Bobi Wine, one of Uganda’s most prominent opposition figures to President Yoweri Museveni, was reported to have been shot in the leg by police while at a political march Tuesday in a northern suburb of Kampala. Ugandan authorities maintain that they were attempting to block Wine and members of his National Unity Platform from entering a road but said in a statement on X that an investigation will be opened. Reporter Mugume Davis spoke to residents of Kampala for their reaction.
Rescue workers in Uganda continue to search for survivors Monday at a vast Kampala garbage dump after a landslide killed at least 24 people. Mugume Davis reports from Kampala.
Uganda was one of the African countries that abstained to vote on a UN resolution condemning Russia when it invaded Ukraine in 2022. According to local observers, the move did not come as a surprise as Uganda has been deepening ties with Russia. For a deeper understanding of the relationship between Russia and Uganda, reporter Mugume Davis Rwakaringialso spoke to Phillip Kashaija, a Lecturer on Political Science and International Relations at Uganda's Makerere University.
A New United Nations research estimates more than 900 million tons of food, or 17 percent of total food available to consumers in 2019, went into the waste bins. Yet millions of people are food insecure. Reporter Mugume Davis Rwakaringi has more from Kampala, Uganda.
KAMPALA — Water experts across Africa are meeting in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, to discuss issues concerning water resource utilization and protection. They say the meeting is timely — given that it coincides with emerging cases of climate-related disasters leading to hundreds of deaths across the region.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni Thursday delivered a televised speech where he urged citizens to stay calm amid the spread of the deadly Ebola virus that broke out in the east African nation last month.
South Sudan-born Paulo Amotun Lokoro prepares for Summer Games in Tokyo, hoping to one day compete under his own country’s flag
The middle-distance runner William Yach Majok will be the country's only athlete at the games, running in the 1,500-meter competition
