Kampala  - Eleven people died Monday when a Russian-made cargo plane carrying supplies for the African Union (AU) peace keeping mission in Somalia, burst into flames and clashed into Lake Victoria soon after take-off from Uganda's Entebbe international airport, a government statement said.

Kampala  - Leaders of a Ugandan district along the crocodile- infested shores of Lake Victoria have ordered the cull of all the area's reptiles, after 20 people were killed in 2008 and another seven killed since the beginning of 2009, government-sponsored radio said Sunday.

Kampala -Anti-gay activists in Uganda Saturday formed a pressure group to discourage homosexuality, follow

Kampala  - Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and his DR Congo counterpart Joseph Kabila met Wednesday in a western border town to review the on-going joint military operations against Ugandan rebels in the north-east of the Congo, a senior minister has confirmed.

Kampala - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is suing a Kampala tabloid after it alleged he is having an affair with a Queen Mother of a Ugandan kingdom, the newspaper's editor said Saturday.

Gaddafi's lawyers have filed a suit totalling 1 billion dollars againts the editors of The Red Pepper over the paper's reports that he is in love with Tooro Kingdom's Queen Mother Best Kemigisha, editor Ben Byaraba told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Kampala  - Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday said that the massacre of up to 900 civilians by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo was a sacrifice for future peace in their country.

"Sacrifices are paid by people in bad situations," Museveni told a press conference. "You can talk of 900 people who died but how about those who died due to the high infant mortality rate in the area when the LRA was there?"