Uganda opposition wins Kampala mayor vote
afrol News, 15 March - In the first-ever significant opposition election victory, Erias Lukwago was declared winner of the polls in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. But the powers of the mayor's office have been limited.
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Huge Uganda election funding questioned
afrol News, 21 February - Large spending by Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni to win the 2011 elections is said to have kept away an IMF team that was to assess the country's economic discipline.
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Uganda President re-elected
afrol News, 20 February - With 98 percent of the votes already counted, Uganda's Electoral Commission can already conclude on a large victory for President Yoweri Museveni. But will the opposition accept defeat?
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Rough election climate emerges in Uganda
afrol News, 7 February - This month's general elections in Uganda, widely expected to be won by President Yoweri Museveni, are held in a rough climate, with the opposition crying fraud and the army getting engaged.
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Ugandan gays mourn activist's killing
afrol News, 27 January - David Kato, a Ugandan activist fighting for sexual minorities' rights, was killed in his home by a mob today. Shocked Ugandan gay activists promise to keep on "the struggle for justice and equality."
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Uganda tabloid urges "hanging of homos"
afrol News, 15 October - A Ugandan tabloid has published photos of 100 allegedly homosexual men, including their addresses and workplaces, calling for their hanging. The weekly was sold freely around the country.
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US fundamentalists "fight proxy war" in Uganda, Rwanda
afrol News, 22 September - Fundamentalist "evangelical" Christian congregations in the US have plaid a strong role in radicalising Anglican and Protestant communities in Africa, in particular Uganda and Rwanda. New reports document their real motives as imperialistic.
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Al Shabaab's Uganda attack backfires
afrol News, 16 July - The Somali Islamist group Al Shabaab was hailed by Al Qaeda colleagues for its first major terrorist act abroad, in Uganda. But the grotesque "success" is backfiring as efforts to fight the group in Somalia increase.
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Nile water resource dispute splits region
afrol News, 14 May - Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda have signed a controversial deal to regulate and share the waters of River Nile, despite protests from downstream nations Sudan and Egypt. Ethiopia at the same time opened its first major dam on the Nile.
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Ugandan rebels increase terror in neighbour countries
afrol News, 14 May - There is now "a dramatic rise in the frequency and brutality of attacks" by the Ugandan armed group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) against civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and the Central Africa Republic. Uganda is asking neighbours to be allowed to take action.
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Besigye again Uganda's opposition candidate
afrol News, 15 April - Kizza Besigye was today declared candidate for Uganda's 2011 presidential by the Forum for Democratic Change (FDG), the country's main opposition party. He will face President Yoweri Museveni in the polls.
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Uganda tombs to be reconstructed
afrol News, 13 April - An expert group has concluded that it is "feasible" to reconstruct the Tombs of Buganda Kings, Uganda's only World Heritage List site, lost to fire last month. The Ugandan government has secured UNESCO assistance for the works.
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LRA now also in Central African Republic
afrol News, 31 March - The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), one of Africa's most brutal rebel groups, now have attacked civilians in a fourth country, the Central African Republic. The looting and massacring rebels are becoming a regional threat to security and stability.
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Uganda turning into an oil economy
afrol News, 19 March - Major oil fields are being developed, refineries and an oil pipeline to the coast are planned and large amounts of petrodollars soon will flow into Uganda's strained budgets. But lack of economic transparency and very poor public financial administration raise concerns of an "oil curse" in Uganda.
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» 17.03.2010 - Uganda's Unesco-listed royal tombs lost to fire
» 04.03.2010 - Red Cross appeals for aid
» 02.03.2010 - Reject anti-gay bill - activists
» 01.03.2010 - Experts urge Uganda to drop anti-homosexuality bill
» 12.02.2010 - "Easy to double African banana yields"
» 02.02.2010 - Scores slaughtered by rebels in DRC
» 01.02.2010 - Voice sms, a success in Uganda
» 26.01.2010 - US mission to address E/Africa human rights before AU Summit
» 22.01.2010 - Anti-homosexuality law threat to fighting AIDS
» 21.01.2010 - 50,000 fruit farmers in Uganda and Kenya empowered to supply Coca-Cola
» 14.01.2010 - Museveni distances himself from anti gay bill
» 11.01.2010 - Uganda’s legislator rejects call to withdraw anti-gay bill
» 08.01.2010 - Uganda to review anti-gay bill
» 05.01.2010 - Govt sued to disclose oil deals
» 14.12.2009 - Uganda hails anti-Female Genital Mutilation bill
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