Uganda

September 04, 2025

Africa

He Jokes About Trump and Invading Kenya—and May Be Uganda’s Next President

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of the longtime ruler, oversees a key U.S. military partner while boasting about torture and threatening to arrest members of parliament.

Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the eldest son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Photo: Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty Images

August 23, 2025

United States

Abrego Garcia coerced to take guilty plea or be deported to Uganda, his attorneys say

Abrego Garcia was released from criminal custody on Friday.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, leaves the Putnam County Jail, Aug. 22, 2025, in Cookeville, Tenn. Brett Carlsen/AP

September 10, 2024

Sports

Partner who killed Games star now dead

Police say the man who murdered marathon star Rebecca Cheptegei has now died from his injuries sustained in the incident.

By Editors Desk

Uganda's Rebecca Cheptegei (second from right) competing in the women's marathon final in Budapest in August. (Photo by Ferenc ISZA / AFP)

April 06, 2024

Africa

Thousands facing death as country’s vile law takes hold

Thousands of people are once again living in fear of execution after a ruling upheld a country’s terrifying law.

By Editors Desk

Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda, one of the petitioners challenging the constitutionality of the Anti-Homosexual Act, speaks to the media after the delivery of the judgment in Kampala on April 3, 2024. Picture: Badru KATUMBA / AFP

June 17, 2023

Africa

At least 37 killed in attack on school in Uganda, officials say

At least 41 people were killed, most of them students, in an attack by a rebel group on a school in Uganda Friday. At least six people were kidnapped. Ugandan authorities believe an extremist group known as the Allied Democratic Forces was responsible. Chris Livesay has more.

By Editors Desk

A boy is comforted Saturday at the scene of an attack at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe, Uganda. (AFP/Getty Images)

May 30, 2023

Africa

Uganda passes law to stop human organ harvesting and trade

The Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill is among six new laws signed by President Museveni

By Editors Desk

President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni © Minasse Wondimu Hailu / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images

October 18, 2022

Africa

East Africa vigilant as Uganda locks down Ebola epicenter

A lockdown is now in place in the two central districts of Uganda where Ebola has claimed at least 19 lives. Most of the country's immediate neighbors are taking action to keep the deadly virus out.

By Editors Desk

Image: Hajarah Nalwadda/ASSOCIATED PRESS/picture alliance

February 16, 2020

Cinema

Uganda's Queen of Katwe star Nikita Pearl Waligwa dies aged 15

An actress who starred in the Queen of Katwe, a Disney film about a chess prodigy from a Ugandan slum, has died aged 15, Ugandan media report.

DISNEY / Nikita Pearl Waligwa played Gloria, a friend of the protagonist Phiona, who explained the rules of chess

April 03, 2019

Africa

American tourist kidnapped in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park: Officials

American tourist kidnapped in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park: Officials originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

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July 03, 2018

Africa

Social media tax angers Ugandans

Social media users now must pay daily levy of 6 cents