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Uganda News API

Get the live top headlines from Uganda with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Uganda News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Uganda.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ug&category=general&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 15192,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "31ebe8e9b0e7f0e58250a89d039c361b",
            "title": "Rocky planet discovered in outer orbit challenges planet formation theory",
            "description": "Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky planets close in and gas giants farther out — the same pattern seen in our own Solar System and hundreds of others. And at first, that’s exactly what they saw. But new observations revealed a surprise: the outermost planet appears to be rocky, not gaseous.",
            "content": "In most planetary systems observed across the Milky Way, scientists see the same basic layout. Small, rocky planets circle close to their star, while large gas giants orbit at greater distances. Our own Solar System fits this pattern. The inner plane... [3883 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260213223857.htm",
            "image": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/1920/lhs-1903-planetary-system.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-14T06:53:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "81a05fd2712964dbdb32b1c6a27646fd",
                "name": "ScienceDaily",
                "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fe2dfb02cfd33325e1938f3d5391573d",
            "title": "What I’ve learned after a month of avoiding my phone",
            "description": "I’ve read nine books, written every day and learnt how to use a sewing machine. It’s not that I have more time, but I am in command of where it goes",
            "content": "I assumed my month of avoiding all non-essential technology would come to an end, and I would have a list of the things I missed or the opportunities that passed me by.\nThat list does not exist.\nInstead, I have a handwritten record of every day of th... [10192 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/02/14/what-ive-learned-after-a-month-of-avoiding-my-phone/",
            "image": "https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/LL7TV7EPYZHR5HLLVVUBBTD7LM.JPG?smart=true&auth=4631f2b9fe0957fcb68e16b9ea71ab031506a93955ff59afedb71b16d144ca9d&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-14T06:00:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "735252dcb2793bb57ad34b2a2b258f27",
                "name": "The Irish Times",
                "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "050234acec8f65d27aa71d109a8bdc1d",
            "title": "KIKUUBE: 1,500 teenage mothers get chance to return to school",
            "description": "Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 1,500 teenage mothers in Kikuube District now have a renewed opportunity to return to school following a four-year education initiative launched by the district education department with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The programme aims to reintegrate adolescent mothers who dropped out of secondary school …",
            "content": "Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 1,500 teenage mothers in Kikuube District now have a renewed opportunity to return to school following a four-year education initiative launched by the district education department with support from the U... [4061 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.independent.co.ug/kikuube-1500-teenage-mothers-get-chance-to-return-to-school/",
            "image": "https://www.independent.co.ug/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/TEENAGE.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-14T05:00:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8e89ecf020070e53fb2c044c95720832",
                "name": "The Independent Uganda",
                "url": "https://www.independent.co.ug"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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