Police arrested dozens of people Tuesday as young Ugandans took to the streets of the capital Kampala to protest high-level corruption, despite the government threatening a crackdown, the Associated Press reported. Security forces detained around 60 people who attempted to enter the country’s parliament. Police and...
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Barred from staging street protests, Ugandans are leveraging social media to shine a light on the misdeeds of their corrupt and incompetent leaders. The latest online protest, or “exhibition,” is trending under #UgandaParliamentExhibition on X (formerly Twitter), and it details how bureaucrats are abusing public...
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A Ugandan man became the first person in the country to be charged with “aggravated homosexuality,” an offense that is punishable by death under a recently enacted anti-gay law, Reuters reported Tuesday. Ugandan authorities said the 20-year-old individual was charged this month after he “performed unlawful...
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Suspected militants killed 42 people – mostly students – at a school in western Uganda over the weekend, the latest bout of violence from rebel groups operating near Uganda’s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sky News reported. Ugandan authorities said the death toll...
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed into law a controversial anti-LGBTQ bill that will allow the death penalty for some same-sex relations, a move that could put the African country in jeopardy with international donors, the Wall Street Journal reported. The new law was first...
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni refused to sign into law a new bill that would impose harsh penalties including death against homosexuals, and requested that lawmakers revise the controversial draft legislation, Al Jazeera reported. Museveni ordered the amendments following a meeting with legislators of his ruling party,...
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Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the son of the long-serving president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, a 78-year-old who has been in office since 1986. Muhoozi, as he is known, only months ago ran afoul of his father when he tweeted flip references to invading neighboring Kenya. “It...
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Uganda passed a law on this week making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence, NBC News reported. While more than 30 African countries, including Uganda, already ban same-sex relations, the new law...
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Ugandan officials said they wouldn’t renew the mandate of the United Nations human rights office in the country, claiming the East African nation has made progress in developing a domestic capacity to monitor such issues, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday. The Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said...
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Uganda will send around 1,000 troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to aid Congolese troops against an ongoing rebel offensive in the country’s east, Agence France-Presse reported. The soldiers are part of a joint regional force deployed by the East African Community (EAC)...
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A Ugandan university came under fire this week after it ordered its female nursing and midwifery students to take pregnancy tests before their exams, sparking a backlash from women’s rights advocates and politicians, CNN reported. Earlier in the week, Kampala International University issued a now-withdrawn notice...
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Uganda ordered the shuttering of all schools two weeks before the end of term as the country races to contain the latest Ebola outbreak, Al Jazeera reported. Officials said the government will close preschools, primary and secondary schools on Nov. 25, saying that the densely packed...
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An Ebola outbreak is occurring in Uganda, raising fears that the country will not be able to contain and control the deadly disease in the East African nation, reported CNN. Public health officers are scrambling to trace contacts between potentially infected people and everyone else,...
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Uganda paid the first installment of $325 million in war reparations to the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this week, which is compensation for losses caused by wars in the 1990s when Ugandan troops occupied Congolese territory, Reuters reported Monday. Officials from both countries...
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