Dar es Salaam. When the crackling sounds of records by Franco Luambo and Tabu Ley Rochereau first reached East Africa’s coastlines in the 1950s, they carried more than melodies—they ushered in a ...

Jacob, and his brother Tibu, made history when they swam two-thirds of a mile across a “predator-infested” river in Uganda. Griffith University Jacob, a 10-year-old lion living in Uganda’s ...

Since the 1960s, Uganda’s climate has warmed by an average of 1.3°C (2.3°F). The warming is partly responsible for an increasing number of catastrophic floods on the Nyamwamba River ...

Elgon gave to one of the new cities in eastern Uganda. As River Nabuyonga flows through urban areas, including Mbale, it is becoming clogged because of the careless disposing of plastics.

The Nile River flows from Lake Victoria in Uganda, from where the source of the Nile is located. But, by a quirk of British colonial history, only Egypt and its neighbor, Sudan, have all rights to ...

Uganda’s Nyamwamba river, in the Rwenzori Mountains, has begun to flood catastrophically in recent years, partly due to climate change. Along the river are copper tailings pools from an old ...

Onlookers watch as people search for flood victims at the Nabuyonga River in Uganda on Tuesday (AFP via Getty Images) The floods come after an extensive drought has plagued parts of the country.