Popular Ugandan child rapper Fresh Kid has started his first day at his new school, according to the privately owned television station NTV Uganda. The station showed pictures of the seven year old, whose real name is Patrick Ssenyonjo, entering the compound of Kampala Parents’ School, accompanied by his father and others. Fresh Kid, a former pupil of St Agnes …

An American woman and her driver have been kidnapped at Uganda’s most popular wildlife park by gunmen demanding a ransom of $500,000, police said on Wednesday. Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35, and Ugandan driver Jean Paul were on a game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park when four gunmen ambushed their vehicle on Tuesday evening, a police statement said. Various illegal …

The Ugandan authorities say an American tourist and a Ugandan driver have been kidnapped by gunmen in one of the country’s most popular national parks. The government says four armed men staged an ambush on Tuesday in Queen Elizabeth National Park, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo where many rebel groups are active. It says four …

A Ugandan man, who was only six years old when his father lost his land in a legal dispute, has finally won it back 23 years later, after becoming a lawyer. Jordan Kinyera went through 18 years of education and legal training before taking on the case. On Monday, the High Court delivered a final judgement which ruled in his …