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Seven people are killed and seven others are missing after floods, followed by a tornado, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, strike Durban.
2023-06-29

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

Cyclone Eloise leaves at least thirteen people dead and more than 8,000 people homeless after making landfall in central Mozambique. Major flooding is also reported in Eswatini, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
2021-01-25

The Ugandan rebel group kills up to 80 people near Beni in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2014-11-20

The United Nations publishes a toned down version of its report into war crimes said to have occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the 1990s after Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi rejected the report's findings.
2010-10-1

Human rights groups express dismay at Kenya for the secret sending to Uganda of four suspects after the 2010 FIFA World Cup attacks in Kampala. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents are also said to have engaged in illegal interrogation of three of them.
2010-08-19

Uganda's government defends the forced repatriation of 1,700 Rwandan refugees, deemed "heavy-handed" by the United Nations; two people are killed in a group alleged to be a security risk following the July 2010 Kampala attacks.
2010-07-20

Ugandan police arrest 20 people, including several Pakistanis, for their alleged role in the recent bombings in Kampala.
2010-07-18

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

Two bomb attacks in the Ugandan capital Kampala kill at least 64 people; the Somali militant group Al-Shabab, which has pledged loyalty to al-qaida, is suspected of being behind the attack.
2010-07-11