The truth about Migingo is simpler than most of us think. The plain truth is just as Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni once said that, “Migingo Island is in Kenya, but the water is in Uganda". And ...

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 ...

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, ...

When Blue Point resident Melissa Fricke was graduating from college, she called home one day to tell her parents what she planned to do next. They were expecting graduate school. Instead, she told ...

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 ...

President Yoweri Museveni, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) presidential candidate, has made significant pledges for the development of Buvuma Island, including the establishment of a second ...

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 ...

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.