The Sudanese army on Monday denied reports that the feared leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebel group has found refuge in the western region of Darfur. "Joseph Kony is not in Darfur," Sudanese army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad told AFP. "And even if he had wanted to go, know that Darfur is not a favourable environment for ...

LONDON (Reuters) - An international team of scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one plant family to another, offering broader protection from potentially costly and destructive pests. A team led by Cyril Zipfel at Britain's Sainsbury Laboratory found that transferring a single gene from a wild plant to disease-susceptible crop plants made them more robust against infections like ...

A Ugandan parliamentary panel called Wednesday for a travel ban on cabinet members implicated in a massive corruption scandal during the 2007 Kampala Commonwealth summit. The Public Accounts Committee said top officials are evading the panel which is probing the disappearance of some 60 million dollars allocated for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). "We have summoned them and ...

Uganda will next month decide which international oil firm will carry out production and development of its nascent petroleum industry, an energy ministry official said Wednesday. Uganda is currently weighing rival bids from France's Total and the Chinese state-controlled giant CNOOC to take over assets in the oil-rich Lake Albert region. "Our expectation is that by April we will ...