Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame was yesterday sworn-in for a second term in office. Addressing thousands of Rwandans and over a dozen African Heads of State, Mr Kagame lashed out at NGOs and human rights organisations that are critical of his...

One student died and property worth millions was destroyed on Tuesday when fire gutted a dormitory at Hamdan Girls’ High School in Mbale. Fiona Watawa, 16, a Senior Three student, who was sick and resting at the time the fire, was burnt beyond...

Investigators found an unexploded suicide vest with ball bearings in a disco hall in Uganda’s capital, suggesting that militants planned another attack, officials said Tuesday. Four “foreign” suspects were arrested in connection with...

Authorities in Somalia’s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland have begun repatriating hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, officials told IRIN. “These are people who decided they wanted to return but could not afford to do so,” said...

Members of Parliament have recommended urgent review of the government’s free education system, owing to declining education standards. If government fails to review its free programme, the quality of education in the country will continue to...

Malaria is a preventable and curable disease that kills nearly 1 million people, mostly children, every year. This disease continues to kill in large part because so many poor people living in Africa lack access to safe, effective and affordable...

The gay community in Uganda has turned to social media — blogs, twitter, mailing lists and Facebook — in a bid to garner support for its opposition to the anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 that was recently tabled in parliament. Saying that the media is...

Walk with me down memory lane. The time: 1968. In 30 months, one million dead. The setting: a dusty camp in Biafra where survivors waited and hoped for peace. The survivors: Refugees fleeing from the “Dance of Death.” My mentor: One of the refugee...