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People attend a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Kilmar Abrego Garciab. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Immigration battle over fate of accused human smuggler Garcia puts spotlight on Uganda

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Health workers prepare to administer vaccines against the Sudan strain of Ebola, during a trial at Mulago Referral Hospital, in Kampala, Uganda Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Uganda discharges the last Ebola patients. No new deaths from the contagious virus reported

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

A health worker prepares to administer a vial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola, during a trial, at Mulago Referral Hospital, in Kampala, Uganda Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Ebola cases in Uganda rise to 9, while 265 others are being monitored under quarantine

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

FILE - A medical worker disinfects a tent used for suspected Ebola victims inside the Ebola isolation center of Madudu Health Center III, in the village of Madudu, in the Mubende district of Uganda Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

Ugandan health authorities are set to begin an Ebola vaccine trial after new outbreak kills a nurse

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

People walk outside the Mulago National Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan, 30, 2024, where a nurse had died of Ebola. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

Hospital nurse in Uganda dies in country’s first Ebola outbreak in 2 years

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

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

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

A member of the security forces uses his mobile phone torch to inspect a bedroom inside the Lhubiriha Secondary School following an attack on the school on Saturday, in Mpondwe, Uganda Sunday, June 18, 2023, near the border with Congo. Ugandan authorities have recovered the bodies of 41 people including 38 students who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked the school, according to the local mayor. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Ugandan border town prepares to bury victims of rebel massacre that left 42 dead, mostly students

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

A gay Ugandan couple cover themselves with a pride flag as they pose for a photograph in Uganda on March 25, 2023. Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday, May 2, 2023 passed a new version of an anti-gay bill that removes a clause which appeared to criminalize identifying as LGBTQ. (AP Photo, File)

Ugandan lawmakers pass new version of tough anti-gay bill

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Doctors wearing protective equipment pray together before they visit a patient who was in contact with an Ebola victim, in the isolation section of Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda on Oct. 20, 2022. Six schoolchildren in Uganda's capital Kampala have tested positive for Ebola, the health minister said Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, marking a serious escalation of the outbreak declared just over a month ago. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

Ebola infects 6 schoolkids in Uganda as contagion fear grows

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Security forces and forensics officers examine the scene of a blast on a street near the parliamentary building in Kampala, Uganda, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Two loud explosions rocked Uganda's capital, Kampala, early Tuesday, sparking chaos and confusion as people fled what is widely believed to be coordinated attacks. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

2 explosions rock Uganda’s capital, Kampala, injuring 24

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Supporters of leading opposition challenger Bobi Wine cheer as election officials count the ballots after polls closed in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. Ugandans voted in a presidential election tainted by widespread violence that some fear could escalate as security forces try to stop supporters of Wine from monitoring polling stations.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Uganda says president wins 6th term as vote-rigging alleged

Associated Press

In this photo taken Saturday, June 20, 2020, Rebecca Nakamanya works at a restaurant near a bus terminal in capital Kampala, Uganda. The COVID-19 pandemic means that millions of women in Africa and other developing regions could lose years of success in contributing to household incomes, asserting their independence and expanding financial inclusion. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Women ‘on precipice’ in developing countries amid COVID-19

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Young Ugandan who featured in a Disney chess film dies at 15

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

In this photo of Wednesday, July 10, 2019, Kampala Capital City Authority workers empty latrines in Makindye Lukuli, Uganda. Africa faces a population boom unmatched anywhere in the world, with millions of people moving to fast-growing cities but the decades-old sanitation facilities are crumbling under the pressure. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Africa’s booming cities face a severe toilet crisis

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday Oct. 12, 2018 file photo, Kyadondo MP Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, gestures during a visit to Nairobi, Kenya. Ugandan pop star and opposition politician Bobi Wine staged his first concert since being charged with treason, in a show of defiance punctuated by anti-government slogans and barbs aimed at the long-time president he is challenging. Thousands of Ugandans attended the lakeside event Saturday, Nov. 10 outside the capital, Kampala, many of them clad in red outfits symbolizing their allegiance to the “People Power” movement led by Wine. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, file)

Ugandan pop star-politician performs 1st show since jailing

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

An estimated 19 million low-income Ugandans have effectively lost access to Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype and other apps as a result on the Ugandan tax, which took effect on July 1. (Associated Press/File)

Yoweri Museveni, Uganda president, fights ‘fake news’ with social media tax

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Clouds have grown increasingly ominous ahead of the vote Thursday that could give Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who has held power for 30 years, another five-year term. (Associated Press)

Yoweri Museveni’s bid to extend 30-year rule in Uganda latest test of African democracy

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times