Category: Africa

  A gay hate march was held near slain Ugandan gay rights activist’s, David Kato, burial ground and home, in the village of Mukono. Pastor Solomon Male, Reverend Thomas Musoke...

Uganda has one of the highest deaths of newborns in the world with almost 40,000 newborns dying every year.  While the specific deaths due to delayed breastfeeding and use of...

  The government yesterday welcomed the US’ offer of up to $5m (Shs12.8b) to any person who captures or provides information for the arrest of LRA commander, Joseph Kony, or...

  A survey conducted by Sunday Vision asking carefully selected MPs from all the regions of the country has established that majority of the citizens have rejected the Marriage and...

It had been two weeks since Joan Asiimire was referred for a heart operation in India when this reporter met her at the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) in January. Her...

Nelson Mandela is showing “continuous improvement” in hospital where he is being treated for pneumonia, the South African president said on Thursday. “Madiba is stable and we are thankful that...

  The 2011 discovery of a major off-shore gas field, combined with extensive coal reserves inland, has prompted some to suggest that Mozambique, one of the world's poorest countries, has...

Police in southern Tanzania used teargas Wednesday to disperse about 200 Christian rioters attempting to torch a mosque over an animal slaughtering conflict. “The situation is now under control and...

The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has said that President Goodluck Jonathan lacked the moral justification to caution Nigerians against fighting over political leadership because as president of the...

A British peer has, in explosive revelations, said that London’s spy agency MI6 murdered the first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Congo, once described as “the most important assassination of the...