20120120
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan police said they had released the country's main opposition leader and several of his allies late on Thursday after detaining the group to stop them leading an anti-government rally in the capital.

20120112
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Traders and shopkeepers in the Ugandan capital Kampala closed on Wednesday for a three-day strike to try to press commercial banks to stop raising interest rates, a demand dismissed by the bankers' association as impossible.

20111103
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States accused Uganda's government on Wednesday of intensifying human rights abuses, taking aim at an African ally that Washington recently pledged to help against rebels of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army.

20111018
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was briefly arrested on Tuesday as he took part in a "walk-to-work" protest against surging consumer prices and wasteful government spending on the outskirts of the capital Kampala, his party said.

20111016
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Residents and rights groups said U.S. troops being sent to Uganda would give a fresh impetus to the fight against Lord's Resistance Army rebels accused of murder and kidnapping children and capturing their leader.

20111014
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Ugandan court on Thursday charged three ministers with corruption offences but released them on bail, a day after they resigned their positions to pave way for their trial.

20111007
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Ugandan court has summoned three senior government officials to answer corruption charges in what analysts say is an increased attempt to stem endemic misuse of public funds and end a culture of impunity.

20110920
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan legislators want the speaker to call an emergency session of the house to discuss a government dispute with Britain's Heritage Oil over tax payments, an opposition MP said on Monday.

20110906
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan teachers went on strike for the second time this year on Monday after fruitless month-long talks with the government for a 100 percent pay rise, the latest in a string of protests in the east African country.

20110813
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has invited Eritrea's leader, President Isaias Afewerki, accused by the West of stoking Somalia's Islamist rebellion and destabilising the east African region, to a state visit next week, Uganda's State House said.

20110727
Allafrica
Addis Ababa — Ethiopia and Uganda have signed bilateral agreements to cooperate in regional security operations.

20110618
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda on Friday denied reports that it had used British aid meant to help alleviate poverty to buy a $48 million luxury jet for President Yoweri Museveni.

20110617
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's president should order an independent investigation into the killing of nine unarmed civilians by security forces during protests against inflation, more than 100 rights groups said in a letter to him on Thursday.

20110616
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - A former vice president of Uganda was on Thursday charged with corruption-related offences, a move government critics say is meant to eliminate him as a political threat to veteran leader President Yoweri Museveni.