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Former commander of the Lord's Resistance Army rebel Thomas Kwoyelo, smiles as he listens to the court ruling in Gulu, Uganda Friday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo)

Ex-commander of a Ugandan rebel group has been sentenced to 40 years in prison

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

An Egyptian fruit bat hangs upside down in its cage, in Winsted, Conn, July 29, 2003. The World Health Organization said Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease, saying the Ebola-related virus is responsible for at least nine deaths in the tiny Western African country. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)

Rwanda says no community transmission of Marburg virus, with zero new infections in recent days

By Rodney Muhumuza and Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

Parts of downed Shahed drones launched by Russia are piled in a storage room of a research laboratory in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Africans recruited to work in Russia say they were duped into building drones for use in Ukraine

By Emma Burrows and Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

In this Oct. 8, 2014, photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwanda’s Marburg outbreak is under control, Africa’s health chief says

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Members of the public gather for a funeral service of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei ahead of her burial in Kapkoros, Bukwo District, Uganda Saturday, Sept. 14. 2024. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Dozen of mourners pay respects to Ugandan athlete who died after her partner set her on fire

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Members of the public gather for a funeral service of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei ahead of her burial in Kapkoros, Bukwo District, Uganda Saturday, Sept. 14. 2024. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Ugandan athlete who died after her partner set her on fire gets a military funeral

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FILE - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, center, accompanied by workers from China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL) and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), inaugurates the start of drilling at the Kingfisher oil field on the shores of Lake Albert in the Kikuube district of western Uganda Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

U.S. rights watchdog cites ‘a climate of fear’ in Uganda oil development project

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Drivers of motorcycle taxis, known locally as boda-bodas, ride with passengers on a street of Kampala, Uganda, on July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

In Uganda’s chaotic capital, boda-boda motorcycle taxis are a source of life and death

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Red Cross personnel carry the body of a victim at the site of a collapsed landfill in Kampala, Uganda, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Death toll in Uganda rubbish heap collapse reaches 24 as rescue teams find more victims

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Onlookers watch as workers search for survivors at the site of a collapsed landfill in Kampala, Uganda, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

At least 18 dead after landfill site collapses in Uganda’s capital

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Religious and political organization protections against banks closing accounts and states banning debanking illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Religious and political ‘debanking’ must end

By Eric Bledsoe

The panel of five judges of the Constitutional Court led by the country's chief justice, Richard Buteera, in Kampala, Uganda, Wednesday, April 3, 2024, gives its seal of approval on the anti-homosexuality law, declaring that the Anti Homosexuality Act of 2023 complies with the Constitution of Uganda.(AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

Ugandan court rejects bid to nullify anti-gay law that provides for the death penalty in some cases

By Risdel Kasasira - Associated Press

Lilian Nabulime carving wood into a wooden sculpture piece at her workshop in Kyanja, a suburb in Kampala City, Wednesday Nov. 29 2023.. Lilian Nabulime hasn't forgotten the time in the 1990s when the Ugandan capital had just one commercial art gallery, a small space that emerging artists struggled to get into. Now there are at least six in Kampala, including one whose curators recently exhibited the sculptor's contrarian work. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda.)

A vibrant art scene in Uganda mirrors African boom as more collectors show interest

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

This undated file photo shows Uganda's then President Idi Amin Dada. Amin, who took power by force in Uganda in 1971 and ruled until he was removed by armed groups of exiles in 1979, died in Saudi Arabia in 2003. His passing was barely acknowledged in Uganda, and some of Amin's supporters over the years have unsuccessfully lobbied for his remains to be returned home, underscoring his tainted legacy. (AP Photo, File)

A contest erupts in Uganda over the tainted legacy of late dictator Idi Amin

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

FILE - John Gafabusa, custodian of the Mutyona natural sacred site near Buliisa, Uganda, points at a water covered sacred site on Lake Albert at the Karakaba landing site, on Aug. 3, 2023. The French oil company TotalEnergies is failing to protect the sanctity of hundreds of graves in a controversial project that aims to build a heated pipeline from oil fields in Uganda to a port in Tanzania, according to a new report by a New York-based climate watchdog. (AP Photo/Hajarah Natwadda, File)

A TotalEnergies pipeline project in East Africa is disturbing community graves, watchdog says

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni attends the state funeral of Kenya's former president Daniel Arap Moi in Nairobi, Kenya on Feb. 11, 2020. Human rights violations including extrajudicial killings in Uganda in recent years have raised the concern of a panel of United Nations experts. Uganda's security forces face growing allegations of brutality in their encounters with perceived opponents of the government of President Yoweri Museveni. (AP Photo/John Muchucha, File)

U.N. panel says it’s concerned about human rights violations in Uganda in recent years

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, left, and Kenya's President William Ruto, right, give a joint press conference after meeting at State House in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Iran's president has begun a rare visit to Africa as the country, which is under heavy U.S. economic sanctions, seeks to deepen partnerships around the world. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Iran’s president begins a rare visit to Africa to ‘promote economic diplomacy’

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

A gay Ugandan man covers himself with a pride flag as he poses for a photograph in Uganda on March 25, 2023. Washington is imposing visa restrictions for some targeted Ugandans accused of "undermining the democratic process" after the enactment of an anti-gay law in the East African country, a statement said Friday, June 16, 2023. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. imposes visa restrictions for some Ugandans following adoption of anti-gay law

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A gay Ugandan couple cover themselves with a pride flag as they pose for a photograph in Uganda on March 25, 2023. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in the country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad, it was announced Monday, May 29, 2023. (AP Photo, File)

Uganda’s president signs into law tough anti-gay legislation with death penalty in some cases

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

The body of a bodyguard is put into an ambulance by Ugandan medical staff in Kyanja village, Kampala, Tuesday May 2, 2023. A bodyguard shot and killed a government minister in Uganda early Tuesday in an apparent private dispute, according to the army and local media. The attacker, who has not been publicly identified, then turned the gun on himself, according to state broadcaster UBC and others. (AP Photo/Ajar Nalwadda)

Media: Ugandan minister shot and killed by bodyguard

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press