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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

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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.

Reuters

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

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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

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.

Radio France Internationale

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

The Independent UK

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.

Reuters

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

Uganda Beats Ebola 2022

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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

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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.

Zenger

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

Uganda Beats Ebola 2022

Zenger

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

Uganda Beats Ebola 2022

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From Ukraine To Uganda, Meet The Aussie Who’s Been Saving Lives Abroad For Years

"I realised how interconnected this world is."

Reuters

Uganda president lifts all Ebola-related movement restrictions

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni lifted all Ebola-related movement restrictions on Saturday, saying the East African country had made progress in curbing the deadly disease.

WEKU

A hippo attacks a young boy, and then spits him out

The attack took place on a recent afternoon, as the boy was playing at his home near a lake in western Uganda.

Daily Record

Hippo swallows two-year-old boy before spitting him back out alive moments later

The hippo swallowed the little two-year-old boy at Lake Edward in Uganda.

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