compound, Vumiria Kirikwendera's face lights up. She hopes the van has brought her missing children and husband. She smiles as we disembark,... Read more »

• East Africa: Great Lakes Ministers for Neutral Force in DRC [opinion]

  A neutral force should immediately be dispatched to the volatile Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to rein in Gen. Bosco Ntaganda's M23 bands accused of sowing mayhem in the... Read more »

July 13

• Uganda: MP Asks Museveni to 'Come Clean' On Congo

  President Museveni should explain the role Uganda is playing in the armed conflict between M23 rebels and DR Congo soldiers, lest he is perceived to have a hidden agenda, a... Read more »

• Uganda: Uganda Must Help to End DRC Conflict

  Uganda has convened an extraordinary meeting of the Great Lakes region countries as part of the effort to end the armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more »