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 - The Ugandan army said Tuesday that it rescued nearly 120 civilians from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) when it stormed the rebel group's camps in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo over the weekend.

A total of 119 people, mostly women and children, were rescued in the joint operation carried out by Ugandan, Congolese and Sudanese forces against the LRA, Major Felix Kulayigye told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Kampala - The deputy leader of Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), who is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), is preparing to give himself up, newspaper reports said Thursday.

Okot Odhiambo is in negotiations to give himself up to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in return for amnesty, government-owned newspaper The New Vision reported.

Kampala  - Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army killed hundreds of civilians in attacks - including the burning of a church - in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the weekend, a Ugandan government newspaper reported Monday.

The New Vision newspaper said the LRA, which has been fighting a guerrilla war for over two decades, attacked the villages of Tola and Libombi in north-east DR Congo, indiscriminately burning and hacking people to death.

Kampala  - Ugandan rebels the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killed eight civilians as they retreated from a failed attack on the offices of a game park in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugandan officials said Tuesday.

The LRA is believed to have killed around 500 civilians in the region in recent weeks in an apparent response to a military offensive by Uganda, DR Congo and South Sudan.