The Latest Breaking News from Uganda

In tonight's edition: Despite pressure from the EU and environmental campaigners, Uganda cracks on with its plans to cash in on commercial crude. Also, on the International Day of Education, we hear from a leading education chief who has recently returned from a tour of Ethiopian classrooms about what the…

Oil drilling has begun in a Chinese-operated field in Uganda and the East African country expects to start production by 2025

At least five people were killed and 15 wounded in a suspected Islamist militant bomb attack during a Sunday service at a Protestant church in the eastern Congolese city of Kasindi, on the border with Uganda, the military said.

Uganda has terminated its contract with a Chinese firm China Harbour and Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) to build a railway to the Kenyan border and is now considering a deal with a Turkish company, a senior official told Reuters on Friday.

A western-led approach has failed to remedy the problem. Maybe, post-pandemic, a new focus on the poor is needed, says activist Anthony Kalulu

Uganda declared an official end to its Ebola outbreak, easing fears that the deadly virus would spread beyond the country’s borders.

Uganda’s latest outbreak of the Ebola virus is over

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.