Kotido, Uganda – Francis Losigaara thought cattle rustling would be a good way to make money. Getting a weapon and stealing livestock seemed easy enough, and would keep his family fed. But one by one ...

In the Karamoja region of north-eastern Uganda, a four-year outbreak of violent raids on livestock is finally subsiding—the result of a ruthless, informant-driven disarmament campaign by the army. But ...

Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) have seized five Kenyan herders and impounded more than 500 head of cattle on the Uganda-Kenyan border. The herders from Oropoi in Turkana West were arrested ...

Guns and other weapons used by armed Karimojong cattle raiders to terrorise their communities and neighbouring districts while raiding livestock have been traced to South Sudan and Kenya. Karamoja sub ...

Wildlife authorities found 11 lions dead from suspected poisoning in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, in the southwest of of the country, on April 10. The dead lions, eight of them cubs and the ...

In bad years, when the rains fail and the sorghum wilts, Maria Lodia would usually sell an animal to survive. But in January gun-wielding thieves stole her three cows, leaving her destitute. Since ...