Sources: BBC
The Ugandan parliament passes the Protection of Sovereignty Bill, which restricts foreign involvement in policymaking without government approval and imposes penalties of up to 10 years' imprisonment for violations. 2026-05-5
Five people are killed and eleven others are injured when a bus collides with a truck on the Kampala–Gulu Highway near Bweyale Town, Kiryandongo District, Uganda. 2026-03-10
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Chief of the Ugandan military, claiming to act with the authority of his father, President Yoweri Museveni, threatens to invade the Democratic Republic of the Congo and take control of Bunia, the capital of Ituri Province, unless local forces surrender their weapons within 24 hours. Kainerugaba alleges that the Hema people are being killed. 2025-02-15
Eighteen people are killed and fourteen others are rescued after a landslide at Kiteezi Landfill, a rubbish dump in Kampala, Uganda. 2024-08-10
Ahead of Thursday's election, Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine says that soldiers raided his home and arrested his security guards without providing any explanation. Wine has previously been accused by incumbent Yoweri Museveni of being "an agent of foreign interests". 2021-01-12
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurs in northern Tanzania, near Lake Victoria, killing at least 13 people and injuring 200 others. Tanzanian authorities report significant damage in the town of Bukoba. The governments of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda report tremors. 2016-09-10
M23 rebels announce their withdrawal from territory captured from government troops after a pullout deal was reached in Uganda. 2012-11-28
U.S. President Barack Obama authorizes the deployment of up to 100 American soldiers to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assist in operations against the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency. 2011-10-14
French and Ugandan scientists discover a 20-million-year-old skull of a tree-climbing ape in the Karamoja region of Uganda. 2011-08-2
Voters in Uganda go to the polls for the Ugandan general election. 2011-02-18