Mogadishu, Somalia | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) contingent in Somalia will not be withdrawn ...

There is a severe shortage of food here because we have been stopped from farming. We are not able now to take our children to school and we lack access to healthcare,” said Mr Joe Olwock, ...

Ocen’s Kwania District counterpart, Geoffrey Alex Ogwal, urged every Ugandan, including those who subscribe to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, to bank their hope in Akena. Thank ...

Tobacco farming in Uganda has resulted in the loss of trees key to the diets of chimpanzees and baboons, increasing human-primate interactions -- and the risk for disease spillover.Less than half a ...

Omukama Abawe Omukisa”, literally, “May the Lord bless you”. These were the final words spoken by Pope Francis as he ...

The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) has reported a continued decline in new HIV infections, though the country still falls short ...

Uganda has officially declared the end of its latest Ebola outbreak, three months after the first cases emerged in the ...

According to Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU), even before oil starts, the Tilenga oil project has started having a ...

A former biology teacher-turned-environmentalist is on a crusade in Uganda to save the once-flourishing trees from which shea ...

Uganda’s Health Ministry announced the end of a monthslong Ebola outbreak. Just over a dozen cases of the disease were reported, which left at least four people dead. Host Marco Werman speaks with ...

Uganda also neighbours the Democratic Republic of Congo which has recorded over a dozen outbreaks, including one in 2018-2020 that killed nearly 2,300 people. The outbreak started in Kampala ...