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KAMPALA (UGANDA): A bereaved Ugandan border town on Sunday began burying the victims of a brutal attack on a school by suspected extremist rebels that left 42 people dead, most of them students, as security forces stepped up patrols along…

KAMPALA (UGANDA): A bereaved Ugandan border town on Sunday prepared to bury victims of a brutal attack by suspected extremist rebels on a school that left 42 dead, most of them students, as security forces stepped up patrols along the…

KAMPALA: At least 41 people, including 38 students, have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a school near the Congo border. Mayor of the Ugandan border town of Mpondwe says 41 bodies have been recovered.Police say the rebels from…

KAMPALA: Ugandan authorities recovered the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, following an attack by suspected rebels on secondary school near the border with Congo, the local mayor said Saturday.The victims included the students,…

MOGADISHU: Nine civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday. The Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists have been waging an…

MOGADISHU: Six civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday. The Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists have been waging an insurgency…

Some 54 Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union base in Somalia last week, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said, in one of the worst recent attacks by Al-Shabaab jihadists in the war-torn country.…

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Monday slammed Uganda's draconian new law against homosexuality as a grave human rights violation, and threatened to cut aid and investment in the east African country.He called for the immediate repeal…

KAMPALA: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed one of the world's toughest anti-LGBTQ laws, including the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", drawing Western condemnations and risking sanctions from aid donors. Same-sex…

Quirks and Quarks18:11A Ugandan vet’s amazing story of her work to save mountain gorillasThe plight of mountain gorillas is well documented. But it's a story with some recent — if qualified — good news. In 2018, as their population topped…