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Uganda says it won’t renew mandate of UN human rights office

February 8, 2023

In this file photo taken on Nov 19, 2020, street traders sell mangos and other fruit before being told by security forces to pack up and leave, on a street in Kampala, Uganda. (PHOTO / AP) KAMPALA - Uganda has said it will not renew the mandate of the United...

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Africa CDC: Uganda’s Ebola outbreak coming under control

January 6, 2023

Members of Doctors Without Borders NGO set up an Ebola treatment isolation unit at the Mubende regional referral hospital in Uganda on Sept 24, 2022. (BADRU KATUMBA / AFP) Africa's top public health body said on Thursday that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda was coming under control, as it had...

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Uganda’s president extends Ebola epicenter’s quarantine for 21 days

November 27, 2022

Doctors walk inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda, Sept 29, 2022. (HAJARAH NALWADDA / AP) KAMPALA - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicenter of the country's Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that...

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Official: Uganda recording downward trend in Ebola cases

November 25, 2022

Members of the Ugandan Medical staff of the Ebola Treatment Unit stand inside the ward in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda on Sept 24, 2022. (BADRU KATUMBA / AFP) KAMPALA - Uganda has recorded a drop in the number of new Ebola cases, with...

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WHO chief says Ebola spread in Uganda a matter of concern

October 28, 2022

Doctors walk inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda, Sept 29, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria. (HAJARAH...

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Hundreds of Congolese flee to Uganda after fresh fighting

October 24, 2022

Asylum Seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are guided to wait on a truck after crossing a border to be transferred in Bunagana, Uganda, on June 7, 2022. (BADRU KATUMBA / AFP) KAMPALA - Fresh fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has forced hundreds of people...

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First health worker killed in latest Ebola outbreak in Uganda

October 2, 2022

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World Court to rule on Congo’s claim of over $11b from Uganda

February 10, 2022

This aerial photograph taken on Dec 17, 2021 shows the city of Bunia, provincial capital of Ituri in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP) THE HAGUE - The International Court of Justice will decide on Wednesday if Uganda should pay over $11 billion in reparations to the...

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Rwanda to re-open border with Uganda as relations thaw

January 29, 2022

In this file photo taken on May 28, 2021, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame speaks during an interview with international media at the presidency office in Kigali. (SIMON WOHLFAHRT / AFP) KIGALI - Rwanda will re-open on Monday a border crossing with Uganda that was shuttered nearly three years ago, even as...

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Uganda, DRC launch joint attacks against Islamist militia

December 1, 2021

In this file photo dated July 1, 2021, a general view of a burnt house in Rwangoma, Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo after ten people were killed in an attack overnight by suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces Islamist militia. (SEBASTIEN KITSA MUSAYI / AFP) BENI, Democratic Republic of...

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Report: Twin blasts in Uganda capital kill two, injure ‘scores’

November 17, 2021

In this file photo taken on Oct 26, 2021, people are checked by a security as police officers sensitize people on how to be vigilant to report any suspicious material to police at a bus terminal in Kampala after recent two bombing incidents. (BARDU KATUMBA / AFP) KAMPALA - Two...