South Sudan is to provide community militia groups with weapons to fight the brutal Ugandan Lord?s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group, the governor of the hardest hit region said on Monday. Self-defence groups known as “Arrow Boys” —...

On a Friday in Goma central prison in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 25 dirty, barefoot men accused of illegal fishing in Lake Edward are gathered before three judges, who come once a week to hear cases against those locked up in a building...

The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, has said he is working out a comprehensive operation to arrest indicted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and LRA leader Joseph Kony. “The court process can wait but the...

The March 11 country human rights report released by the American government faults the Ugandan government in at least 18 areas of serious human rights abuse, which among others include arbitrary and politically motivated killings, abductions; electoral...

State House has sold off President Museveni’s old jet ending, public criticism that the President was lavishly keeping two luxurious jets for his comfort at the expense of taxpayers. State House Comptroller Richard Muhinda told MPs on the Presidential...

THE Government has set up a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate the increasing number of suspected ritual murder cases. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Kirunda Kivejinja, informed Parliament yesterday that the commission would be headed by...

The British Broadcasting Corp. suffered criticism from lawmakers Wednesday for inviting debate on whether homosexuals should face execution in Uganda. The broadcaster launched an on-line debate over a proposed Ugandan law that would punish some...

Rwanda is set to succeed in its bid to join the Commonwealth this week despite serious concerns over its human rights record, according to a senior source close to the negotiations. A summit of Commonwealth heads of government in Trinidad and Tobago...

Up to a thousand foreign fighters, including Britons, have answered the call to jihad in Somalia and are leading street-fighting Islamist extremists in the war-torn capital Mogadishu, The Times has learnt. Early yesterday the Western-backed Government...

Ethiopia announced Monday it was severing ties with Qatar, accusing the Gulf Arab state of supporting armed opposition groups across the Horn of Africa region. It cited Qatar’s “strong ties” with Ethiopia’s arch-foe Eritrea, and...