Uganda

KAMPALA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Uganda on Tuesday hailed China for the support it continues to give to countries under the South-South cooperation framework.

KAMPALA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Uganda on Tuesday ended a 42-day count down to be declared Ebola-free with no case reported in the period, the country's Minister of Health said.

Ruth Aceng, in a tweet, hailed the public for its vigilance in helping end the Ebola Sudan Virus outbreak, which was first reported in the country on September 20, 2022.

"Today, January 10, 2023, marks 42 days since we began the countdown to Ebola-free Uganda," Aceng said.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A stampede during New Year’s celebrations at a popular mall in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, left at least nine people dead, including children, police said Sunday.

The stampede happened at the Freedom City Mall in Namasuba suburb as revelers rushed to watch fireworks.

The Kampala Metropolitan deputy police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, said the incident appeared to have occurred at midnight “when an event emcee encouraged attendees to go outside and watch a fireworks display.”

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Allies of Ethiopia’s federal military are looting property and carrying out mass detentions in Tigray, according to eyewitnesses and aid workers.

The accounts raise fresh concern about alleged atrocities more than three weeks after the warring parties signed a truce that diplomats and others hoped would bring an end to suffering in the embattled region that’s home to more than 5 million people.

KAMPALA, Nov 26 (NNN-NEWVISION) — After close to five years of wait, Uganda and the People’s Republic of China have embarked on the third phase of the South to South Programme after the second phase ended in 2017. 

The South-to-South Cooperation project is a tripartite agreement between Uganda, China and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations whose first phase was signed in December 2011 to support the implementation of a development strategy and investment plan.

KAMPALA, Nov 20 (NNN-NEWVISION) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has met the Senior Advisor to the EU on Emerging Threats in the Great Lakes Region, Horn of Africa, and Western Indian Ocean, Charles Stuart, and the two have discussed a wide range of issues centered on security collaboration, investment, and support for wealth creation projects. 

Sources at the State House privy to the meeting said Stuart lauded Museveni for the stability he and the Uganda People’s Defense Forces had initiated in the Great Lakes Region and Somalia.

KAMPALA, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said East African nations working with the Congolese government will bring order in war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Museveni, according to a State House statement issued here late on Friday, said this while meeting a visiting UN Security Council delegation.

East African countries are deploying troops in eastern DRC under the East African Community (EAC) Regional Force.

01 Nov 2022; MEMO: Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni, said on Monday that Turkiye has become one of the most powerful partners for Uganda, Anadolu News Agency reports.

In a message to Turkiye's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Museveni said Turkish-Ugandan relations have gained momentum in every field.

Museveni also congratulated Erdogan and the Turkish people on the 99th anniversary of the Republic.

KAMPALA, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Uganda is grappling with double-digit inflation as spillover effects of the global economic decline filter through the domestic economy, the country's central bank, Bank of Uganda (BOU) has said.

Domestic inflation hit double digits for the first time in a decade, rising to 10 percent in September from 2.7 percent in January 2022, according to figures by the country's statistics agency, Uganda Bureau of Statistics. According to BOU, the closest Uganda's inflation touched the current level was in August 2012.

KAMPALA, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced a decision over the weekend to put the Ebola-affected central Ugandan districts of Mubende and Kassanda on lockdown with immediate effect.

Museveni said in a national address telecast live that the lockdown will last 21 days.

According to the measures, movement in and out of the two districts is prohibited. The two districts have also been placed under a night curfew with only cargo vehicles allowed to exit.