BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 19 (Reuters) – Twenty-six more suspected Ebola deaths were recorded in 24 hours in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said on Tuesday, and the head of the World Health Organization expressed deep concern … Read More
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The World Bank said it will not consider new loans to Uganda after the East African country earlier this year enacted an anti-gay bill that rights groups and others have condemned. The World Bank had deployed a team to Uganda … Read More
Ugandan police said Monday that 20 people had been arrested for suspected collaboration with the notorious militia group blamed for last week’s grisly attack on a school near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo. “Twenty arrests have been made … Read More
LONDON (Reuters) – The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the Anglican Church of Uganda to reject the country’s new anti-LGBT law, saying there is no justification for Anglicans anywhere to support legislation that goes against the Christian teachings of the … Read More
KAMPALA, March 21 (Reuters) – Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday passed a law that criminalises identifying as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence. More than 30 African countries, including Uganda, already … Read More
“This is the first such kind of incident where a hippo strayed out of the Lake Edward and attacked a young child,” the Uganda Police Force said in a statement A 2-year-old boy in Uganda survived a hippo attack after … Read More
KAMPALA, Oct 21 (Reuters) – An Ebola outbreak in Uganda that has infected 65 people and killed 27 is coming under control and should be over by the end of the year, the country’s information ministry said on Friday. Africa’s … Read More
KAMPALA, Uganda — An internal inquiry says the United Nations refugee agency has misspent millions of dollars on Africa’s largest refugee crisis, including paying for what became a parking lot at the Ugandan prime minister’s office. The report by the … Read More
THE devastating Zika virus could spread to Europe and pose a massive challenge to public health officials, an expert in communicable diseases has warned. Professor Ron Behrens, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has said the world … Read More
Nine-year-old died in central Uganda with symptoms of an eye-bleeding disease which could kill up to 40 per cent of those infected by it. The outbreak comes months after hundreds of people were killed by the plague in Madagascar in … Read More