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Ugandan singer Faith Nassande is one of the choir members finally granted a visa to travel to Australia.

‘Jumping out of their skins’: Joy for African choir over visa backflip

An eleventh-hour change of heart from immigration officials gives the green light to Ugandan and Kenyan performers.

  • Nick Galvin

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Elon Musk played a key role in Donald Trump’s winning campaign and has been rewarded with an advisory role in the new administration.

I’ve seen the impact of Trump and Musk’s savagery. What they’re doing is cruel and lethal

As an aid leader, how do I tell my African friends that Trump’s Christianity isn’t for them, so babies will die?

  • Tim Costello
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
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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
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

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