Kenya and Uganda have agreed to jointly police Migingo Island whose disputed ownership has threatened relations between the two countries. Commissioner of Police Mathew Iteere and Uganda’s Inspector ...

Kenyan and Ugandan police (in blue) manning Migingo Island located some miles deep in lake Victoria. Despite the island being a gazetted polling station,two clerks working for IEBC were on Tuesday ...

A rounded rocky outcrop covered with metallic shacks, Migingo Island rises out of the waters of Lake Victoria like an iron-plated turtle. The densely populated island is barely a quarter of a hectare ...

Nevertheless for over a decade Migingo has been a source of tension between Uganda and Kenya, who have been unable to decide to whom it really belongs. They were once pushed to the brink of what some ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan and Ugandan security forces will keep away from a one-acre island in Lake Victoria whose disputed ownership has caused a diplomatic row between the two east African nations, ...

The densely populated island is barely a quarter of a hectare large, its residents crammed into a hodge-podge of corrugated-iron homes. There's little else but a few bars, brothels and a tiny port.

Migingo Island (right) as it stands on Lake Victoria. President Museveni told an international news agency that the island “may be in Kenya, but the waters are in Uganda,” and referred to the Luo ...

BUGALA ISLAND, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mariam Nakakeeto listened quietly to the grievances of fellow farmers gathered outside the grounds of a local church on Bugala Island, by the ...