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Hong Kong captain Nizakat Khan’s team are battling organisational challenges as well as their opponents in Uganda. Photo: Dickson Lee
Cricket Hong Kong

Hong Kong confronted by chaos at critical Challenge League tournament in Uganda

City team at start of 3-year quest to recapture their ODI status face hosts on Sunday following one win, one defeat from opening two matches.

Cricket Hong Kong

Hong Kong cricket ‘fighters’ targeting global recognition ahead of crunch games

China-Africa relations

‘Quite crucial’: Ugandan rail deal spurs hope of Chinese project resumption

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Africa

Slain Ugandan Olympian buried with full military honours

The fate of Cheptegei triggered anger in Kenya over the violence that women often face daily.

People stand on the roadside as the hearse carrying Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei’s coffin in Uganda. Photo: Xinhua
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Alleged killer of Ugandan athlete Cheptegei dies from burns, hospital says

The man, the former partner of the 33-year-old marathoner, had sustained 30 per cent burns when he attacked her over a property dispute.

Africa

Uganda police find 24 human skulls at Kampala shrine

The grisly find comes only a month after 17 other skulls – including those of children – were unearthed in a separate case in the East African country.

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Africa

Death toll from Uganda rubbish dump landslide rises to 35

The landslide followed torrential rains that have battered parts of the East African country in recent weeks, triggering extensive flooding and damage.

Rescuers carry the body of a victim retrieved from the site of a garbage dump landslide at Kiteezi landfill in Kampala, Uganda. Photo: Xinhua
Africa

Death toll from landslide at Uganda rubbish dump rises to 21

At least 14 people have been rescued so far, police said, adding that more could still be trapped but the number was unknown.

Africa

Uganda anti-corruption protests are ‘playing with fire,’ warns President Museveni

Security forces arrested dozens who tried to demonstrate against high-level corruption in protests that authorities said were illegal.

International Cricket Council

Uganda’s dreams ‘come true’ at T20 World Cup as they prepare to face New Zealand

Indian Abhay Sharma was named head coach of the men’s national team less than a month ago while captain Brian Masaba was the skipper with the second-highest number of wins in T20 internationals.

Uganda’s national cricketers are preparing to compete in the World Cup for the first time in their history. Photo: AFP
China-Africa relations

What has driven China to bankroll controversial Ugandan pipeline?

As China pumps money into the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, observers say its motivation is unlikely to be economic.

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China has stepped in to bankroll the controversial East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project. Photo: Handout
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Hong Kong’s men get Spain in draw for final Olympic sevens qualifying event

Draw for World Rugby Sevens Repechage tournament in Monaco pits men in Pool C alongside Spain, Papua New Guinea and Brazil, with women in Pool B alongside Uganda, Paraguay and Jamaica.

Africa

Uganda court declines to block harsh anti-gay law, but sees rights infringed

Uganda’s constitutional court declined to nullify or suspend an Anti-Homosexuality law that prescribes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts.

Crime

ICC allows in absentia hearings in case against Ugandan warlord Kony

Joseph Kony, the founder and leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, is the International Criminal Court’s longest-standing fugitive. An arrest warrant was issued against him in 2005.

Fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony. Photo: AP
China-Africa relations

Uganda asks China to go further in opening up its market for African products

Yoweri Museveni builds on previous calls for more Chinese imports of value-added goods in Kampala meeting with Vice-Premier Liu Guozhong.

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China’s Vice-Premier Liu Guozhong at the Non-Aligned Movement ‘s 19th summit in Kampala on January 19. Photo: AFP
China-Africa relations

Uganda to start building oil pipeline with pipes from China, as opposition mounts

First 100km of line pipes for the massive cross-border EACOP project have arrived in the port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Environmental and rights groups say pristine ecosystems, biodiversity hotspots, water resources and community land are under threat.

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Art

Uganda’s growing art scene reflects rising global interest in African art

African art is attracting rising interest at home and abroad as galleries open up in African cities and artists’ works set records at auction. Artists, collectors and gallerists reflect on the trend.

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China-Africa relations

Uganda chases China after human rights issues see Western lenders leave

The World Bank and Western backers have withdrawn funding to Uganda over human rights and environmental issues.

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After Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni passed severe new anti-LGTBQ laws criminalising homosexual acts, the World Bank froze new loans for the East African nation. Photo: AP
North Korea

North Korea closes embassy in Uganda dating back to Idi Amin’s brutal rule

The move ends a half-century of diplomatic presence in one of Pyongyang’s longest-standing African allies. North Korea has provided Uganda with weapons and other military equipment as well as training for its security forces in the past.

Africa

Uganda police ‘escort’ opposition leader Bobi Wine home, deny arrest claims

Bobi Wine a prominent critic of President Yoweri Museveni was detained by security officials according to his political party, but police denied he had been arrested and said he was “escorted” home.

China-Africa relations

Chinese lenders step in to back crude oil pipeline in Uganda

Several major Western banks have pulled out of investing in the project due to pressure from environmental groups.

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The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) has seen Western banks pull out of financing the project over environmental concerns. Photo: Handout
Africa

Uganda president vows to hunt attackers ‘into extinction’ after massacre

Dozen of people in Uganda, mostly students, were massacred on Friday in an attack blamed on a group with links to Islamic State.

Relatives mourn as a victim of the attack by suspected rebels us buried in Nyabugando, Uganda. Photo: AP
Africa

At least 41 killed, children slashed with machetes in brutal militant attack on school in Uganda

Dormitories were set on fire and children slashed with knives and machetes in a brutal late-night assault by the Allied Democratic Forces group, which is one of the deadliest groups active in DR Congo’s strife-torn east.

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China-Africa relations

Will Uganda’s Turkish move be the key for China’s return to Kenyan rail link?

Uganda has signed on Turkish firm Yapi Merkezi to build its share of a four-nation railway. This makes a strong case for commercial viability, concerns over which saw China’s Exim Bank refuse to fund the remaining section in Kenya.

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Africa

International outcry as Uganda’s anti-gay bill signed into law

The draconian measures against homosexuality, under which repeat offenders could face the death penalty, have been described as among the world’s harshest.

A gay Ugandan couple cover themselves with a pride flag as they pose for a photograph in Uganda in March. Photo: AP
Africa

Uganda’s harsh new anti-gay legislation blasted by UN, rights groups

The legislation adopted by parliament on Tuesday would allow people found guilty of ‘aggravated homosexuality’ to face the death penalty. People who engage in homosexual acts can face life in prison.

Bubulo MP John Musira, dressed in an anti-gay gown, leaves the Parliament chambers in Kampala, Uganda on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters
Africa

Load of rubbish: Ugandan makes innovative tourist boat

Former tour guide James Kateeba built the vessel in response to tons of plastic waste in Lake Victoria.

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Ugandan man with 102 children admits he has been ‘irresponsible’

They say it takes a village to raise a child, but in Musa Hasahya Kasera’s case, he has produced a family large enough to form a village.

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last updated:
29 November, 2024
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