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Ugandan security agencies on Friday foiled a bomb plot in the capital Kampala just a week after Somali militants threatened terror attacks on the city.
Gerald Olengor, a night watchman who found the bomb at Bhatia Tower located on the main street...
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Somalia’s junior minister for defence who was briefly held in Uganda has been released, Uganda’s army spokesman says.
Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad, a former Islamist warlord, was detained by Ugandan security forces during a trip to the capital...
At least 58 people were killed when Guinean security forces fired into the crowd at an opposition rally at a football stadium yesterday, according to a human rights organisation in the country.
Witnesses said several prominent opposition leaders were...
As African countries still struggle to control the deadly AIDS epidemic, they are also grappling with debates over what rights and duties to give those living with the disease — a growing segment of the population that remains largely hidden.
In many parts of the world, electricity is a luxury. People spend hours gathering firewood to cook their dinners or warm their homes. In Uganda, only 10 percent of the population has electricity, the vast majority doesn’t have microwave ovens,...
President Alan García struggled over the weekend to defuse a protest by Amazon indigenous groups that left more than 50 police and Indians dead.
The demonstrations against government plans to develop oil, natural gas and forestry resources turned...
Here is the political scientist Richard Joseph of the Brookings Institution on Yoweri Museveni’s Uganda: “[Uganda] is the model country in the reconfiguration of power in late 20th century Africa”. Joseph goes on to praise Uganda for...
Gangs loyal to Robert Mugabe have covertly rampaged across Zimbabwe’s countryside for weeks. They wield axes and crowbars as well as AK-47s; some wear Zimbabwean military uniforms. Survivors tell of witnessing awful sights. A villager being lashed...
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