Ugandan authorities have banned a renowned LGBTQ rights organization. Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug) has been forced to close with “immediate effect”. The advocacy organization slammed the move as a “clear witch hunt” targeting LGBT Ugandans. Ugandan authorities have banned a renowned LGBTQ rights organization, a big blow for the country’s LGBTQ community. Sexual Minorities Uganda … Read more
Flooding in Bugisu, Mbale, and Kapchorwa killed ten people on Sunday. The death toll went even higher on Monday with rescuers recovering 21 bodies from Mbale. Heavy rains come on the heels of a long drought in large parts of Uganda. Floods caused by torrential rains in portions of eastern Uganda have killed at least … Read more
Victor Kiplangat becomes the first Ugandan to win a gold medal at Commonwealth. He completed the marathon in 2 hrs 10 mins and 55 secs. Diver is the oldest athlete in the athletics competition. Uganda’s first-ever gold medal in the marathon at the Commonwealth Games was won by Victor Kiplangat on Saturday in Birmingham, Alabama. … Read more
Congo Basin traps billions of tonnes of greenhouse emissions. Drilling might unleash 5.8 billion tonnes of carbon. Congo’s government says it would hold oil firms to environmental standards. On Thursday, 30 oil and gas blocks in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be auctioned, opening areas of the world’s second-largest rainforest to drilling that might release … Read more
Police in Uganda use tear gas to disperse protests over rising fuel and food prices in three towns. In Jinja, demonstrators set fire to tyres and blocked roads before police dispersed them with tear gas. Similar scenes played out in the towns of Kamuli and Luuka, witnesses said. Police in Uganda used tear gas to … Read more
Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels tried to storm the area surrounding the jail in Beni. The attack had aimed to liberate ADF commandos. Six civilian lives were lost in a raid earlier this week. Congolese soldiers have thwarted a rebel attack on a prison in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the army said Saturday, after … Read more
Suspected rebels kill at least nine in twin attacks in eastern DR Congo. Militants from the ADF group killed six civilians in town of Beni. The same night, militants also killed at least three people in a village in Ituri. Suspected rebels have killed at least nine people in twin attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, … Read more
Civil society officials blame Allied Democratic Forces for the killings. The raids come despite a months-long military operation. The ADF is claimed by the Islamic State group as its Central African offshoot. ADF rebels killed 14 civilians in two attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said Sunday, blaming the Allied Democratic Forces … Read more
Fighting between army and M23 rebels intensifies in eastern DRC. 13 civilians killed in fighting between June 19 and June 21. Fighting has forced thousands to flee their homes in DR Congo. At least 13 civilians, including four children, were killed in fresh clashes in eastern DR Congo this week, the UN said, amid increased … Read more
Rebels from the M23 rebel group in DR Congo overrun Bunagana trading hub. The town is “under enemy control,” according to a Congolese officer. Thousands of people have fled into Uganda and the DRC territory. A rebel group in eastern DR Congo that the government accuses of receiving support from Rwanda has overrun a trading … Read more
A Ugandan court has ordered the government to reconsider its decision to suspend the country’s most prominent rights organization, giving the organization new life after its operations were halted last August. Chapter Four is one of 54 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) ordered to halt operations following the presidential elections last year, during which opposition leaders were … Read more
“Go pee on the rhubarb!” Engineer Fabien Esculier has never forgotten his grandmother’s unconventional approach to gardening — in reality, it has inspired his profession. Human urine may seem like a crude way of fertilizing plant life within the generation of commercial agriculture, however as researchers search for ways to lessen reliance on chemical compounds … Read more
KAMPALA, March 14, 2022 (AFP) – Ugandan author and activist Norman Tumuhimbise is among nine journalists arrested for offensive communication, police said Monday, the second writer to be detained by the authorities in recent months. Tumuhimbise, who heads a local pressure group The Alternative Movement and an online media platform Alternative Digitalk, was due to launch … Read more
WASHINGTON: The United States is shipping 840,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine to Uganda Tuesday through an international initiative for humanitarian crises, a White House official said. This will be the first shipment of the J&J jab under the “humanitarian buffer,” a stock of vaccines managed by Covax, the international scheme aimed at … Read more
JUBA – When Tunda Henry’s family fled South Sudan’s brutal civil war five years ago, they vowed to return after the upheaval. But as the young nation’s shaky peace process struggles to make progress, he fears that day may never come. Tuesday will mark two years since President Salva Kiir and his deputy Riek Machar … Read more
KAMPALA – A court in Uganda on Tuesday ordered the release on bail of an award-winning satirical writer charged with insulting the country’s ruling family, but barred him from speaking to the press. The chief magistrate granted Kakwenza Rukirabashaija freedom on a cash bail of 500,000 Ugandan shillings ($140/125 euros) and ordered the 33-year-old novelist … Read more
KAMPALA – Seven people died after a lorry they were travelling in lost control and overturned in the northern Uganda district of Lira on Monday. According to the Police, the incident happened on Monday night as vendors were returning from a market outside Lira City. Patrick Jimmy Okema, the police spokesperson for Aswa River region, … Read more
KAMPALA: Uganda on Tuesday reported that it has registered seven cases of Omicron, a new COVID-19 variant. Ruth Aceng, minister of health, told reporters that seven people travelling into the country had tested positive for the variant. She said five of them came from Nigeria and two from South Africa. Aceng said the cases have … Read more
UAE has allowed the entry of travelers from six countries who have valid UAE residency permits and are fully vaccinated. #الطوارئ_والأزمات و #الطيران_المدني تعلنان عن استثناء فئات جديدة من المسافرين من بعض الدول التي تم منع القدوم منها والتي تشمل كلاً من الهند وباكستان وسيريلانكا والنيبال ونيجيريا وأوغندا وذلك اعتباراً من تاريخ 5 أغسطس.#يدا_بيد_نتعافى pic.twitter.com/NB2hEJdKzN … Read more
The United Arab Emirates’ ban on entry from Pakistan, South Africa, and Nigeria remains in place, according to the federal aviation authority, despite Dubai’s announcement that it will reduce entry restrictions from those nations. Dubai, the most populous of the UAE’s seven emirates, is a business and tourism center. Throughout the pandemic, the seven emirates … Read more
Flights from Pakistan and 13 other countries, including Liberia, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Zambia, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and South Africa, will be suspended until 23:59 hrs on July 21, 2021, according to the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority. Cargo flights, as well as business and charter flights, … Read more
Four people have been arrested in Uganda on charges of killing a Gorilla. According to the details, wildlife department officials of Uganda said that the 25-year-old Gorilla was kept in a local park for tourists but it disappeared from the park on June 1 and its body was found the next day. Authorities say a … Read more
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has informed that US President Donald Trump will be filed with impeachment charges by the House of Representatives for allegedly using power. According to international media sources, it is predicted that the impeachment vote might be held before the end of this year in the House of Representatives. It is also predicted … Read more
