At least 39 people are still missing following a massive garbage landslide in the Ugandan capital Kampala at the weekend that has so far claimed 26 lives, police said Wednesday. The dump site in the northern district of Kiteezi collapsed on Saturday after torrential rains, burying people, homes and livestock in mountains of fetid rubbish.…

The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in the Ugandan capital Kampala has risen to 18, police said on Sunday, amid claims the site was a disaster waiting to happen. Local media said homes, people and livestock were engulfed in mountains of waste at the landfill in the northern Kampala district…

Rebels from the M23 movement captured a border town in eastern DR Congo without a fight on Sunday, local sources said, the same day a ceasefire between DR Congo and neighbouring Rwanda was meant to come into force. Ishasha, on the border with Uganda, was the latest town to fall to the majority-ethnic Tutsi movement…

Uganda has detected its first two cases of mpox (monkeypox), the health ministry said on Saturday, a day after the Africa Union allocated $10.4 million in funding to combat the outbreak. The cases were discovered in the western border district of Kasese, in the towns of Mpondwe and nearby Bwera, the director general of health…

Seventeen human skulls buried in metal boxes have been unearthed at a suspected shrine in the centre of Uganda, police told AFP on Tuesday. Children foraging for firewood outside Kabanga village near Mpigi town, about 40 kilometres (24 miles) west of the capital Kampala, made the grisly discovery on Monday, according to local media. Police…

An environmental activist in Uganda who is opposed to a huge oil project led by French giant TotalEnergies has been freed after five days in detention, his employer said Monday.

Britain on Tuesday imposed sanctions on several Ugandan politicians, including the speaker of the east African country's parliament, following claims of corruption. London said it was the first time its new "global anti-corruption sanctions regime" had been used on individuals facing corruption claims in Uganda, and that it was part of a worldwide crackdown. Anita…

Businesses shut down in major towns and cities across Uganda on Wednesday in protest at high taxes and a newly enforced revenue collection system. The week-long action was launched by the Federation of Uganda Traders Association on Tuesday and has spread from the capital, Kampala, to many other parts of the country. "We have called…

Uganda's veteran leader, Yoweri Museveni, has appointed his son to head the country's defence forces, the East African nation's government said, capping a dizzying rise for Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

The Ayew brothers, Andre and Jordan alongside 12 other players have made their way to the Black Stars' training camp in Marrakech, Morocco, in preparation for Ghana's upcoming international friendlies against Nigeria and Uganda. This was made known on Tuesday in a statement released on the X handle of the Black Stars after the team…

The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), which on Wednesday, announced that it was withdrawing the men’s national team from participating in the 2025 AfroBasket qualifiers, which begins in Tunisia this weekend, yesterday said it had started moves to get the team to feature in the competition.

Ugandan opposition leader and former presidential candidate Bobi Wine said on Thursday that police had surrounded his residence and put him "under house arrest" ahead of a planned protest.