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Three Ugandans have been jointly awarded the 2014 European Union (EU) annual Human Rights Defenders Award. The winners include Mr Mohammed Ndifuna of the Human Rights Network Uganda, Ms Gladys Canogura from the Kitgum Women Peace Initiative, ..

President Obama has praised the efforts of the US football team in the World Cup in a phone call to two of its star players, goalkeeper Tim Howard and team captain Clint Dempsey.

Pan African Youth Conference Date: 2-3 July 2014 Location: Serena Hotel, Kigali The Government of Rwanda in collaboration with Umurinzi Young Professionals and Leo Africa Forum will host the Pan African Youth Conference themed ‘Beyond Liberation Movements: Shaping our Future’. As Rwanda celebrates twenty years since its liberation and the end of the Genocide against the Tutsi,... Read more »

The Government plans to recruit 4,000 teachers in secondary and tertiary institutions in order to address the low staffing challenges within the sector, Badru Lubega Wagwa, the chairman of the education service commission has revealed.

There is little Beyonce can do without the entire world taking note, subsequently trying to decode every possible meaning. So, when she changed the lyrics of the heartbreak ballad "Resentment" at a recent tour stop, the Internet spun into a...

The Anti-Terrorism squad has been deployed downtown Kampala following a terror scare.

The controversial MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky has called for Fabio Capello to face a parliamentary inquest after his side fell at the group stage

Opposition politicians, Mr Rashid Sserunjogi (Councillor Bwaise 1), Mr Musa Lukwago (Kyebando East) Kawempe Mayor Mubarak Munyagwa and Mr Muhammad Ssegirinya, the Kawempe North MP aspirant, met on Wednesday to pray for the downfall of President Museveni

Albeit thrusting the western culture down the Ugandans throats drastically has been successful in other areas, there are those where it has failed terribly.

Nelson Aguta celebrated being Masindi’s best student in last year’s UACE exams but failure to fill application forms in time has cost him a place at university.

Mobile money has revolutionised financial services in East Africa, starting with M-Pesa in Kenya and spreading from there. The global association of mobile phone network operators, GSMA, has recent...

Tokyo toy company Takara Tomy has released 'smart nails' that light up. Called LumiDecoNail (pictured) the fingernails are activated when near an NFC device.

Algeria's FIFA World Cup team returned home to a hero's welcome after their historic progress to the knockout stages was ended by Germany in extra time.

Citizens march in front of presidential office for better services and end to what they call poor governance.

Ms Mariam Nabanja, Ham Andrew Ngobi’s widow, tells the media she still does not believe her husband was involved in drug trafficking but was rather framed. She also appeals to the government to help the family get ashes of her cremated husband’s body for a decent burial.

Photographs from South Sudan, where more than six months into an ethnic conflict, the humanitarian situation across the country is deteriorating rapidly, leading to warnings of a widespread famine.

India has the second largest population in the world and so most population related numbers are bound to be big, but even so recently released Census 2011 data throws up a startling statistic -- the number of students is a gigantic 315 million.

A new study by Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDL) shows that more youths don’t use condoms during their first sexual encounter.

However, he cannot appear too eager because it weakens his hand.

The Director Legal Affairs in UCC Suzan Awegoye and the Acting ED UCC Jonas Muhoozi Banturaki before Parliament's Committee on Gender. The Uganda

James Tweheyo, the UNATU Secretary General Uganda's Ministry of Education and Sports is in the spotlight over teachers’ SACCO money. Last year, the