During heavy rains, village elders told schoolchildren to seek shelter in the hospital. That sanctuary turned into a death trap as a landslide engulfed the building, leaving more than 50 pupils missing and among hundreds feared dead as avalanches of mud slammed into three villages. When Beatrice Nabuduwa's 12-year-old daughter failed to come home after school Monday, the mother ...

Uganda has not yet done enough to ensure that its 2011 general elections will be free and fair, the European Union?s ambassador to the east African nation told AFP Wednesday. "I am worried that legislatively speaking, the level playing field is not established," Vincent De Visscher said. President Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, is widely expected to seek ...