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The death toll from an Ebola virus outbreak in Mubende District, Uganda, increases to 23, with a total of 36 confirmed and suspected cases.
2022-09-26

Uganda reopens schools for the first time since March 2020 after a nearly two year closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022-01-10

The governments of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo reveal that they have captured 35 rebels and destroyed numerous enemy strongholds within the past week.
2021-12-20

Police in Uganda raid a gay-friendly bar in Kampala and charge 67 people with "common nuisance" in what is described as the "latest attack on Uganda's LGBT community".
2019-11-12

The UK gives a lesbian from Uganda an injunction to temporarily prevent her deportation to the country where gay activist David Kato was murdered earlier this week.
2011-01-29

The funeral is held in a village near Kampala for David Kato, a gay rights activist in Uganda. He was recently murdered after successfully suing "Rolling Stone" for naming him as gay on its front cover, and had been receiving death threats. A pastor causes controversy by preaching for homosexuals to repent but is swiftly taken away.
2011-01-28

Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato, who was named in tabloid paper "Rolling Stone" last year, is found murdered.
2011-01-27

The World Health Organization announces a mass polio vaccination campaign across Africa, the same day an outbreak of the disease in Uganda is declared.
2010-10-26

Almost 90,000 people flee renewed fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in the past month reflecting a declining security situation as the military fights Allied Democratic Forces-National Army for the Liberation of Uganda Ugandan Islamist rebels.
2010-08-1

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