Uganda
Uganda reopens borders after 6-month closure over virus
The East African nation imposed one of the earliest lockdowns and border closures on the continent.
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Tanzania, Uganda, ink deal on $3.5bn oil pipeline project
The multi-national plan is led by French petroleum giant Total in partnership with China's CNOOC and struggling British group Tullow Oil, which is seeking to finalise selling its stake in the venture.
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Uganda says it has rare gorilla 'baby boom' in park in country's southwest
Five babies have been born in just six weeks in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, according to the state-run Uganda Wildlife Authority.
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Uganda's Besigye says he will not run in 2021 against Museveni
Kizza Besigye told supporters he would maintain a presence behind the scenes but was now passing the baton.
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Cheptegei smashes 5,000 metres world record at Monaco Diamond League
Cheptegei, 23, had predicted a world record run in the big event of the season and duly delivered as he clocked 12 minutes, 35.36 seconds, destroying the 12:37.35 that Bekele set in the Netherlands in 2004.
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Uganda's tough approach curbs COVID, even as Africa nears 1 million cases
As the number of cases in Africa approaches one million, Uganda’s experience shows what can be accomplished when a government with a firm grip on power acts quickly and enforces a strict lockdown.
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Uganda's Museveni picks up papers for re-election push
Securing a new term would potentially extend the 75-year-old Museveni’s rule of the east African nation to four decades.
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Uganda plans elections in early 2021, but no rallies
The plan to ban rallies and gatherings during the campaign drew a rebuke from a leading opposition politician, who said it was designed to favour longtime President Yoweri Museveni.
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Uganda's reserves will decline sharply without external help - IMF
'This would be below the adequate level of reserves for Uganda, and would leave the country in a vulnerable position,' the IMF said.
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Uganda starts easing one of Africa's strictest lockdowns
Businesses including hardware shops, restaurants, wholesale stores, and others will now be allowed to reopen.
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Uganda's Museveni stars in fitness video to keep citizens indoors
The video had been hotly anticipated on social media after Museveni on Wednesday promised to release it to show Ugandans how to exercise at home during a televised address.
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Uganda pastor charged for alleged coronavirus denial
The prominent cleric, Augustine Yiga, is accused by prosecutors of telling his Revival Christian Church on Friday, in comments carried by local television stations, that there is "no coronavirus in Uganda and Africa".
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Delays and shattered hopes: Uganda still waiting for oil riches
Fourteen years after the discovery of sub-Saharan Africa's fourth-largest oil reserves, not a drop has been extracted.
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Israeli PM Netanyahu in Uganda to boost ties
Benjamin Netanyahu arrived to a rainswept Entebbe airport accompanied by his wife, Sara, before heading to meet Museveni, an AFP photographer said.
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Kenya's Kipruto breaks 10k world record in Valencia
Kipruto bettered the previous fastest time set by Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei, also in Valencia last month, by 14 seconds.
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Uganda police arrest pop-star MP Bobi Wine, teargas supporters
Bobi Wine, a popular figure among young Ugandans, announced last year he would challenge President Yoweri Museveni in the 2021 elections, and on Monday was scheduled to begin a week-long series of consultations ahead of the vote.
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Chaka Chaka thanks South Africans for concern over Uganda incident
Singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka has refuted claims by the Ugandan police that she was deported from the country because she had the wrong visa.
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Yvonne Chaka Chaka: I'm not in danger, I'm alright
Yvonne Chaka Chaka said she decided to leave the country ahead of a scheduled performance on her own accord. She was in that country to perform at a New Year's Eve concert.
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Yvonne Chaka Chaka: I was not deported from Uganda
On Tuesday authorities in Kampala released a video on Twitter saying the singer had been sent back to South Africa because she had the incorrect visa.
