LONDON - British oil exploration company Heritage Oil PLC said Monday it has agreed to sell its stakes in two Ugandan fields to Italy's Eni SpA for up to $1.5 billion. Heritage said it had signed a binding letter of intent to sell its 50 percent sha
Heritage, the UK-listed oil company, has agreed to sell its Ugandan oil fields to Eni, the Italian energy group, in a deal worth about $1.3bn.The deal is a potential blow to Tullow, the fellow UK-listed oil company. Eni had been widely expected to b
KAMPALA, Uganda - A Ugandan government official says the bodies of those who die because of drinking a local illicit gin should be caned six times before burial as an example to the living. Edwin Komakech spoke Saturday at a security meeting in the
Two schoolgirls have gone into labour during exams, given birth and then continued to sit their tests in the afternoon, shocking many in Uganda.The BBC's Joshua Mmali in Uganda says some have been impressed by the determination of the teenage girls.
KASESE, Uganda - For years, Charles Wesley Mumbere worked as a nurse's aide in Maryland and Pennsylvania, caring for the elderly and sick. No one there suspected that he had inherited a royal title in his African homeland when he was just 13. On Mon
KHARTOUM, Sudan - A Sudanese government official says two foreign aid workers held hostage for more than three months in the Darfur region have been released by their captors. Sudan's state minister for humanitarian affairs, Abdel-Baqi al-Jailani, s
Uganda League champions URA have blocked Patrick Ochan from moving to St. George unless the Ethiopians pay $30,000 (around Shs60m).Ochan, who is being pursued by former Villa coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic, admitted that the clubs are in talks to
Italian football giants Inter will in future tap junior talent from St. Joseph Mixed Primary School, Naggalama, after initiating a partnership with them.The relationship with the school was secured when Inter sponsored the school team to travel to t
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