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Uganda launches first oil drilling programme

Hoima (Uganda) (AFP) - Uganda on Tuesday officially launched an oil drilling programme as it seeks to join the club of crude-producing nations with a mega-project that has incensed environmental groups.

AFP

Captain Karisa gives Uganda surprise CHAN win over Senegal

Algiers (AFP) - Forward Milton Karisa and goalkeeper Legason Alionzi were the toasts of Uganda after an upset 1-0 African Nations Championship (CHAN) win over Senegal on Wednesday in wet and chilly Algeria.

AFP

Uganda archbishop uses Bukayo Saka in prayers after Arsenal star teaches him two things

Bukayo Saka has starred for Arsenal this season, helping the Gunners to storm to the top of the Premier League, with the winger also speaking openly of his Christian faith

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IMF executive board approves $240 million disbursement to Uganda

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday its executive board approved two reviews of a financing agreement with Uganda that allow for the immediate release of about $240 million to the East African country.

Reuters

Groups to Biden: Drop prayer breakfast

Freedom From Religion Foundation rallies opposition to participation in right-wing evangelical networking event

Salon

Suspected Islamists kill at least 5 people in east Congo church bomb attack

At least five people were killed and 15 wounded in a suspected Islamist militant bomb attack during a Sunday service at a Protestant church in the eastern Congolese city of Kasindi, on the border with Uganda, the military said.

Reuters

Uganda drops Chinese firm from railway deal, eyes Turkish rival

Uganda has terminated its contract with a Chinese firm China Harbour and Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) to build a railway to the Kenyan border and is now considering a deal with a Turkish company, a senior official told Reuters on Friday.

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I have seen how top-down solutions condemn the world’s poorest to eternal poverty

A western-led approach has failed to remedy the problem. Maybe, post-pandemic, a new focus on the poor is needed, says activist Anthony Kalulu

The Guardian - UK

Uganda declares end to Ebola outbreak after new cases abate

Uganda declared an official end to its Ebola outbreak, easing fears that the deadly virus would spread beyond the country’s borders.

Tribune News Service

WHO, officials say Uganda's latest Ebola outbreak is over

Uganda’s latest outbreak of the Ebola virus is over

The Independent UK

Uganda declares end to deadly Ebola outbreak

Mubende (Uganda) (AFP) - Uganda on Wednesday declared an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged almost four months ago and claimed the lives of 55 people.

AFP

Uganda declares itself Ebola-free after swiftly turning tide on outbreak

Uganda on Wednesday declared the end of a nearly four-month Ebola outbreak that it briefly struggled to contain but was then able to swiftly bring under control despite the absence of a proven vaccine against the viral strain in question.

Reuters

Uganda court quashes part of law used against government critics

A court in Uganda on Tuesday quashed a section of a communications law that has been used to prosecute government critics, journalists and writers, including two who fled to exile in Germany, its judgment said.

Reuters

Uganda set to declare end of Ebola outbreak

Kampala (AFP) - Uganda said on Monday it was expecting to declare an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged late last year and has claimed the lives of at least 56 people.

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Radio France Internationale

Ebola outbreak in Uganda coming under control, says Africa health body

The CDC, Africa's top public health body, says that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda is coming under control with no new confirmed case reported in the country for the last 39 days. But it needs to pass 42 days to be considered Ebola-free.

Radio France Internationale

Children among at least ten dead in Uganda New Year crowd crush

At least ten people died, most aged between 10 and 20, in a shopping mall crush as revellers rang in the New Year in Uganda's capital, Kampala, according to local police.

The Independent UK

Boy, 10, among nine people killed in Ugandan New Year’s Eve fireworks crowd crush

Fatal incident occured at shopping centre in capital Kampala as people gathered to celebrate 2023

Reuters

Nine suffocate to death in Ugandan New Year firework crush - police

At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year's firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda's capital, police said.

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Uganda’s Appears To Have Defeated The World’s Latest Outbreak Of Ebola

Uganda Beats Ebola 2022

Daily Mirror

Polygamous dad with 102 children tells 12 wives to go on pill as he struggles to cope

Musa Hasahya, 67, who lives in Kenya with his nine wives, has now told them to on the pill as he struggles to cope with their enormous brood of 102 kids and 568 grandchildren

The Independent UK

An American couple moved to Uganda to become foster parents. They now could face death in child torture case

Nicholas Spencer, a former congressional staffer, and his wife Mackenzie, once a healthcare consultant, quit their jobs in DC in 2017 and moved to Uganda. Five years later, they are making international headlines for their arrest on child torture charges, Andrea Blanco reports

Al Jazeera

Q&A: Uganda’s Museveni on staying in power, rights abuses

The Museveni administration has repeatedly been accused of muzzling dissenting voices in the country since 1986.

The Independent UK

An American couple moved to Uganda to become foster parents. They now could face death in child torture case

AFP

More Ebola trial vaccines arrive in Uganda

Kampala (AFP) - Uganda announced Thursday that it had received shipments of two more trial vaccines to test against a strain of Ebola responsible for dozens of deaths in the East African nation.

Reuters

U.S. couple detained in Uganda gets fresh charge that carries death penalty

A U.S. couple detained in Uganda on charges of aggravated torture of a 10-year-old boy face an additional charge of aggravated child trafficking which carries the death penalty if they are convicted, the state prosecutor said on Wednesday.

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