News from Uganda
4,270 news articles from publishers in Uganda, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.pulse.ug with 1,012 articles, 23.7% of the total, followed by www.goal.com, www.independent.co.ug. By language it splits into English (4,270). Daily volume averages about 69 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 92 on 2026-09-02.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=UG&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=UG&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Uganda articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=UG&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T14:56 | Miss Tourism Uganda honours King Oyo as Ankole’s Filfat Mucureezi takes 2026 crown | www.pulse.ug |
2026-09-07T13:57 | Men who stole woman's phone during King Saha concert arrested | www.pulse.ug |
2026-09-07T13:44 | Uganda International Fashion Week grand finale runway climaxes with jaw-dropping fashion showca | www.pulse.ug |
2026-09-07T13:40 | Rugumayo ends Uganda’s 12-year wait for Uganda Open title | www.pulse.ug |
2026-09-07T12:07 | Preparations in high gear for Museveni 82nd birthday celebrations | www.pulse.ug |
2026-09-07T12:02 | He Is Performing Way Better Than Most MPs!! Bamutakudde Village LC Chairman Solomon Serwanjja S | tndnewsuganda.com |
2026-09-07T11:36 | Endangered species: Experts warn of high suicide rate among Ugandan men | www.pulse.ug |
2026-09-07T11:27 | URA Relocates Real Estate Tax Office to Sudhir’s RR Pearl Tower | www.spyuganda.com |
Who publishes it
The 16 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.pulse.ug | 1,012 | 23.7% | query |
www.goal.com | 954 | 22.3% | query |
www.independent.co.ug | 885 | 20.7% | query |
eagle.co.ug | 343 | 8.0% | query |
www.watchdoguganda.com | 328 | 7.7% | query |
kawowo.com | 175 | 4.1% | query |
redpepper.co.ug | 102 | 2.4% | query |
www.spyuganda.com | 74 | 1.7% | query |
thetouchlinesports.com | 73 | 1.7% | query |
theswiftnews.com | 71 | 1.7% | query |
tndnewsuganda.com | 70 | 1.6% | query |
peterospaths.org | 53 | 1.2% | query |
celebpatrol.ug | 50 | 1.2% | query |
ugandaupdatenews.com | 50 | 1.2% | query |
www.kfm.co.ug | 29 | 0.7% | query |
dailyexclusives.co.ug | 1 | 0.0% | query |
Languages published in Uganda
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| en | English | 4,270 | 100.0% |
Domain zones used by Uganda publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 33 | |
2026-09-06 | 59 | |
2026-09-05 | 57 | |
2026-09-04 | 91 | |
2026-09-03 | 81 | |
2026-09-02 | 92 | |
2026-09-01 | 82 | |
2026-08-31 | 60 | |
2026-08-30 | 50 | |
2026-08-29 | 70 | |
2026-08-28 | 58 | |
2026-08-27 | 91 | |
2026-08-26 | 71 | |
2026-08-25 | 70 |
Combine with other filters
# Uganda, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=UG&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Uganda, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=UG&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Uganda, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=UG&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"