Uganda's president has dismissed threats from Somali Islamist insurgents that they will attack his country.
For years, Charles Wesley Mumbere worked as a nurse's aide in Maryland and Pennsylvania, caring for the elderly and sick. No one there suspected that he had inherited a royal title in his African homeland when he was just 13.
A Ugandan official says the country wants to claim a $5 million reward offered by the United States for the capture of a Rwandan genocide suspect.
Uganda released Somalia's state minister for defense on Wednesday, hours after arresting him because he did not inform Ugandan authorities of his visit, officials said.
A human rights group has urged Uganda to set up an independent inquiry into the deaths of more than 20 protesters last month because security agents may have deliberately killed some of them.
He's hairy, his table manners are atrocious, and he wants to be your friend on Facebook.
The death toll from riots in Uganda's capital has risen to 21 people, including a 2-year-old boy killed by a stray bullet, officials said Monday.
Rioters angry over political and land issues clashed with government forces for a second day Friday, and at least six people were killed in Uganda's capital and an outlying area.
An army spokesman says Ugandan forces have rescued 100 kidnapped children and young adults during an operation against a brutal Ugandan rebel group in neighboring Central African Republic.
Uganda said Monday it would arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he enters the country, an unusual stance after a summit of African leaders denounced the international arrest warrant against al-Bashir.
The bodies of nearly 11,000 Rwandan genocide victims that floated more than 100 miles downriver and were placed in makeshift graves in Uganda will receive proper reburial, Rwanda's ambassador said Sunday.
Uganda began withdrawing troops hunting brutal Lord's Resistance Army rebels in neighboring Congo after the deadline for them to leave expired Sunday, an army spokesman said .
A two-story building collapsed in the Ugandan capital on Friday, killing at least five people and leaving dozens trapped under the rubble.
A cargo plane carrying equipment for African Union peacekeepers in Somalia caught fire and crashed into Uganda's Lake Victoria shortly after takeoff Monday, killing all 11 people on board, authorities said.
The Ugandan army accused the country's rebels of torching a Catholic church crowded with worshippers in eastern Congo, killing some of them.
Three African nations are deploying troops to remote eastern Congo after reports that Ugandan rebels killed more than 400 people in a series of massacres since Christmas, officials said Wednesday.
Uganda says more than 70 percent of the camps used by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army in remote eastern Congo have been destroyed.
Hundreds of thousands of victims of a brutal 20-year insurgency in northern Uganda remain destitute and traumatized because the government has not created a comprehensive reparations program, rights group Amnesty International said Monday.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court called Monday for renewed efforts to arrest a notorious Ugandan rebel leader following reports of a new wave of attacks.
The Bush administration on Thursday slapped new sanctions on the leader of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army rebel group as patience wears thin with the slow pace of peace talks with the African nation's government.
Stephen Batte works in a quarry under the blazing sun, chipping rocks into gravel with a homemade hammer. It's tiring, boring and dangerous.
Ten people being held in connection with a fire that killed 19 Ugandan schoolgirls are all school employees, a senior police official said Saturday.
A fugitive rebel leader failed to show up in a jungle clearing Friday to sign a peace agreement, quashing the latest hopes for a resolution to a vicious Ugandan insurgency.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Tuesday that rebels due to stand trial at the International Criminal Court for rape, mutilation and murder will instead face justice in Uganda at the request of their victims.
Rebels signed a deal Friday with the Uganda government on major steps to end a brutal 20-year insurgency — a step forward in ongoing peace talks that have progressed in fits and starts for more than a year.