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Nearly 100 Congolese National Police officers flee to Uganda as fighting between M23 rebels and the FARDC intensifies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [11] Uganda Police arrest and charge fourteen opposition officials and lawmakers with terrorism charges for their participation in anti-government and anti-corruption protests in July. [12]
In the days leading up to the disaster, Uganda suffered from heavy rainfall that led to a tributary of the Nile located in the northwest of the country to overflow its river banks. The subsequent flooding led to a disaster alert issued from the office of the Ugandan prime minister , and rescue operations to save motorists stranded by the floods.
[8] [6] Model-based simulations for Uganda suggest that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t has been lower than 1.0 since July 2021. [9] A 2021 study found that the Uganda government used the COVID-19 pandemic to increase repression of opposition areas in Uganda. [10]
KAMPALA (Reuters) -The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in Uganda's capital Kampala has risen to 21, police said on Sunday, as rescue workers continued to dig for survivors.
The 2022–2023 Uganda Ebola outbreak was an outbreak of the Sudan ebolavirus, which causes Ebola, from 20 September 2022 until 10 January 2023 in the Western and Central Regions of Uganda. Over 160 people were infected, including 77 people who died. [1] It was Uganda's fifth outbreak with Sudan ebolavirus. [2]
Uganda imposes a new tax rate for using the internet as the government orders a 12% excise duty on mobile data. President Yoweri Museveni defends the tax as he says that social media users are "endlessly donating money to foreign telephone companies through chatting or even lying" and described the use of social media as a "luxury". This tax ...
10 January – Uganda reopens schools for the first time since March 2020 after a nearly two-year closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 1 ] 28 January – The Rwandan foreign ministry announces the reopening of the country 's border crossing with Uganda following political tensions between the two countries that led to the closure of the ...
There are 30 Cabinet ministers and 50 Ministers of State in the Cabinet of Uganda (2021 to 2026). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The number of state ministers reduced by one is September 2024 after the death of Hon. Sarah Mateke who was the state minister for defence.