Uganda

Scott Lively and Christian Abiding Truth Ministries named in court action for inciting hatred of gays.

The screening of an immensely popular Internet video calling for the arrest of rebel chief Joseph Kony has been stopped in Uganda after people started throwing stones at its first showing.

Campaign to bring Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony to justice moves up a gear.

Tullow Oil, the independent oil and gas company, expects significant progress in Ghana and Uganda for the FY 2012 and is scheduled to report its full year 2011 results on Wednesday.

Kony 2012 film by NGO Invisible Children has created a buzz and divided opinion on the internet.

NGO Invisible Children's Kony 2012 campaign faces backlash amid accusations of misinformation and lack of transparency.

Hard-hitting film of LRA warlord Joseph Kony's war crimes goes viral, piling up 30 million hits in 48 hours.

Campaign takes internet by storm to raise awareness about Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army leader, who has forced 66,000 children into becoming soldiers.

Petition circulating aginast bill has acquired 160,000 names since its launch a few days ago.

Security firm recruited 147 women to work in shops and then forced them into slavery.

Gay crackdown continues as activists' workshop disrupted, delegates sent home and leader arrested.

Women who refuse to undergo Female Genital Mutilation are forcibly cut by traditional leaders in certain parts of Uganda.

An US-based Christian evangelical organisation has actively lobbied for the re-introduction of the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda, which was presented in the parliament Tuesday, according to local activists.

One year after killing of Ugandan gay activist David Kato, Africa still a long way from recognition of LGBT rights.

For the second time this week, Congo's authorities have postponed announcing the results of the country's presidential election amid rising tension in the central African state.

Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab has taken its war against the Somali government and Kenyan troops to the next level by setting up a Twitter account.

The results of Democratic Republic of Congo's presidential election have been delayed amid fears that new violence could erupt in the country.

A leading Rwandan journalist and editor was gunned down in Kampala, where he was living as a political refuge.

Nigeria's Senate voted Tuesday to criminalise gay marriage, instituting prison terms of more than ten years in cases of violations, prompting fears that discrimination towards gay people is growing despite international calls for more rights.

David Cameron's threat to cut aid funding to countries that do not respect gay rights has been met with hostility by some African nations, who have accused the British Prime Minister of showing a "bullying mentality."

A man who confessed to murdering Ugandan gay activist David Kato has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

It's official! If there is one 'best' place in the world where you should be in 2012, it is London for all reasons. Influential travel guide publisher Lonely Planet has named London the "best city" in the world to visit in 2012.

London has been named the top city in the world to visit next year in the seventh annual ‘Lonely Planet Best in Travel guide.

Al-Shabab Militants detonated a car bomb in Somalia Tuesday in front of the education ministry in Mogadishu, killing at least 70 people and wounding dozens, according to officials, killing said. Among the dead were students and parents.

In a recent report, 43 percent of the sexually active teenagers in Britain, aged between 16 and 19, have confessed to unsafe sex without adequate protection with new partners. This is far more than 36 percent of teenagers who responded the same way in 2009.

Researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that women who are in command at home are likely to have less sex.

Poor farmers worldwide are being displaced and left destitute by land takeovers, a study by Oxfam warns.

As scientists still work on tracing back our origins, a group of scientists working in Uganda have returned to Paris with a new addition to the primates' family picture.

The Somali president issued an urgent appeal for international aid as his drought-stricken country faces a famine that has left half of the population in dire need."The situation is very severe. The conditions are very harsh," President Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed told CNN Wednesday during an exclusive interview at his residence in Mogadishu.

The United Nations declared today that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool, and Lower Shabelle," a statement by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Somalia said.