Another Ugandan peacekeeper has been killed by Islamist insurgents in the Somali capital Mogadishu, the second soldier to die there in as many days. A militant Somali Islamist group called the Shabab has taken responsibility for the latest attacks o...
A spokesman for the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group says its leader will not sign a peace agreement with the government of Uganda, unless an International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest is lifted. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Af...
The United States said Monday the government of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe cannot be considered legitimate in the absence of a presidential runoff election. In the wake of opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai's forced departure from the c...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 23 February 2008 Peace negotiators for the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group and Uganda's government have taken another step forward with the signing of a cease-fire agreement. Negotiators say a final peace deal to end the tw...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 13 February 2008 The chief negotiator for the rebel Lord's Resistance Army has denied reports that rebels from the group are heading toward the Central African Republic. The ongoing peace process with the Ugandan government ha...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 21 December 2007 Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has said the leader of the rebel Lords Resistance Army is not ready for a peace agreement. As Derek Kilner reports for VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, Museveni has threat...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 15 November 2007 The spokesman for the Ugandan army says Uganda's 1,600 peacekeeping troops in Somalia will stay in the capital Mogadishu and defend themselves against any attack by militant Somali Islamists, whose leader has vo...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 27 September 2007 Uganda's Minister of State for Defense says she is shocked by accusations that soldiers in the Ugandan army have been illegally logging valuable timber from southern Sudan and taking it back to Uganda. The alle...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 27 August 2007 Ugandan officials are investigating the crash of an army truck late Sunday that killed at least 72 people in the vehicle, including 57 soldiers. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. The truck in which...
By Webb Malcolm Nairobi 22 August 2007 A Ugandan organization that represents the rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals says they are deprived of their rights by the country's law that makes homosexuality illegal. The comments follow an anti-gay pro...