Uganda

Poverty Looms As Gambling Booms in Uganda

Riding on lack of regulation, gambling industry enriching a few and impoverishing the majority:Gambling is currently one of the biggest businesses across the country. According ... Full story

Shock As University Lecturer Stuffs Raw Meat in Briefcase

The Kyambogo University community was treated to shocking drama when an unidentified lecturer stuffed raw meat in his briefcase Friday evening.The academia was celebrating the ... Full story

Corruption Cancer: OPM Fraud - More Donors Cut Aid Video

Denmark has joined the UK and Ireland in suspending development aid to Uganda following the Auditor General's findings of alleged theft of money in the ... Full story

Should Donors Donote Money to Countries With Poor Human Rights? Video

Donors once sent aid to the most despotic regimes to secure strategic national interests. Now they appear to want to use their aid power to ... Full story

Human Trafficking Soars in Uganda Amid Weak Laws

Uganda — The number of girls joining prostitution is increasing in the country. Under the guise of offering them jobs in the city, unscrupulous people are ... Full story

Ugandans Continue to Eat Chimps That Are Going Extinct

Albertine Rift Region — Conservationists struggling to protect the remaining population of Ugandan chimpanzees have raised concerns that people around wildlife reserves in the west ... Full story

Uganda Halts Payments Over 'Ghost Pensioners' Audit

More than 60,000 retired Ugandan teachers, civil servants and soldiers have had their payments halted after an audit exposed "ghost pensioners". Pensioners have not received their ... Full story

At 50, Uganda Has Triumphed Despite Challenges Video

  UGANDA will tomorrow mark its Independence Golden Jubilee. It has been a long journey politically, economically and socially. The New Times' Felly Kimenyi interviewed the ... Full story

Idi Amin

Idi Amin Dada was the military dictator and third President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African ... Full story

France's Total to Spend $650 Million in Uganda

France’s Total expects to drill eight exploration wells in Uganda by the end of next year, and will spend about $650 million on its activities ... Full story

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