ADJUMANI, Uganda – Under a searing midday sun, Olany Mario wipes his brow as he bends to water a bed of tiny green neem seedlings in the fertile soil of a tree nursery in Palabek refugee settlement, ...

Tobacco farming in Uganda has resulted in the loss of trees key to the diets of chimpanzees and baboons, increasing ...

Scientists are combing rain forests around the world for potential cures for cancer and other ailments, but the residents near Uganda’s last rain forests are are not waiting around for a multinational ...

Private investors plant trees next to government forests The timber meets demand previously filled by illegal loggers Cutting for firewood still a problem due to high power prices KALAGALA, Uganda, ...

From 16–19 September 2025, more than 40 stakeholders from government ministries, the National Forest Authority, NGOs, academia, development partners and UN agencies gathered in Jinja for a four-day ...

Uganda’s forest cover has declined drastically over the past three decades, shrinking from 24 per cent (approximately 4,898,335 hectares) in 1990 to the current 12.7 per cent, according to a report by ...

NAKIVALE, Uganda (AP) — Enock Twagirayesu was seeking sanctuary when he and his family fled violence in Burundi, and they found it in Uganda, the small East African nation that has absorbed thousands ...

A Wake Forest couple is moving to Africa to work for Embrace Uganda. The nonprofit organization identifies needs and provides support to families and orphaned children in Uganda. A Wake Forest couple ...

A new study on chimpanzees in Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire supports a theory that humans may have inherited a taste for alcohol from primate ancestors.