Two freelance producers for the CBS reality television show The Amazing Race were poisoned after a failed shakedown attempt in Africa, leaving one dead.
Bahati’s bill may simply be a form of grandstanding since homosexuality is already illegal in Uganda, as it is in most African nations.
U.S. fast-food giant Yum Brands Inc. plans to open 130 new KFC stores in Africa this year, bringing its presence on the continent to 1,000 restaurants, the Business Day newspaper in South Africa said on Friday, citing a senior executive.
President Obama defended some of his controversial decisions at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.
Actress and CES ambassador Eliza Dushku spoke with two Samsung executives, asking them to lend their support Tharce-Gulu, a charity for victims in northern Uganda. She also gave an exclusive interview to the IBTimes.
In the aftermath of the war's “official cessation” in 2003, many more people continued to die, from both disease and periodic armed conflicts.
Is there something mystical about the number 69?
Kim Jong Il, like Muammar Gaddafi , has died at age 69 after decades of tyrannical rule. But as North Korea scrambles to determine the country's future, many more dictators remain in power. From Arab Spring autocrats in Syria and Sudan to the leaders of Ethiopia and Uganda, here are the eight worst dictators still in power today.
The Pakistan Senate has unanimously passed two bills, on Dec. 12, which awards strict punishments to those accused of throwing acid on women.
On Tuesday the Obama administration said it will use foreign aid to promote and protect LGBT rights around the world.
Charles Ingabire was killed in a bar in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, but few details of the murder have yet emerged.
Rebel group al-Shabab raided a number of humanitarian organizations in Somalia on Monday, adding a militant exclamation point to their new ban on 16 aid agencies working in the famine-stricken country.
It was not the acclaim of an international prize that motivated a 11-year-old Pakistani girl to oppose the Taliban's decision to ban education for girls in her neighborhood. Malala Yousufzai, now 13, attracted attention from around the world and focused it on the sorry state of affairs in the Swat Valley, which is located close to the Afghan-Pakistan border, simply because she wanted a better life, where nobody would stop her from learning or watching her favorite Indian television series.
Cassava is crucial to the health of Africans, providing much-needed carbohydrates for around 200 million people on the continent.
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has indicated to parliament he is not likely to delay approval of Tullow Oil's long proposed partnership with Total and CNOOC further, because it would diminish his government's credibility in future negotiations.
he murder provoked outrage in Europe and the United States, leading to calls for Kampala to legalize homosexuality.
Kenya Airways used fuel hedges to protect its bottom line from an escalation in direct costs in its first-half ended September, it said on Thursday, as it prepares to raise funds to finance its expansion.
Kenya's central bank bared its teeth against stubbornly high inflation on Tuesday with a record rate rise that is seen supporting the shilling, boosting appetite for long-term bonds and helping secure the approval of extra funds from the IMF.
South Africa's Allied Technologies Ltd is in talks to pay up to $60 million for unlisted Kenyan IT firm Symphony, according to a person familiar with the matter, to help revive its struggling business in fast-growing east Africa.
Nigerian legislators started hearings this week on a bill that would criminalise same-sex marriage and could make it punishable by five years in jail.
Ugandan police released opposition leader Kizza Besigye on Monday, hours after detaining him for the second time in a month, but warned they would keep seizing him if he tried again to take part in protests against surging prices.
According to reports, of the 54 nations of the Commonwealth, three-fourths (41) have laws which ban homosexuality.
