Special Report

FIBA Afro-Basket | Uganda Bounces Back From Sudan Defeat Shocks Nigeria, Advances to Quarter-Finals
KIGALI (Rwanda) – Uganda ended Nigeria’s FIBA AfroBasket 2021 campaign with a shocking 80-62 victory on Tuesday in Kigali. On August 30, 2015, Nigeria lifted their first-ever AfroBasket title in Rades, Tunisia. In t...

IAAF | Uganda’s Cheptegei Breaks World 5000m Record in Monaco as Diamond League Action Returns
World 10,000m champion Joshua Cheptegei announced the return of international athletics with a phenomenal world 5000m record of 12:35.36* at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco on Friday night (14). The Ugandan, who anne...

Special Report | Stealing from the Sick – Full documentary – BBC Africa Eye By Solomon Serwanjja
Everyone in Uganda is entitled to free medicine to combat killer diseases like malaria. Despite Government efforts to improve access to essential medicines, a significant number of people have to use private facilities because ...

NTV Panorama | The rise & fall of Gen. Kale Kayihura
NTV Panorama — Gen. Kale Kayihura’s power was felt in every pocket of the security fabric, yet he was naive to believe that the cloak & dagger games would remain in charge of his destiny. Can he now free himself...

Special Report | Queen of Katwe to Feature at IMF and World Bank 2017 Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, April 21-23, 2017.
Finance ministers and central bankers from around the globe are in Washington this week for meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. A Group of 20 meeting takes place on the sidelines. One such meeting will b...

Special Report | Top Ugandan Policeman AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi Shot Dead in Kampala
The East African — Uganda Police Spokesperson has been shot dead Friday morning in Kampala by unknown gunmen. Mr Andrew Felix Kaweesi, who was also the Assistant Inspector General of Police, together with a bodyguard...

BBC Special Report | Lucrative Trade | Twenty Eight Stolen British vehicles Returned from Uganda
This Report was first published in the British Press last year — on Mar 29, 2016. Ugandan Diaspora News Online is reproducing the report as a warning to the general public to be on the look out for some stolen luxury...

Irish Times | Lawyer Seeking Order Forcing Facebook to Reveal Ugandan Blogger’s Identity Loses Appeal
A High Court judge has said he could not, “in conscience”, order Facebook Ireland to reveal the identity of a blogger who has made clearly defamatory allegations against a Ugandan lawyer. Mr Justice Donald Binchy said he co...

The Washington Post | There is new violence in Western Uganda – Here’s why.
The Washington Post — In Western Uganda, police and military on Sunday raided the Rwenzururu kingdom’s palace in the town of Kasese. The crackdown on suspected militia members among King Mumbere’s royal guards left pa...

Al Jazeera | Eritrean refugees in Israel sent to Uganda and Rwanda
Kampala, Uganda – The sky was still an inky black when the flight from Cairo touched down at Entebbe Airport near Kampala, the capital of Uganda, one morning in mid-January, the fluorescent glow spilling from the small te...