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Rebecca Cheptegei, competes at the Discovery 10km road race in Kapchorwa, Uganda, last year.

Olympic marathon runner dies after being set on fire by boyfriend

Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, had sustained burns to 80 per cent of her body.

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From tinsel-free towns to white Christmas: Top places to go in December

The experience of a winter Christmas entices many overseas at this time of year, but you’ll find plenty of other reasons to travel in December.

  • Brian Johnston
A central dining and lounge area wraps around a chequerboard-bottomed pool.

This sensory hotel embodies its nation’s style and warm spirit

The sprawling stay in Uganda’s capital contains art and culture etched within luxury walls.

  • Catherine Marshall
A man is seen during the third Annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride celebrations in Entebbe, Uganda, in 2014. Things have gotten worse for LGBT citizens since.

‘People are freaking out’: Ugandan arrested on anti-gay charge punishable by death

In the conservative, mostly Christian country, many religious leaders and politicians have painted same-sex relations as a Western import.

  • Emma Bubola
A silverback and family from the Mubare group of gorillas in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

How gorilla tourism became a conservation success story

It’s not hard to see why the great apes have become a chief economic resource in Uganda. But challenges remain for the wildlife and communities that depend on visitors.

  • Catherine Marshall
Security forces drive past a crowd of people gathered outside the Lhubiriha Secondary School following an attack on the school near the border with Congo, in Mpondwe, Uganda.

Dozens killed at school, sending shockwaves through peaceful Uganda

The rebel forces suspected of the attack have been accused of targeting civilians in remote locations.

  • Rodney Muhumuza
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The rare black leopard of Laikipia.

Spotting the rare black leopard in Kenya

Trailing a headline-making cat, Uganda’s chimps, Botswana’s wildlife jackpot: Africa’s travel hits from Good Weekend’s 2023 Dream Destinations issue.

  • Ute Junker and Catherine Marshall
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signs the anti-LGBT law.

Uganda enacts law imposing death penalty for LGBTQ ‘serial offenders’

The 78-year-old President Yoweri Museveni has called homosexuality a “deviation from normal” and urged lawmakers to resist “imperialist” pressure.

  • Rachel Savage
Doctors wearing protective equipment pray together before they visit a patient who was in contact with an Ebola victim in Entebbe, Uganda, in October.

Uganda’s worst Ebola outbreak in two decades is over: WHO

The deadly outbreak had spread to nine districts, including the capital, Kampala, raising fears of its snowballing across the East African region.

  • Abdi Latif Dahir
Hippos kill an estimated 500 people every year.

Toddler survives being partially swallowed by a hippo

The highly unusual land attack was stopped when a bystander began throwing stones at the hippo, eventually scaring it enough to spit the young boy out.

  • Amber Ferguson

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