The Latest Breaking News from Uganda

The WHO's Africa Director Matshidiso Moeti said it is the first time in more than a decade that Uganda is recording the Ebola Sudan strain and that they are working closely to investigate the source of the outbreak

The country’s health ministry announced the first death - of a man in his 20s - from the virus since 2019 had been recorded.

A young man in Uganda’s Mubende district showed symptoms and later died; there are currently eight suspect cases.

Ugandan health authorities say a man who died this week has tested positive for the virus that causes Ebola

An outbreak of Ebola has been declared in Uganda after health authorities confirmed a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain, the health ministry and World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

Sadat Anaku signed for Dundee United from Ugandan outfit Kampala Capital City in August after a successful trial

Moses Wamugango peered into the plastic vats where maggots wriggled in decomposing filth, the enviable project of a neighbor who spoke of the fertilizer problem he had been able to solve

The new Unicef goodwill ambassador would like to see reparations from nations most responsible for climate crisis

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate recently traveled to the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa to hear from children suffering from starvation. The next day she learned that one of the boys she met had died. It is for such children, whose lives have been shattered by the global climate crisis, that…

The EU raises serious questions about the actions of French energy giant TotalEnergies in Uganda, with MEPs saying the group's oil pipeline project has led to evictions and arrests. Also in this edition: the United Nations publishes a report shedding light on increased human rights violations in Burkina Faso. Finally,…

U.N. children's agency UNICEF on Thursday named Vanessa Nakate, a 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist, goodwill ambassador.