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Image released by Wild Frontiers tour company on Monday April 8, 2019, shows American tourist Kim Endicott, right, and field guide Jean-Paul Mirenge a day after they were rescued following a kidnap by unknown gunmen in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park. Ugandan police said on Sunday they had rescued Endicott, an American tourist, and her guide, Mirenge, who had been kidnapped by gunmen in a national park. (Wild Frontiers via AP)

Donald Trump urges Uganda to find kidnappers of freed U.S. tourist

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Uganda denies backing Rwandan rebels as tensions grow

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Carleton University shows Pius Adesanmi. Adesanmi, a Nigerian professor with Carleton University in Ottowa, Canada, was one of the victims who died Sunday, March 10, 2019, when an Ehtiopian Airlines jet crashed shortly after takeoff in Ethiopia. (Josh Hotz/Courtesy of Carleton University via AP)

Ethiopian crash victims were aid workers, doctors, students

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In this image taken from video, rescuers search through wreckage at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff at Hejere near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Sunday, March 10, 2019. The Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia's capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 on board, authorities said, as grieving families rushed to airports in Addis Ababa and the destination, Nairobi. (AP Photo/Yidnek Kirubel)

Government officials, doctors among Ethiopian crash victims

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Uganda: Pageant to showcase women’s ‘curves’ draws outrage

By Associated Press - Associated Press

Uganda deports French, Rwandan nationals in security threat

Associated Press

Congolese flee to Uganda after vote, raising Ebola fears

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

More than 1.6 million Anglicans and almost 800,000 Catholics in Uganda have converted to Islam, Pentecostal Christianity or traditional African beliefs, according to the 2014 census. The nation's
Muslims say their community is growing fast. (Associated Press/File)

Uganda Christians face Muslim persecution at record levels

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

In this courtroom drawing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas Zolkind, standing, addresses cooperating witness Cheikh Gadio, far right, during Hong Kong businessman Dr. Chi Ping Patrick Ho's bribery trial in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. Seated at far left is the defendant, Dr. Chi Ping Patrick Ho. On the bench is Judge Loretta Preska. The photo on the monitor shows the defendant and the President of Chad, Idriss Deby, taken during a meeting. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Hong Kong businessman guilty of bribery in African oil deal

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

In this photo taken Sunday, Sept 9, 2018, a health worker in protective gear works at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, Eastern Congo. The current Ebola outbreak in northeastern Congo has become a testing ground with one aid group for the first time treating confirmed Ebola victims in individual biosecure units used in emergencies involving highly infectious diseases. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro)

Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak now second-worst in history

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This photo released by Conflict Armament Research taken in Feb. 2017 is said by them to show an L-39 jet trainer/ground attack aircraft at the international airport in Juba, South Sudan. The Conflict Armament Research report released Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, says Uganda diverted European weapons to South Sudan's military despite an EU arms embargo and asks how a U.S. military jet ended up deployed in South Sudan in possible violation of arms export controls.(Conflict Armament Research via AP)

Uganda diverted weapons to South Sudan despite arms embargo

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, June 9, 2017 file photo, a South Sudanese refugee girl prepares to lick the last of her corn and soya porridge breakfast from her bowl, at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda. An internal inquiry released in Nov. 2018 says the United Nations refugee agency has misspent millions of dollars on Africa's largest refugee crisis. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

UN says millions misspent on Africa’s biggest refugee crisis

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Uganda, at ‘big risk’ for Ebola, says Congo is managing well

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, released by Presidential Press Unit, Kanye West, left, meets with Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni at State House in Entebbe, Uganda. Museveni said he and West held &quot;fruitful discussions&quot; about promoting tourism and arts in the East African nation in which the rapper is said to be recording music in a tent. (Presidential Press Unit via AP)

Kanye West meets Uganda’s president, gifts pair of sneakers

By Associated Press - Associated Press

Kanye West meets Uganda’s president, gifts pair of sneakers

By Associated Press - Associated Press

Rapper Kanye West smiles as he listens to a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House with President Donald Trump, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Kanye West meets with Uganda President Yoweri Museveni

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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West visit Uganda

By Associated Press - Associated Press

In this image made from video, residents look at a river filled with mud in Bududa District, Uganda, Friday, Oct. 12, 2018. At least 30 people died in mudslides triggered by torrential rains in a mountainous area of eastern Uganda that is prone to such disasters, a Red Cross official said Friday. More victims were likely to be discovered when rescue reams access all the affected areas in the foothills of Mount Elgon, said Red Cross spokeswoman Irene Nakasiita. (AP Photo)

At least 34 die in Uganda mudslides triggered by heavy rains

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Sept 9, 2018, file photo, health workers walk with a boy suspected of having the Ebola virus at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Eastern Congo. The World Health Organization says the risk of the deadly Ebola virus spreading from Congo is now &quot;very high&quot; after two confirmed cases were discovered near the Uganda border. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro) ** FILE **

Risk of Ebola’s spread from Congo now ‘very high,’ WHO says

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Congo reports Ebola death close to busy Ugandan border

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO - Associated Press