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Ebola deaths in eastern Congo rise to 131, WHO voices deep concern

Erikas Mwisi and Emma Farge | Reuters — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:31:15 +0000

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 about the outbreak’s spread.

The new deaths brought to 131 the fatalities associated with the outbreak in ‌eastern DRC. There have been 543 suspected cases and 33 confirmed cases in DRC, according to Congolese health authorities, and two confirmed cases in neighbouring Uganda.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/ebola-deaths-eastern-congo-rise-131-outbreak-spreads-2026-05-19/?fbclid=IwY2xjawR9tvZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe60swnz3oBjCxQhcvTYFTCkEP1TWDj59P7OodZmIbLRgsbS-hSOp4LRPmNYs_aem_19s-nzu4b6vVbc36lA-UYg

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World Bank says no new funding to Uganda over anti-gay law

Rodney Muhumuza | AP News — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 19:34:31 +0000

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 after the law was enacted in May and determined that additional measures were necessary to ensure projects align with the bank’s environmental and social standards.

“No new public financing to Uganda will be presented to our Board of Executive Directors until the efficacy of the additional measures has been tested,” the World Bank Group said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Source: https://apnews.com/article/uganda-world-bank-lgbtq-rights-funding-halted-d672264895775d44aee1bb63e7f072d0

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Uganda Arrests 20 ‘Collaborators’ Over Horrific School Massacre

Grace Matsiko | AFP — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 03:07:32 +0000

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 of suspected collaborators, suspected ADF collaborators,” police spokesman Fred Enanga told a press conference, referring to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) based in the DRC.

He said in a separate statement that those arrested included the head teacher and the director of the Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe, western Uganda, that came under attack late on Friday.

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Source: https://www.barrons.com/news/uganda-arrests-three-over-horrific-school-massacre-90413362

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Archbishop of Canterbury Urges Ugandan Anglicans to Reject Anti-Gay Law

Reuters — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 22:35:24 +0000

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 Gospel.

Under the law, approved by President Yoweri Museveni in May, gay sex is punishable by life in prison while “aggravated homosexuality”, including transmitting HIV, attracts the death penalty.

Justin Welby, leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, said he had written to Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba, the Primate of Uganda, to express “grief and dismay” at the church’s stance.

“There is no justification for any province of the Anglican Communion to support such laws: not in our resolutions, not in our teachings, and not in the Gospel we share,” Welby said in a statement on Friday.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/archbishop-canterbury-urges-ugandan-anglicans-reject-anti-gay-law-2023-06-09/

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Uganda passes bill banning identifying as LGBTQ

Reuters — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:10:49 +0000

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 ban same-sex relations. The new law appears to be the first to outlaw merely identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ), according to rights group Human Rights Watch.

Supporters of the new law say it is needed to punish a broader array of LGBTQ activities, which they say threaten traditional values in the conservative and religious East African nation.

In addition to same-sex intercourse, the law bans promoting and abetting homosexuality as well as conspiracy to engage in homosexuality.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/uganda-passes-bill-banning-identifying-lgbtq-2023-03-21/

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2-Year-Old Boy Rescued After Hippo Swallowed ‘Half of His Body,’ Police Say

Melissa Montoya | People — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:18:52 +0000

“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 almost being swallowed whole.

On the afternoon of Dec. 4, the boy, identified by authorities as Iga Paul, was playing near his home when a hippo grabbed him and “swallowed half of his body” before spitting him out, a spokesperson for the Uganda Police Force said in a statement.

Fortunately, a witness was able to throw stones at the animal to get it to relinquish the hold it had on the child.

“It took the bravery of a one Chrispas Bagonza, who was nearby, to save the victim after he stoned the hippo and scared it, causing it to release the victim from its mouth,” police said.

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Source: https://people.com/human-interest/2-year-old-boy-rescued-hippo-swallowed-half-of-his-body-police-say/

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Uganda says Ebola outbreak should be over by year-end

Elias Biryabarema | Reuters — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:48:02 +0000

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 top public health body said on Thursday there was a risk the outbreak, which was declared a month ago, could spread but that it was manageable.

