The Latest Breaking News from Uganda

Uganda on Wednesday declared the end of a nearly four-month Ebola outbreak that it briefly struggled to contain but was then able to swiftly bring under control despite the absence of a proven vaccine against the viral strain in question.

A court in Uganda on Tuesday quashed a section of a communications law that has been used to prosecute government critics, journalists and writers, including two who fled to exile in Germany, its judgment said.

At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year's firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda's capital, police said.

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Musa Hasahya, 67, who lives in Kenya with his nine wives, has now told them to on the pill as he struggles to cope with their enormous brood of 102 kids and 568 grandchildren

Nicholas Spencer, a former congressional staffer, and his wife Mackenzie, once a healthcare consultant, quit their jobs in DC in 2017 and moved to Uganda. Five years later, they are making international headlines for their arrest on child torture charges, Andrea Blanco reports

The Museveni administration has repeatedly been accused of muzzling dissenting voices in the country since 1986.

Nicholas Spencer, a former congressional staffer, and his wife Mackenzie, once a healthcare consultant, quit their jobs in DC in 2017 and moved to Uganda. Five years later, they are making international headlines for their arrest on child torture charges, Andrea Blanco reports

Kampala (AFP) - Uganda announced Thursday that it had received shipments of two more trial vaccines to test against a strain of Ebola responsible for dozens of deaths in the East African nation.