Entertainment

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan student who played a memorable role in a 2016 Disney film about a local chess prodigy has died at the age of 15. Nikita Pearl Waligwa died on Saturday at a hospital near the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The cause was a brain tumor, according to the girls’ secondary school […]

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Country singer Thomas Rhett, 28, shared an adorable photo of himself with his 3-year-old, Willa Gray, whom he and his wife Lauren Akins adopted from Uganda in May 2017. “Just a little night cap,” he wrote earlier this month alongside the shot of them cuddled together while wearing matching polka-dot bonnets. Black folks across social media seem to be […]

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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Kanye West has met with Uganda’s president during a visit to the East African nation and given the 74-year-old leader a pair of white sneakers. President Yoweri Museveni says he and the American rapper held “fruitful discussions” about promoting tourism and arts. West and his wife, reality TV star Kim Kardashian […]

News

An American Pastor was filmed physically assaulting a hostel worker in Uganda, and many across social media are wondering, “Gee… I wonder where he was radicalized?” Ugandan police have arrested racist Jesus freak Jimmy L. Taylor from Florence, AZ after a Facebook video surfaced showing him physically assaulting employees at the Grand Imperial Hotel in the capital city of […]

National News

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan nanny on Monday pleaded guilty to charges of torturing a child who was under her care in a case that shocked Ugandans and sparked debate about the role of maids in raising children in this East African country. The nanny, 22-year-old Jolly Tumuhiirwe, was convicted Monday although her lawyer […]

Life & Style

Sseko, an American fashion accessory brand is empowering the women of Uganda with employment and college education, the New York Daily News reports. SEE ALSO:…

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If you think the United States gay laws are bad, just wait until you hear what’s going on in Uganda.  Listen to the audio player to hear “The Russ Parr Morning Show” list the crazy gay laws passed in the country that could get you life in prison. Keep Up With The Russ Parr Morning […]

A spokeswoman for Uganda’s parliament says lawmakers have passed a long-shelved law that punishes “aggravated homosexuality” with life imprisonment. The new law does not have the death penalty, which was in the draft legislation when it was first introduced in Uganda’s parliament in 2010.Homosexuality had been illegal in Uganda, but it was argued that a […]