“We are going to see an increase in violence even before the president signs the bill and we are also going to see blackmail and extortion.” — Human rights advocate Frank Mugisha Activists swiftly ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda plans to borrow $2.34 billion from several lenders, including the World Bank, Standard Chartered ...

(Bloomberg) -- The UK said it imposed sanctions on Uganda’s speaker of parliament for being involved in corruption, but the legislature says the lawmaker is being punished for supporting anti-LGBTQ ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Uganda’s parliamentary speaker, her husband and several other officials over corruption and serious abuses of human rights.

Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday approved some of the world's harshest anti-gay laws, making some crimes punishable by death and imposing up to 20 years in prison for people identifying as LGBTQ+. Ugandan ...

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Across Africa, environmental issues often struggle to gain traction in policy-making. In Uganda, a unique initiative—the ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawmakers have hailed the late former Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Amollo Odinga for his ...

Ugandan lawmakers stand as they pass the Anti-Homosexuality Bill at a session inside the Parliament buildings in Kampala, Uganda, on May 2, 2023. [VOA] Ugandan lawmakers have passed a harsh anti-LGBTQ ...

But Mamdani’s father, Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani, had been named in a 2019 lawsuit that Kadaga oversaw when she was speaker of the Ugandan parliament. Several academics at Makerere ...