Uganda
17 Apr
Businesses shut down in major towns and cities across Uganda on Wednesday in protest at high taxes and a newly enforced revenue collection system. The week-long action was launched by the Federation of Uganda Traders Association on Tuesday and has spread from the capital, Kampala, to many other parts of the country. "We have called…
22 Mar
Uganda's veteran leader, Yoweri Museveni, has appointed his son to head the country's defence forces, the East African nation's government said, capping a dizzying rise for Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
19 Mar
The Ayew brothers, Andre and Jordan alongside 12 other players have made their way to the Black Stars' training camp in Marrakech, Morocco, in preparation for Ghana's upcoming international friendlies against Nigeria and Uganda. This was made known on Tuesday in a statement released on the X handle of the Black Stars after the team…
23 Feb
The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), which on Wednesday, announced that it was withdrawing the men’s national team from participating in the 2025 AfroBasket qualifiers, which begins in Tunisia this weekend, yesterday said it had started moves to get the team to feature in the competition.
18 Jan
Ugandan opposition leader and former presidential candidate Bobi Wine said on Thursday that police had surrounded his residence and put him "under house arrest" ahead of a planned protest.
4 Jan
The Federal Government has announced plans to expand its crackdown beyond Benin Republic and Togo to other African countries like Uganda, Kenya, and Niger Republic to combat the proliferation of fake university degrees The minister of education,Tahir Mamman, made the disclosure on Channels Television on Wednesday. This development follows an undercover investigation by Umar Audu,…
3 Jan
An influential Ugandan pastor and outspoken supporter of President Yoweri Museveni was hospitalised after a shooting attack which killed his bodyguard, police said Wednesday.
2 Jan
Two suspects appeared in a Kenyan court on Tuesday over the murder of Ugandan Olympic athlete Benjamin Kiplagat who was found dead at the weekend with a stab wound to his neck. The two men were ordered detained for 21 days by a magistrate's court in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret to enable police…
26 Dec
Militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) jihadist group burned a grandmother and two children to death on Christmas Day in western Uganda, local officials said Tuesday. The attack in a remote village of Kamwenge district comes a week after 10 people were killed in the same area by the ADF, a deadly militia affiliated…
18 Dec
Uganda's constitutional court on Monday began hearing the first challenge to a draconian anti-gay law that has triggered criticism from the United Nations and led to US visa restrictions on government officials.
14 Dec
Nigeria’s women’s national cricket team will meet hosts, Uganda, today, in their last group game of the ongoing ICC T20 Women’s World Cup Qualifying Championship in Entebbe.
7 Dec
Nigeria women’s national cricket team, the Female ‘Yellow-Greens,’ will depart the country today for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women T20 World Cup Africa qualifier in Uganda, which will run from December 9 to 17 at Entebbe Cricket Oval. Currently ranked 30th in the world, the female national team is hoping to pick one of…
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