The government has introduced a three-week lockdown around the epicentre of the outbreak of the Sudan variant of the Ebola virus in central Uganda. The measuresinclude an overnight curfew, restrictions on movement and the closure of places of worship and entertainment.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/uganda-says-ebola-outbreak-should-be-over-by-year-end-2022-10-21/

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UN says millions misspent on Africa’s biggest refugee crisis

AP via City News — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 02:34:10 +0000

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 U.N.’s internal watchdog says about $11 million alone is being spent on a recount of the South Sudanese who poured into Uganda, to weed out potentially hundreds of thousands of “ghost refugees.”

More than a million South Sudanese fled to neighbouring Uganda after fresh fighting broke out in July 2016, causing a scramble by the U.N. and other humanitarian actors to help them find food and shelter.

Uganda has been praised internationally for welcoming refugees but has faced scrutiny over corruption in the refugee process.

U.N. refugee and Ugandan spokespeople did not comment.

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Source: https://www.citynews1130.com/2018/11/29/un-says-millions-misspent-on-africas-biggest-refugee-crisis/

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Zika virus ‘could well’ spread to southern Europe, expert warns

Ciaran McGrath — Thu, 10 May 2018 19:44:25 +0000

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 needs to be prepared to cope with outbreaks of Zika, Ebola and other deadly viruses as they migrate around our increasingly connected world.

The Zika virus can spread from pregnant women to their unborn children and can cause a condition called microcephaly.

Microcephaly is a rare nervous system disorder which causes a baby’s head to be small and not fully developed and, as a result, significant brain damage.

Zika is mild and only around one in five people experience symptoms. Although it can be particularly dangerous for pregnant women, for most people Zika is a mild disease.

Zika was first identified in the African country of Uganda, where it is transmitted to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito (Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus). These are the same mosquitoes that spread dengue and chikungunya viruses.

This is known as transmission by vector, whereby diseases are spread by insects and other arthropods.

Zika is usually spread by mosquitoes – although it can also be transmitted via sexual contact.

However, it is believed to have spread to other continents as a result of infected humans travelling there, after which it began to be spread by mosquitoes once again.

The most recent outbreak, in 2015-2016, saw an estimated 1.5million people infected in Brazil, with other cases in other countries in both South and North America.

So far Europe has been spared an outbreak – but Professor Behrens said if the virus begins using mosquitoes as vectors on the continent, the situation could get MUCH more serious.

He said: “There have already been examples of vectors taking a disease from one part of the world to another.

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A health worker at an Ebola quarantine centre in Congo

“Dengue fever, for instance, originated in Asia, but has spread to South America because as a result breeding in water inside tyres which were shipped there.

“These things are happening and they can happen again.”

“The Zika virus could well spread to Southern Europe, which why public health and surveillance bodies have got to catch these outbreaks early.”

Nor does the bad news stop there.

The Democratic Republic of Congo this week announced an outbreak of Ebola after the confirmation of two more cases on Tuesday.

Ebola, unlike Zika, is a viral hemorrhagic fever which is spread by human contact, and is therefore easier to monitor.

However, Mr Behrens said it could nevertheless “easily” spread outside west Africa, where it has up until now been largely contained.

He said: “It could happen.

“If you had an outbreak and it spread to a slum in a big city in central America then it becomes very difficult to control its spread.”

Professor Behrens said the World Health Organisation and other national and international health bodies were taking the situation seriously.

He said: “Outbreaks are inevitable – the reaction depends on the quality of resources made available for public health.”

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Africa girl dies of new eye-bleeding fever, feared to be worse than Black Death

Deccan Chronicle — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:58:45 +0000

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 one of the worse diseases in 50 years. (Representational Image/ Pixabay)

Fears are growing of a major health crisis in East Africa as a girl died of a suspected fever which could be more deadly than the Black Death.

The nine-year-old died in central Uganda with the 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 one of the worse diseases in 50 years.

The symptoms of the mystery disease include headaches, bleeding, vomiting, diarrhoea and muscle pains, according to the Daily Star Sunday.

According to preliminary reports, a health team rushed to disinfect the girl’s house and put her in a body bag after she died in the Nakaseke District of central Uganda.

A relative of the dead girl said that the family had been left in the dark about burial arrangements while health officials rushed to contain the disease.

Three people were earlier reported to have died in South Sudan last week of a similar viral fever.

The medieval Black Death, caused by the bubonic plague, killed around 100million people in Europe after reaching the continent in 1347.

Source: https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/health-and-wellbeing/150118/africa-girl-dies-of-new-eye-bleeding-fever-feared-to-be-worse-than-black-death.html

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