A Ugandan newspaper published a list of what it called the country’s “200 top” homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay, one day after the president enacted a controversial anti-gay law.

A Ugandan tabloid has published a list of what it called the country’s “200 top” homosexuals the day after the country’s president signed an anti-gay law.

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed a controversial law that will see homosexuals jailed for life, and dismissed warnings from key foreign allies and donors including the United States.

Rebel forces in South Sudan must accept that “taking power by force cannot work”, the country’s foreign minister said as the two sides in a bloody conflict prepared for peace talks.

Rebels in South Sudan took control of nearly all of a strategic city, even as the government and fighters agreed to hold talks for the first time.

Fresh fighting has erupted in Bor, the contested capital of South Sudan’s Jonglei state, as rebels move to retake control from government troops.

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.

Uganda's government does not support a politician's decision to reintroduce a Bill that originally proposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts, the government said in responding to renewed criticism by rights activists who oppose the Bill.

South Sudan raised the flag of its new nation for the first time today, as thousands of South Sudanese citizens and dozens of international dignitaries swarmed the new country capital of Juba to celebrate the country’s birth.

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

UGANDA’S election commission announced yesterday that the long- time president has won a recent poll, an outcome the opposition is rejecting.

Uganda's election commission announced today that the long-time president has won a recent poll, an outcome the opposition is rejecting.

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.

Uganda’s president says he will jail anyone who tries to spark Egypt-style unrest in the country amid elections today that are widely expected to see him extend his 25-year grip on power.

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.

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.

A hospital used by Ugandan schoolchildren to shelter from the heavy rains turned into a death trap as a landslide engulfed the building, leaving more than 50 pupils missing.

Barack Obama’s nomination as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the US presidency has sparked off a wave of Obamamania in Africa, the continent where his father was born and where many of his relatives live.

Kenya’s deadlocked political leaders were today urged to work together to end the tribal violence sweeping the country.

Riot police in Kenya fired tear gas and water cannons today to beat back surging crowds of rock-throwing opposition protesters who took to the streets for a cancelled rally.

Some members of the Asian community in Uganda’s capital Kampala kept their children home from school, skipped work and left their shops shuttered today, a day after a protest ignited racial violence.

Kenya has sent extra troops to the Somali frontier, stepped up security checks and said it saw no reason for Somalis to flee, underlining fears about Somali Islamic militants slipping across the border after losing a power struggle.

KENYAN soldiers and helicopters beefed up defences at the Somali border yesterday after Ethiopian warplanes and ground forces attacked fleeing Islamists on the other side of the frontier.

The UN’s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, met a Ugandan rebel leader wanted for war crimes today.

Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has told journalists that he is committed to negotiating peace after 19 years of war, and denied he has committed war crimes.

Seven African leaders today reviewed efforts to restore peace in Somalia and Uganda and attempts to resolve a festering border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

The main opposition party will challenge Uganda’s presidential and parliamentary election results in court, charging that officials did not allow a large number of voters to cast their ballots and the results were falsified.

Unofficial results released by newspapers and radio stations today showed a tight race between incumbent President Yoweri Museveni and his leading challenger, Kizza Besigye, in Uganda’s first multiparty election.

Ugandan voters lined up in car parks, village squares and empty fields before dawn today to choose between the leader who has ruled the country for 20 years and four challengers.

THE president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, a great friend of the Irish Government, is attempting to make himself president for a third time.

UGANDA’S military tribunal has ordered the main opposition leader to appear for trial today.

Uganda’s military tribunal has ordered prison officials to produce the main opposition leader for trial on Monday, ignoring a High Court ruling preventing the army from trying him until the legality of the proceeding is determined, his wife said today.

Uganda's president has defended the arrest of the country's main opposition leader ahead of next year's presidential election.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will press Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to ensure fair trials for his main political opponent, who has been charged with treason and terrorism, Blair’s spokesman said today in Malta.

Police and troops firing live and plastic bullets fought running battles today in Kampala, Uganda, with protesters angered by the arrest on treason charges of the president’s main political rival.

WHY are Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden considered by the Irish Government to be individuals of ill repute while the presidents of Uganda and Ethiopia are welcome visitors to our shores?

The Ugandan People’s Congress tonight announced that its leader, former president Milton Obote died at a South African hospital following a series of illnesses linked to old age.

The International Criminal Court has issued its first arrest warrants, for five members of Uganda’s notoriously cruel Lord’s Resistance Army.

Ugandans chose whether or not to allow multi-party politics in the East African country in a referendum today, the first step in reforming the country’s constitution, which forbids political parties from campaigning in elections.

THE Government is to withdraw €2 million in aid from Uganda over the failure of the country’s leadership to implement political reform.

UGANDA’S army overran the headquarters of a rebel group in a cross-border raid and killed at least 120 fighters, including possibly the group’s leader, a military spokesman said yesterday.

SCIENTISTS, activists and policymakers yesterday touted condoms as a trusted weapon in the fight against Aids, dismissing President George Bush’s policy of abstinence as a “serious setback” in global efforts to control the pandemic.