The Latest Breaking News from Kampala

Opposition leader’s wife says he was seized in Nairobi, is being held in Kampala and calls for his immediate release.

Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye was "kidnapped" in Kenya and is being held in a Kampala military jail, according to his wife, a top UN official.

A fuel truck ran out of control and exploded into flames near the Ugandan capital on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, a local official told AFP. The impoverished East African country has witnessed several similar disasters in recent years as people rushed to steal fuel from tankers involved in…

Abortion is generally illegal in Uganda, and fear of imprisonment leads many to resort to extreme and unsafe practices.

A packed Kampala audience holds its breath as four self-styled "singing fools" in choir uniforms bound onto the stage for their latest daring satire of Ugandan politics.

Bobi Wine was taken to hospital on Tuesday after he was hit in the leg with a tear-gas canister.

Uganda's main opposition leader Bobi Wine was shot in the leg and seriously injured by security agents in a northern suburb of the capital Kampala on Tuesday, his party said.

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine shot in leg during confrontation with police near Kampala, highlighting political tensions in the country.

The ambiguous and often tumultuous relations between Uganda and neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have made headlines in recent months. In a July 2024 report, the UN Group of Experts on the DRC stated that Ugandan army and intelligence officials were providing active support to the M23 rebel group.

For tens of thousands of men in Uganda’s capital, driving a motorcycle taxi is a way to make a living

With racism, xenophobia and food insecurity on the rise, Brogan Mwesigwa is recreating a traditional 'getting to know each other’ festival as his contribution to Kampala’s KLA Art show