In 2001, the government undertook a disarmament exercise to rid the Karamoja sub-region of illegal arms and ammunition. The disarmament, carried out by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces ...

Gen Muhoozi’s posts come barely a day after UPDF soldiers raided a police station in Kampala and beat up officers ...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are scaling up the response to an anthrax outbreak in North ...

An anthrax outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has left one person and dozens of animals dead, health officials said.To date, one confirmed and 16 suspected human cases have been reported ...

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...

Anthrax is a bacterial infection that primarily affects animals, but can infect humans through contact with contaminated ...

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development is set to avail 10,000 land titles to ...

As we continue headlong into the regurgitating inanity that is Uganda's rollercoaster elections, the gross contradictions that embody our governance and politics continue unencumbered.Dear reader, let ...

Father John Kyebasuuta marvels at what has changed — and what remains the same — every time he makes his annual trip to the ...

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

Minigrids (small, local power systems that work independently from the main electricity grid) are becoming an important ...

Little did Father Ekisa realize when Pope Francis was elected to succeed Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, he was about to receive ...