Police opened fire Wednesday on stone-throwing mobs who were protesting rising prices, killing seven people as the United Nations noted that international food prices have risen to their highest in two years—a level that could see unrest...

Al-Shabaab, the Somali militant group that claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts in Kampala on July 11, though born and bred in Somalia, is a many-faced beast that has fed on the blood of fighters drawn from round the extremist Muslim world. Its...

Kisoro Grade One magistrate David Cheptuke Kaye was on Wednesday remanded to Ndorwa Prison in Kabale District after he pleaded not guilty to charges of soliciting a bribe. Court presided over by Grade One magistrate Jude Okumu, remanded the accused...

Court in Masaka has charged a medical doctor with the murder of two people and remanded him in custody until February 16, 2010. Dr Brasio Kabugo, an owner of private clinic in Masaka Town was presented before Masaka Chief Magistrate Moses Katorogo...

Sudan would accept the south’s secession if southerners were to vote for independence in a referendum next year, President Omar al-Bashir said. Speaking at a ceremony marking five years since the end of the north-south war, he said his Northern...

At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control. “I delivered all these children because I didn’t know there was another...

One of Africa’s most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries including in the United States and Europe, a United Nations report said.

A new United Nations report says that the Congolese Army continues to funnel weapons to rebel groups that are smuggling millions of dollars in gold and other minerals out of Congo, helping sustain one of Africa’s bloodiest and most complicated wars.

Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium here last week, with victims and...