Samson Bagonza, the former chief engineer at the Ministry of Works and Transport, was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison by a judge who said the convict’s effort at contrition was weak. “There is no art to find the mind’s contrition in...

The International Criminal Court conference opened in the Ugandan capital Kampala, with delegates preparing to discuss the Hague court’s future, and proposed changes to its founding treaty, the Rome Statute. But, Kenya and Sudan are making sure...

Mukhwana lost his leg and arm at one year when he and his twin brother were left home alone asleep. Now six years old, he needs artificial limbs to enable him attend school like his brother Wamono who is in P 1, writes David Mafabi As I get to Itaala...

A long civil war, frequent droughts, unemployment and high food prices have led to an increase in the number of street children in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Somalia’s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, with NGOs and government...

The Member of Parliament for Tingey county Herbert Sabila (NRM) has been convicted on charges of corruption and remanded to Luzira prison. The Anti-Corruption Court Justice John Bosco Katutsi says the case in which Mr Sabilah and two were accused of...

The state on Thursday moved to protect the principal that a man can have more than one wife. The Attorney General’s office has responded to a petition seeking to nullify the practice of polygamy by arguing that polgymay is protected by the...

A BBC investigation into human sacrifice in Uganda has heard first-hand accounts which suggest ritual killings of children may be more common than authorities have acknowledged.

Inter-tribal clashes that raged over two months in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo killed 270 people, the Congolese government said on Tuesday. Fighting broke out in late October between two tribes, the Lobala and the Bombona, in a...

At Twincoz Bar, the clinking of beer bottles and the usual chorus of tusayukire wamu (cheers) has been deadened by a mournful mumble. Around the plastic tables of the roadside joint on the outskirts of Kampala, patrons talk of the scourge of sudden...

welve schoolgirls who died in a fire at a school in Tanzania will be buried in a mass grave because their bodies cannot be identified, officials say. The education department said the girls would be buried on Tuesday on the school grounds in Idodi,...