Two buses and two other vehicles crashed early Wednesday on a highway in western Uganda, killing at least 46 people, police said, in one of the worst motor accidents in the East African country in recent years.

Uganda plans to borrow $2.34 billion from several lenders, including the World Bank, Standard Chartered and Citi, to finance infrastructure projects in energy and other sectors, according to a parliamentary document seen by Reuters.

Connie Frisbee Houde, left, board president, and Diane Reiner, founder of Jajja's Kids, provide a home, food, supervision and education to 20 former street kids from the slums of Kampala, Uganda.

In Bukedea, her home district in eastern Uganda, Speaker Anita Annet Among is greeted like royalty. The crowd parts as she steps out of a black convoy, the air filled with songs praising “Mama Speaker.

The World Bank will give Uganda over $2 billion in new financing in the next three financial years to fund economic development, a top ministry of finance official said on Tuesday. The global lender resumed loans to the east African country,

The Netherlands is preparing to send dozens of rejected asylum seekers to Uganda in a Trump-style deportation deal.

Displacement is tough, but friendly policies and an adaptable mindset have helped Sudanese refugees to rebuild