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Ugandan police arrested opposition leader Kizza Besigye, who lost February’s election to President Yoweri Museveni, after his party announced he would be sworn-in in an alternative inauguration ceremony in the country. Check also: As Ugandan Troops Withdraws From AU Mission, Is Kony’s LRA Finished? Voters re-elected Museveni for a fifth term with 60.8 percent of the February 18 vote, ahead of Besigye on ...

The Ugandan government in late August awarded oil production licenses to Total SA(NYSE:TOT), which should allow the company to begin activities required for future production. Total has made East Africa a primary focus for production growth, largely because of the immense Ugandan reserves. Here’s why Total seems so intent on beginning production activities and how this factors into its overall growth ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake shook the Lake Victoria region of East Africa on Saturday, killing at least 11 people in Tanzania, a police official said. The country’s president said that many were dead. Check also: Facebook to donate $2 million to victims of Nepal earthquake The quake was felt as far away as western Kenya and parts ...

Uganda is pulling out of the hunt for Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army ( LRA ), taking with it the best hopes of eliminating the militia once regarded as one of the world’s most brutal. The withdrawal of the roughly 2,500 Ugandan troops from an African Union military mission, which is set to be completed by the end ...

MPs  will bag Shs200m instead of Shs150m as had earlier been budgeted by the Parliamentary Commission, it has emerged Check also: US objects towards Uganda’s ban on second hand-clothes A Parliament official privy to the decisions by the Parliament Commission told Daily Monitor that the deal to increase the MPs’ vehicle money by Shs50 million was reached at during a meeting ...