20100921
Nation

Nairobi — A lawyer has petitioned the United States government over investigations into the July twin bombings in Uganda.

20100913
reuters

The US government has boosted its assistance to Uganda's AIDS programme with an emergency supply of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs worth more than US$5.5 million - enough to put an estimated 72,000 HIV-infected people on the treatment over the next two years.

20100912
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party backed President Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, as its candidate on Sunday for next year's presidential election.

20100830
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Ugandan opposition coalition aiming to unseat President Yoweri Museveni suffered a setback on Monday when one of the five parties withdrew in a disagreement over a demand to replace the Electoral Commission.

20100829
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will contest next year's presidential poll, trying to extend a presidency that started in 1986, a statement from his office said on Sunday.

20100817
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Five of Uganda's opposition parties picked four candidates on Tuesday to vie for a single ticket in next year's presidential election, in a process aimed at showing unity.

20100816
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Ugandan member of parliament and a human rights campaigner on Monday accused government troops of torturing and killing civilians as part of a disarmament exercise in a remote and lawless region.

20100814
xinhuanet

MBALE -- Five people were killed and dozens injured in a mudslide on Friday night in eastern Uganda, local official said here on Saturday.

20100813
africanews

About 54 Uganda nationals are behind bars in China with 20 on death row, stated Uganda ambassador to China Charles Madibo Wagidoso on tour in China. "It is unfortunate but we have more than 50 Ugandans detained in various prisons in China and counting because just last week another one was arrested."

20100813
africanews

The suspected brainpower of the July 11 twin bomb attacks on Kampala, Uganda said on Thursday he was motivated by "rage against the Americans." Issa Ahmed Ruyim claimed his membership of Somali Islamist rebels group of Al-Shabaab which has taken responsibility for the blasts killing 76 people.

20100808
Monitor

Kampala — The opposition yesterday announced plans to stage what they called a nation-wide protracted peoples' protests against the Electoral Commission despite an existing police order against holding demonstrations.

20100802
africanews

A mobile phone found alongside an unexploded suicide vest led police in Uganda to the three Kenyans charged with 76 counts of murder over last month's bombings in Kampala, the country's deputy director of Interpol, Elly Womanya has said.

20100801
RFI

The 1995 Constitution recognises 65 indigenous communities in Uganda as at February 1, 1926. This implies that Uganda as we know it today has been built using tribes (nationalities) as the building blocks. It is in this context that we should study the recently reported Gulu University authority's ban on tribal associations, 48 in number, at the campus.

20100731
Nation

Nairobi — A cell phone suspected to have been left behind by the people who masterminded the Kampala blasts led detectives to the three Kenyans arraigned in court on Friday.

20100731
RFI

Three Kenyans have been charged with the bomb attacks that killed 79 people watching the football World Cup final on television in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

20100730
allafrica

Kampala — Toxic algae has been found on Lake Victoria, a senior government official said yesterday.

20100725
Monitor

President Museveni on Friday night met intelligence chiefs over the July 11 attacks on civilians and pressed them to individually explain why they had failed to detect and prevent the attack.

20100723
africanews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will visit Uganda on Sunday, two weeks after a suicide bombing attack killed 73 people, including one American, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.

20100723
africanews

Diarrhoea is the lead cause of under-five deaths in Africa and has been overlooked at the African Union summit in Uganda, according to Action Aid.

20100719
africanews

Uganda Police released on Sunday images of two men suspected to be behind the twin attacks on Uganda killing at least 75 people. "Our intelligence so far confirms that last Sunday's bomb attacks were suicide attacks," Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, Uganda's national police chief, told reporters.