Mahmood Mamdani, father of Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, locked an LGBTQ activist and professor at a university in Uganda

The World Bank will give Uganda over $2 billion in new financing in the next three financial years to fund economic development, a top ministry of finance official said on Tuesday. The global lender resumed loans to the east African country,

Barely three months before campaigns began, President Yoweri Museveni has disbursed an estimated $20m nationwide in a pre-election giveaway targeting specific groups.

Uganda's electoral commission on Tuesday gave January 15 as the date for the country's general election, at which octogenarian President Yoweri Museveni will seek to extend his rule to nearly half a century.

Connie Frisbee Houde, left, board president, and Diane Reiner, founder of Jajja's Kids, provide a home, food, supervision and education to 20 former street kids from the slums of Kampala, Uganda.