Rwanda's closure of the Katuna border with Uganda – the busiest crossing – curtailed trade between the two countries in early 2019. The crossings stayed closed despite ...

President Yoweri Museveni's government may have seen a chance to curry favour with the United States by quickly agreeing to take in 2,000 refugees fleeing Afghanistan after the Tal...

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says that his meeting with Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto last week was simply a gathering of neighbouring leaders. But to State House wat...

Budget day on 10 June in East Africa meant 'borrowing', as the region's three biggest economies unveiled their tax and spending plans for the coming fiscal year. All are planning t...

Ugandan troops have re–entered Congo-Kinshasa, officially at least, for the first time since the UN and African Union-brokered truce in 2002 that led to the formal exit of fo...