Sources: The Straits Times
The Home Affairs Ministry of South Africa orders the release of two gay men who were arrested and imprisoned in Johannesburg after escaping Uganda. The couple requested to remain in South Africa out of fears of persecution in Uganda. The South Gauteng High Court ordered the immediate release of the men and also ordered that they be allowed to remain in South Africa. 2021-08-29
In compliance with recent UN Security Council resolutons, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda announces an end to security and military cooperation with North Korea. 2016-05-29
M23 rebels begin their withdrawal from the city of Goma as part of a Uganda-brokered deal struck a week earlier. 2012-12-1
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and several others are arrested. 2012-01-19
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni becomes the first foreign leader to visit the Somali capital Mogadishu in 20 years. 2010-11-28
An outbreak of jiggers, a rotting disease, kills 20 people in Uganda and sickens a further 20,000. 2010-10-22
Ugandan authorities arrest a number of people in connection with the July 2010 Kampala attacks which left at least 74 people dead. 2010-07-13
Chile tests a package marked "anthrax" delivered to the country's foreign ministry. 2010-07-13
A priest accused of involvement in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide is arrested in Uganda after he entered from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2010-07-2
Hundreds of corpses buried in a mudslide which swept away three villages on the slopes of Mount Elgon near Bududa, Uganda, three months ago are yet to be recovered. 2010-05-28