Days before high stake presidential election in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni has been accused of systematic violation of human rights. Singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine has filed a report mentioning graphic details of some of the incidents.

International Criminal Court to investigate political climate in Uganda

Uganda's popstar presidential candidate Bobi Wine has been arrested. 38-year-old Bobi Wine is seeking to end the 34-year long rule of President Yoweri K Museveni. It's a David vs Goliath story. Palki Sharma has a report.

Gravitas: Uganda's Presidential candidate Bobi Wine arrested

Uganda's popstar-turned-politician Bobi Wine, who is running for the presidency and challenging the 34-year-old rule of President Yoweri Museveni, has been arrested.

As Uganda's Bobi Wine is arrested, here's why it's story of David vs Goliath

Uganda opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, and his campaign team were arrested on Wednesday and he said on Twitter that authorities returned him to his Kampala home in a military helicopter.

Uganda opposition candidate Bobi Wine arrested, police fire tear gas at protesters

Ugandan presidential candidate Bobi Wine alleged that military truck ran over his bodyguard which led to his killing. "I regret to announce the murder of my security team member Francis Senteza Kalibala aka Frank.

Ugandan presidential candidate Wine says military-police vehicle killed bodyguard

Seven-year-old Uganda boy's aviation knowledge leaves several awestruck

The family of a Ugandan activist, who was killed in an accident over the summer at one of America's top national parks, has filed a $270 million wrongful death claim.

Family of Ugandan activist killed in US files $270 mn claim

India has gifted 36 vehicles, including 10 troop carriers to Ugandan Defence Forces--the Uganda People's defence force (UPDF). Other vehicles in the gift include 10 buses, 10 troop carriers, two ambulances and 14 motocycles.

India gifts troop carriers to Ugandan defence forces

4,000 drivers had camped on the highway over delayed testing by the Uganda authorities.

Trucks carrying food stuck at Ugandan border

Music has no boundaries and there are ample examples of this that we can see in today's time. Ugandan pop star Bobi Wine recently wrote a new track on coronavirus pandemic and this is something that you have to hear.

Watch: Ugandan pop star Bobi Wine's new viral song on coronavirus pandemic

The world is not just battling the coronavirus, the H1N1 or the bird flu but also a growing menace of locusts. Locusts are now threatening the food security of around 25 million people.

The locust crisis: How are nations tackling the growing menace? 

Fighting locusts is the biggest problem emerging in the horn of Africa. The swelling numbers of locusts have threatened a food emergency in some of the African countries.

Uganda deploys army, Pakistan imports insecticides from India as countries brace for locust attacks

Pakistan is likely to import insecticides from India to brace itself for any locust attacks this summer, bypassing a ban on trade between the neighbouring nations.

Pakistan to consider importing insecticides from India to fight locusts

South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel chief Riek Machar on Thursday were given another 100 days to form a power-sharing government after failing to resolve differences, a fresh delay that prompted a sharp US warning that the fledgling nation needed new leaders.

South Sudan rival leaders given 100 days to form unity government

U.N. peacekeepers should progressively withdraw from DR Congo by the end of 2022 at the earliest, a strategic review said Wednesday, in the first tentative timeline to exit a country grappling with militia violence and Ebola.

U.N. mulls slow DR Congo drawdown despite ongoing bloodshed

The presidents of Rwanda and Uganda on Wednesday signed an agreement in Angola to end months of tensions after the two leaders exchanged accusations of spying, political assassinations and meddling.

Uganda, Rwanda leaders sign pact in bid to end standoff

Nineteen people died when a fuel truck barrelled into other vehicles in a busy town in western Uganda and exploded, police said Monday. The blast occurred Sunday evening in the Kyambura trading centre, a mountainous area near the Queen Elizabeth National Park.

At least 19 killed in Uganda fuel truck blast: Police

A Congolese woman who may have spread the deadly Ebola virus in Uganda did not go to Rwanda or the Congolese city of Goma while contagious, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

Investigators conclude Ebola victim did not enter Rwanda: World Health Organisation

The World Health Organisation on Wednesday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo to be a "public health emergency of international concern", saying the recent risk of its spread in the city of Goma and into Uganda had increased the threat.

WHO declares Ebola outbreak is international health emergency, but not global threat

The World Health Organization reported a new incidence of Ebola in Uganda on Wednesday, fuelling concerns that the virus may be spreading beyond Democratic Republic of Congo, as an expert panel weighs whether to sound the alarm internationally.

World Health Organisation reports new Ebola incident in Uganda amid fears of virus spreading

The first Ebola patient in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's largest city, Goma, has died, the government said on Tuesday. The spread of the virus to Goma, a city of roughly 1 million people on the border with Rwanda, has raised fears the outbreak, which is already the second deadliest Ebola epidemic ever, could spread more widely.

First Ebola patient in eastern Congo's main city dies

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Three cases of Ebola have emerged in Uganda, a neighbouring country to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), officials said on Wednesday (June 12).

New Ebola cases in Uganda raise fears of further spread

The outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which has infected more than 2,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has spread to Uganda, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Deadly Ebola virus spreads to Uganda from Democratic Republic Congo

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