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The family of a promising Ugandan activist who was thought to be the “future Oprah” is gearing up to sue the US National Park Service for what is believed to be more than $270 million after she was decapitated in a freak accident in Utah’s Arches National Park, Yahoo! News reports. Human rights activist Esther Nakajjigo, 25, saw her promise as a future Oprah extinguished when on June 13, 2020, she died in the park after a traffic control gate slammed into her rental car. Strong winds apparently blew a metal pole from an unlatched gate into the car and...

The fatal police shooting of a Ugandan refugee who drew something from his pocket and extended his hands in a "shooting stance" happened about a minute after officers in a San Diego suburb arrived at the scene where a mentally unstable man was reportedly walking in traffic, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

Migingo island is a small rocky outcrop in the middle of Lake Victoria that's causing big trouble between two African nations. While the island is marked on maps and official documents as belonging to Kenya; the Ugandan government claims that Migingo Island is in Ugandan waters and that it is therefore illegal for Kenyans to fish there. The rich fishing ground has attracted fishermen from both Kenya and Uganda, three hours and six hours away respectively.

When Bill Clinton held a Ugandan newborn in his arms during a trip to East Africa in 1998, the mother decided to name him after the president. Now 14 and hoping to become a surgeon, Bill Clinton Kaligani — who considers the ex-president his “dad” — was overjoyed when he was reunited with his namesake.

NOTE The following text is a quote: Virginia Man Accused of Providing Material Support to Terrorists ALEXANDRIA, VA—Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, of Fairfax County, Va., was arrested today on charges that he provided material support to al Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Neil H. MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Shawn Henry, Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC) of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, made the announcement after Chesser was arrested and the charging documents were made public. “This case exposes the disturbing reality that extreme radicalization can happen anywhere, including Northern Virginia,” said U.S. Attorney...

Ugandan rebels shoot 60 mourners dead inside Sudan April 28, 2002, 09:43 PM KAMPALA (AFP) - Up to 60 mourners have been shot dead in southern Sudan by suspected Ugandan rebels who forced them to eat a dead body they were about to bury, the Ugandan army charged. Army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza told AFP that the attack took place Friday on the ranges of mountain Agoro, which straddles the Uganda, Sudan border. "The LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) attacked them as they were about to bury a person," Bantariza said, adding that Ugandan forces battling the rebels in the area...