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Fifty-four Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union (AU) 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. “We discovered the lifeless bodies of 54 fallen soldiers...

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world's toughest anti-LGBTQ laws, that includes the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality," drawing Western condemnation and risking sanctions from aid donors. Same-sex relations were already illegal in Uganda, as in more than 30 African...

Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday passed a new version of an anti-gay bill to remove a clause that appeared to criminalize identifying as LGBTQ. President Yoweri Museveni returned the bill last month to the national assembly, asking for changes that would differentiate between identifying as LGBTQ and...

Uganda’s parliament has passed sweeping anti-gay legislation that proposes tough new penalties for same-sex relationships and criminalizes anyone identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ). While more than 30 African countries, including Uganda, already ban same-sex...

A Ugandan lawmaker on Tuesday introduced draft legislation that he said seeks to prohibit homosexuality in the East African country, voicing widespread anti-gay sentiment that has peaked in recent days. The legislator, Asuman Basalirwa, said his bill would punish “promotion, recruitment and funding”...

Rights activists and campaigners have condemned the Ugandan government’s decision to shut down the country’s UN human rights office, describing it as “shameful.” The development comes less than three months after the UN’s committee against torture adopted the concluding observations on Uganda, which...

International Criminal Court appeals judges Thursday rejected the appeal by a former commander in the brutal Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army of his conviction on dozens of charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity and upheld his 25-year sentence. In a landmark judgment nearly two...

“There is no place where you find a registry for war victims and yet they want to be known and remembered,” said Norbert Mao, Uganda's Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, on Tuesday, while launching a report on reparations for survivors of armed rebellion and sexual violence in the...

Uganda has paid $65m in the first installment of the $325m it was ordered to pay the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as compensation for losses caused by wars in the 1990s when Ugandan troops occupied Congolese territory. In a case first brought against Uganda in 1999, DRC asked...

An award-winning Ugandan author who fled his country after being charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni has arrived in Germany along with this son to seek medical treatment after being “tortured” in jail, according to his lawyer. The novelist was jailed in December and later charged with...