By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 22 March 2007 Following a day of heavy fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the Ugandan commander of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia is urging several African countries, who have pledged to contribute tr...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 19 January 2007 An official with Uganda's ruling party Friday said the party has approved a plan to send a contingent of Uganda peacekeeping troops into Somalia, saying that he is confident Ugandan parliament will approve t...
By Gary Thomas London 23 August 2006 The nations that offered incentives to Iran to get it to halt nuclear enrichment activity are studying Iran's response and pondering what to do next. While details of the response have not been made public, Iran...
By James Butty Washington, DC 24 July 2006 After Uganda's contentious presidential elections earlier this year, President Yoweri Museveni said there was nothing to reconcile between him and Kizza Besigye of the opposition party Movement for Democrat...
By Pearse Lynch Nairobi 05 July 2006 International criminal authorities say the warrant for the arrest of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony stands despite the offer of amnesty by President Yoweri Museveni. Kony, who has led almost two decades of bloo...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 16 June 2006 Boys show the wounds they sustained while fighting for the LRA at a rehabilitation home in the northern Uganda town of Gulu, 2003 The U.N. special representative for children and armed conflict says Uganda must ta...
By Carolyn Weaver Kampala, Uganda 03 May 2006 watch Drug Resistance report Anti-microbial resistance -- germs becoming resistant to medicine -- is part of the natural history of infectious disease. No...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 20 March 2006 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says his troops will pursue members of the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, into neighboring Congo-Kinshasa if the...
By Raymond Thibodeaux Kampala 21 February 2006 When Ugandans go to the polls Thursday they will be voting in the country's first multi-party presidential election in 25 years and the country's current...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 01 February 2006 An Uganda Constitutional Court ruling that bars the military from trying opposition presidential candidate Kizza Besigye on terrorism charges is being challe...