Uganda's veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye (C) reacts as supporters and media watch him being escorted by military police out of the Makindye Martial Court in Kampala, on November 20, 2024 ...

Uganda is gearing up for general elections in January 2026 – the seventh since President Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986. As in the lead-up to previous polls, repression is on the rise.

“If we speak the same language, we can transform our economies. Uganda and DR Congo shouldn’t be divided by administrative boundaries.” ...

SAMIDRC was sent to assist Kinshasa's fight against rebel groups in Congo's war-ravaged eastern borderlands in December 2023. M23 have seized east Congo's two biggest cities since January in an ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A boat has capsized after catching fire in northwestern Congo, leaving at least 50 people dead and hundreds missing, a local official said on Wednesday. Dozens were saved ...

The local resistance committee, a grassroots aid group, said the civilians were killed on Wednesday in clashes following an artillery attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Migrants from Bangladesh, Colombia, Morocco and Tunisia are unlikely to be granted asylum in Europe and should have their applications fast-tracked so they can be sent home more ...

according to local media sources. Kozyreva began her anti-war activism in 2022. That ...

The ongoing tariff war is already showing signs of altering the global financial system, as we know it. Per the Bank of Uganda, in FY 23/24, Uganda’s exports to the US were valued at $94.70 million.