High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality — including nearly half the ...
Congress urges the Uganda Parliament to dump its proposed anti-gay bill Both chambers of Congress have introduced resolutions that urge the Uganda Parliament ...
A mortar shell smashed into an African Union peacekeeping mission base in Mogadishu Monday, killing several people, including a soldier, officials on the base said. An 82-mm mortar round struck a secondary entrance to the AMISOM's main Mogadishu base, ripping through an ...
The top civilian official with the African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia on Monday reassured the nation's fragile government of its total support in the fight against insurgent groups. Boubacar Diarra, the AU representative in Somalia, flew into Mogadishu for his first ...
Italian oil group ENI plans to invest 13 billion dollars (9.2 billion euros) to develop hydrocarbons in Uganda after acquiring rights from Canada's Heritage group, an Italian daily reported Monday. ENI, which will acquire half ownership of two hydrocarbon production sites in ...
Uganda will block attempts by British company Tullow Oil to buy assets from Canada's Heritage Oil that would give it control over all of Uganda's confirmed oil reserves, a minister said Thursday. Uganda is instead favouring a bid from Italian oil major ...
A Ugandan lawmaker alleged Friday that the military killed 30 civilians in an air attack on suspected cattle rustlers, and demanded a UN probe into the incident. The army disputed Peter Abrahams Lokii's account of the January 4 incident, which he said ...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has pardoned one of former leader Idi Amin Dada's top lieutenants who had been on death row since 1987, a spokesman said Friday. Museveni, who has been at the helm of the east African nation since 1986, even ...
Uganda will block attempts by British company Tullow Oil to buy assets from Canada's Heritage Oil that would give it control over all of Uganda's confirmed oil reserves, a minister said Thursday. Uganda is instead favouring a bid from Italian oil major ...
Uganda lawmaker David Bahati is expected to attend a prayer breakfast in Washington D.C. Uganda lawmaker David Bahati is expected to attend a prayer breakfast in Washington D.C. Bahati is the author of a controversial bill that would strengthen the criminal penalties ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Circumcising newborn boys to stop them becoming infected with the AIDS virus in later life is more cost-effective than circumcising adult men, Rwandan health experts said on Tuesday. A study by Agnes Binagwaho and colleagues at Rwanda's health ministry ...
A common currency for the East African Community by 2012 remains a realistic target but several technical hurdles need to be overcome, an EAC official said. "The nations involved are very much committed. That?s why there is a short deadline. You can ...
