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Uganda's Rebecca Cheptegei (second from right) sustained burns to 80 per cent of her body. Photo: AFP

Ugandan Olympic athlete dies after being set on fire by her boyfriend

She participated in the marathon at the Paris Olympics

September 5, 2024| AFP
The attack happened in Kasese district, western Uganda. Photo: Shutterstock

Students massacred as militants attack school in Uganda

Army pursues ADF militants following terrorist attack near DRC border

June 17, 2023| AFP
Composite photo showing 38 Maltese men who were interned without a trial and deported in 1942 to concentration camps in Uganda at the height of World War II. Images: National Archives of Malta

The illegal deportation of Maltese nationals to Uganda in 1942

Not one of the internees was ever found guilty of anything before, during or after the war.

February 12, 2023| Joseph F. Grima, Retired casual history lecturer and assistant director of Education
The Rotary Malta school in Luwero District, Uganda.

Rotary Malta helps fund building of Uganda school for 450 children

New primary school replaces a small one destroyed by inclement weather

January 8, 2023| Press Release
Composite photo showing men who were interned without a trial and sent to concentration camps in Uganda exactly 80 years ago. Images: National Archives of Malta

Watch: When Maltese patriots, intellectuals were kicked out of their own country

Malta’s hidden treasures: Exiled from Malta

February 13, 2022| Sarah Carabott
The closure of schools due to COVID-19 has turned teachers into coffin makers. Photo: AFP

Ugandan teachers turn coffin-makers after schools shut

As a COVID-19 surge overwhelmed Uganda earlier this year, Livingstone Musaala, who was forced to quit his teaching job following school closures, turned to coffin-making to pay the bills and help his community. But few welcomed his initiative at first.

October 13, 2021| AFP
Some of the organisations ordered to close had taken part in an election-monitoring operation on polling day in January when President Yoweri Museveni was elected. Photo: AFP

Uganda suspends 54 NGOs including prominent rights group

Some had taken part in an election-monitoring operation on polling day

August 20, 2021| AFP
Museveni shows his ink-stained thumb after voting in the election. Photo: AFP

Yoweri Museveni declared winner in Ugandan presidential elections

Museveni wins sixth term in office as rival alleges voter fraud and violence

January 16, 2021| AFP
Posters of the two most popular candidates for Uganda's Presidential election, incumbent President Yoweri Museveni (yellow) and Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, the pop star-turned-opposition leader, are seen along a street in Kampala, Uganda, on January 6, 2021. Photo: AFP

Uganda orders social media shutdown ahead of general election

Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Signal must all be blocked, regulator rules

January 12, 2021| AFP
Male chimpanzees were chosen for the study because they remain in the communities in which they are born. Photo: Zoom Dosso/AFP

Old is gold: Like humans, aging chimps prioritise important friendships

Chimpanzees are ideal to compare to humans because they live long lives

October 23, 2020| AFP

Watch: Uganda: refugee paradise – ARTE Reportage (ARTE)

Uganda has a unique refugee policy: refugees, arriving mostly from Sudan and DR Congo, are not placed in camps. Instead, they are given small plots of land to build a home and to cultivate.  

October 4, 2020| Times of Malta