KAMPALA—Terrorists linked to ISIS terrorist group killed 37 people and abducted six others in an attack on a school in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said on Saturday. Military personnel found the bodies of the dead when they arrived at the school, defence spokesperson Felix Kulayigye said…

Uganda passed what it calls the “Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023” into law on May 29. More than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries already have laws criminalizing homosexuality, including Uganda, where a colonial-era law makes sexual activity “against the order of nature” a criminal act. Those found to violate the law face life imprisonment, regardless of consent. In…

Uganda passed what it calls the “Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023” into law on May 29. More than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries already have laws criminalizing homosexuality, including Uganda, where a colonial-era law makes sexual activity “against the order of nature” a criminal act. Those found to violate the law face life imprisonment, regardless of consent. In…

A shoebill stork, rescued as a young bird with injuries after Ugandan locals set fire to her habitat, made a huge impression on a visitor from the U.K., a 10-year-old boy from a family of zookeepers. Seventeen years later the pair have been reunited—and the stately stork, whose species is now critically endangered, still inspires…

KAMPALA, Uganda—Uganda’s latest outbreak of the Ebola virus is over, the government and the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Health Minister Ruth Aceng told journalists that no new cases had been registered in the past 42 days. This outbreak was the first in a decade of the less common Sudan strain which, unlike the Zaire…

At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year’s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda’s capital, police said. People started pushing through a passage in the Freedom City Mall just after clocks struck midnight, the police said….

A man in Uganda is offering homeless kids hope for a bright future. He not only teaches these budding acrobats basic gymnastic-style flips but also guides them to shun bad company and seek goodness to unlock their full potential. He dreams of launching these kids as professional Olympians one day and enriches their lives with the…

KAMPALA—The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to 109 and the outbreak has claimed 30 lives, Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said on Wednesday, adding that the government was setting up an additional treatment center. Fifteen of the confirmed cases were among health workers, of whom six had died, she told a…

Uganda has reported nine more Ebola cases in the capital Kampala, bringing the total number of known infections to 14 in the last two days, the health minister said on Monday. The outbreak began in September in a rural part of central Uganda. It spread earlier this month to Kampala, a city of more than…

MUKONO, Uganda—A fire at a boarding school for blind students killed 11 children in a rural community just outside Uganda’s capital, Kampala, the school’s administrator, and police said Tuesday. “One of our dormitories caught fire and burnt at around midnight. The matron made an alarm,” Francis Kinubi, the school’s founder, said. “This was one of…