Police in Soroti are hunting for a person who threw a one-day-old baby boy at a rubbish pit near Trends Discotheque in Soroti town, Eastern Uganda. The infant was found on bare grass on Monday morning by the area LC1 chairperson, Mr Noah Otedor, who...

Four former army officers have been condemned to death by a military tribunal in Equatorial Guinea for their involvement in an attack on the presidential palace in 2009, state television reported Sunday. A human rights campaigner tells RFI that they...

All was going well just before the flamboyant Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gadaffi, reached the security checkpoint at the venue of the ongoing 15th Ordinary Session of the African Union heads of state summit in Munyonyo on Sunday. Riding in a...

The main international backers of Somalia’s government have pledged additional resources for the drive to defeat al-Qaida-linked militants trying to establish a beachhead in the Horn of Africa. The issue was discussed at a high-level meeting...

Nine illegal Somali immigrants died after the boat they were travelling in capsized and sank in the Mozambican northern province of Cabo Delgado, police said on Tuesday. Police spokesman Pedro Cossa said the boat carrying 82 Somali nationals capsized...

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who faces the risk of arrest on war crimes charges, has not been invited to next month’s African Union conference in Uganda, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said in a statement. The International...

When agricultural researchers started trials for apple growing in the highlands of western Uganda, many local farmers refused to take them seriously. The climate in these highlands, which are close to the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains and stand at...

Two out of every 10 Ugandans – about six million people – believe in witchcraft or the protective power of sacrifices to spirits or ancestors, a survey shows. The survey, conducted by the US-based Pew Research Centre, however, also shows that Uganda...

In 2008, the ratio of female to male professors at Makerere University was at a staggering 1:43. Two years down the road and it is at 1:9 thanks partly to the spirited work by Makerere University Mentoring Initiative that nurtures and motivates their 94...

Lawmakers on the Public Accounts Committee have threatened to order the arrest of Information and National Guidance Minister Kabakumba Masiko after she failed to appear before the accountability committee for a scheduled early morning hearing. Ms...