About 67.4 million people in the Horn of Africa are food insecure, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East ...

The Supreme Court in Kampala has halted the trial of civilians before the General Court Martial and ordered that the cases be transferred to ordinary courts of law with competent jurisdiction."All ...

On January 7, 2025, soldiers blocked human rights lawyer Eron Kiiza from entering the defendant’s section of a military court ...

Uganda’s Supreme Court ruling declaring military trials of civilians unconstitutional is a victory for human rights.

The World Health Organization ( WHO)  has allocated US$ 1 million (sh3.7 billion) from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies ...

A shifting political calculus by sponsors of the M23 rebel group risk triggering another war in the Great Lakes Region, underscoring the importance of African mediators and global partners acting ...

The law provides that elected leaders who are against such a merger are at liberty to defect to other parties or become ...

East African leaders have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), amid fighting that ...