Ugandan

Uganda's parliament has passed an amended version of an anti-LGBT+ law that had sparked outrage from many NGOs and Western governments in which it maintained harsh penalties for same-sex relationships and the "promotion" of homosexuality.…

Police in Uganda detained 11 female members of parliament on Thursday who they accused of staging of an unlawful protest, with some of the lawmakers sustaining injuries during their arrest. The lawmakers were detained just outside the…

Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, has backed a controversial bill with some of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but will pass it back to parliament to include provisions for gay people to be rehabilitated. However, at a…

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has refused to sign a controversial new anti-homosexuality bill, which carries the death penalty in some cases, and has called for it to be amended. Museveni's decision was announced late Thursday after…

More than 200 activists gathered outside the Ugandan High Commission in South Africa to demonstrate against the anti-gay bill recently passed by Ugandan lawmakers. The activists, led by South Africa’s leftist Economic Freedom Fighters …

Ugandan parliament has passed sweeping anti-gay legislation which proposes tough new penalties for same-sex relationships following a highly charged and chaotic session. "The ayes have it," parliamentary speaker Annet Anita Among said…

In Uganda, the promoter of a deadly New Year’s Eve event and the concert MC appeared in court. They were granted bail after the hearing by the Makindye Magistrates Court. Promoter Abby Musinguzi and MC Elvis Francis Juuko remain…

African top public health body said says that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda was coming under control, as it had been 39 days since the last confirmed case of the virus had been reported in the country. Officials first confirmed the outbreak…

Nine people died, most aged between 10 and 20, in a shopping mall crush as revellers rang in the New Year in Uganda's capital, police said on Sunday. After fireworks outside the Freedom City mall in Kampala, "a stampede ensued, resulting…

Three more Ebola patients have died in Uganda, the health ministry says, bringing the total death toll to four. This comes days after authorities confirmed an outbreak. "In the last 24 hours, three new deaths have been recorded," the…