Uganda

Tragedy as Olympian Cheptegei dies, days after boyfriend set her on fire

Four days after her boyfriend set her on fire, Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei passed away on Thursday in Kenya, according to medics and...

Ugandan President to protesters: Don’t try it, you are playing with fire

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has a word for protesters planning to march against corruption on Tuesday, cautioning them that their actions are akin...

Minister shot dead

The Ugandan Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Charles Okello Engola, was on Tuesday fatally shot. Engola was killed...

Ugandan Government

China to take over Uganda’s only International airport over $207m loan

  The Ugandan Government has signed an agreement with Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) to borrow $207 million at two per cent...

Father murders son for refusing to forsake his faith in Jesus

  A 20-year-old man in Uganda who had converted from Islam to Christianity was tied up and murdered by his own father after...

Mosque leader plotted rape of pastor’s relatives after wife converts to Christianity

The leader of a mosque in western Uganda allegedly sent men to rape three female relatives of a church pastor last month as...

Uganda’s Bobi Wine, presidential candidate and opposition leader, arrested

  Reports from Uganda say security forces have arrested the country’s main opposition leader and January 2021 presidential election candidate, Robert Ssentamu a.k.a...

WHO declares Ebola outbreak international emergency as dead patient suspected of going to Uganda, Rwanda

The World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday declared that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which surfaced in August...