The Lonely Planet proclaimed it the top destination in 2012, yet Uganda is still a hidden pearl, writes Geoff Power.

An explosion at an illegal World Cup viewing site in northeast Nigeria killed at least 14 people while security forces arrested a "terror kingpin" among nearly 500 people detained as suspected terrorists in the southeast of the country.

A criminal investigation is under way in Uganda following a second case of financial irregularities in the disbursement of foreign aid.

The Ugandan President signed into law on February 24 legislation that criminalises homosexuality. This new law provides for a 14-year jail term for a first offence and life imprisonment for the offence of ‘aggravated homosexuality’.

Uganda’s health minister has said gay people will not be discriminated against by medical workers despite the strengthening of criminal penalties against homosexuals.

Two US military aircraft responding to the outbreak of violence in South Sudan were hit by incoming fire, wounding three US service member, officials say.

A petrol tanker explosion has killed 29 people in Uganda and left scores more badly burned.

A newspaper in Uganda has reopened after being shut down by authorities for 10 days.

Rebels started to retreat from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern provincial capital today after an attempt to garner ammunition at the airport failed and their original pullout was postponed, a UN official said.

The defence minister of Uganda says he is mediating talks between Congolese officials and representatives of M23, the rebel group that last week took control of the eastern Congolese city of Goma and threatens to topple the government of President Joseph Kabila.

The Government of Uganda is to repay €4m of Irish aid funding which was transferred into unauthorised accounts.

The impact of Ireland’s role in clearing landmines from parts of Vietnam scarred from the war is being seen first hand this week by junior minister Joe Costello.

Uganda has expressed concern at the suspension of Irish aid to the country after €4m of taxpayers’ money went missing in a suspected fraud.

Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore suspended all financial assistance channelled through the office of the Ugandan prime minister Yoweri Museveni after €4m of Irish Aid funding went missing in a suspected fraud.

Some €4m of Irish Aid funding to Uganda has gone missing in a suspected fraud, the Government has disclosed.

A British producer jailed for staging a play about a gay businessman has been freed on bail in Uganda.

IT was Kampala’s famous potholes that drove Ian Clarke into politics.

Concern chief executive Tom Arnold writes from Somalia exactly one year on from the famine that struck the country and wider region, and finds a country that has been rejuvenated

The Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, health officials said, ending weeks of speculation about the cause of a strange disease that had many people fleeing their homes.

Top climate scientists have warned the world’s political leaders to get ready for more dangerous and “unprecedented extreme weather” caused by global warming.

A TEAM of Ugandan and French paleontologists announced last night they had found a 20-million-year-old ape skull in north-eastern Uganda, saying it could shed light on the region’s evolutionary history.

Military police officers shot Uganda’s top opposition politician in the arm and fired tear gas into a hospital as demonstrations against rising fuel and food prices broke out across the country.

Uganda has become the first country to offer Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi refuge if he chooses exile.

TULLOW OIL has signed a critical Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Uganda after several months of discussions.

Millions of Ugandans lined up to vote today in the east African nation’s presidential ballot pitting the country’s long-serving president against his former ally and personal physician.

TULLOW Oil has said it will miss its previously anticipated 2011 target for oil production in Uganda and will not start producing there until next year.

TWENTY-ONE people died after a bus collided with a truck carrying fuel in northern Uganda yesterday.

THE great world spins towards another All-Ireland Sunday. Around the world – for an hour or two at least – Irish feet will not make footprints on the fine sands of southeast Asia’s beaches.

The confessed mastermind of bomb attacks in Uganda against World Cup football fans said he had hoped to kill many more Americans in the explosions in which 76 people, including one American, died last month.

African leaders are pledging thousands of new troops for Somalia to fight al Qaida-linked militants responsible for the twin World Cup bombings that killed 76 people, and the US said it will help bankroll the military campaign.

UGANDAN police have recovered an unexploded suicide vest and arrested six people suspected of planning bombings that killed 76 people, including an Irish woman, on Sunday.

The Irish woman killed in a bomb blast in Uganda on Sunday has been named as Marie Smith.

An unexploded suicide vest containing ball bearings was found in a disco hall in Uganda’s capital, near the sites of two weekend bomb blasts, suggesting that militants planned another attack, officials said today.

Arrests have been made in Uganda following two bombings that killed at least 74 people.

AN Irish citizen is believed to have been among more than 70 people killed in bomb attacks in Uganda as they watched the World Cup final.

An Irish citizen is believed to have been among more than 70 people killed in bomb attacks in Uganda as they watched the World Cup final.

Scores of football fans were killed as they watched the World Cup final on TV by two al-Qaida-linked suicide bombers in Uganda.

Simultaneous bombings bearing the hallmarks of international terrorists ripped through crowds watching the World Cup final in Uganda's capital, killing 64 people.

IRISH troops have spoken of their task, in Uganda, in training 2,000 Somali soldiers to help fight pirates involved in a number of hijacks on international ships.

WHEN Dr Anne Merriman arrived in Uganda almost 20 years ago, the first thing that stood out for her was the number of coffin makers who had set up along the roadsides – the business of death in a country then dealing with the tragedy of an AIDS epidemic.

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin will be seeking closer trade links between Ireland and Africa during a five-day trip to the continent, he said today.

Uganda: PFC Energy, a US oil and gas industry consultant, backed a planned partnership between Tullow Oil Plc, Total SA and China National Offshore Oil Corp to develop Uganda’s oil fields, the East African nation’s presidency said.

Five Irish soldiers will be hand-picked in the coming weeks to train up troops for reputedly the most dangerous country in the world, it was revealed today.

Landslides have swamped three villages in Uganda, killing at least 86 people and leaving hundreds missing after rivers of mud swept through a church and hospital, officials said today.