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The Baganda, the most powerful tribe in
Uganda.
(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-10)
Luganda, Lutoro and Lubukusu are native languages.
(NH, 6/97, p.38)
21Mil BC A fossil of a creature
called Morotopithecus bishopi, a tree-dwelling, ape-like creature
that lived in what is now Uganda, was found in the 1960s and
indicated that its transverse process had moved backward, behind the
opening for the spinal cord. In 2007 Dr. Aaron Filler authored "The
Upright Ape: a new origin of the Species," in which he argued that
this common ancestor, and ancestors going back many millions of
years before, walked upright. Homo sapiens, the human species,
continued upright, while apes evolved back toward all fours.
(AP, 7/16/07)
20Mil BC Ugandapithecus Major, a remote cousin of
modern great apes, roamed Uganda about this time. The fossilized
skull of a male Ugandapithecus Major was discovered in 2011.
(AFP, 8/2/11)
1860 Apr, John Speke and James
Grant left England on an expedition to confirm Lake Victoria as the
source of the Nile.
(ON, 10/01, p.9)(WSJ, 5/20/06, p.P9)
1862 Jul, John Speke and James
Grant discovered Ripon Falls at the northern end of Lake Victoria
(Uganda), which he identified as the source of the White Nile.
(http://tinyurl.com/qtxrk)
1863 Feb 15, Samuel and
Florence Baker encountered John Speke and James Grant at the
frontier village of Gondokoro (southern Sudan). Speke and Grant said
they had found the Nile’s headwaters at a lake they named Victoria
(Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda).
(ON, 10/01, p.9)
1864 Feb 10, Samuel and
Florence Baker arrived in the village of King Kamrisi (in Uganda) on
their search for a lake called Luta N’Zige, through which flowed a
branch of the Nile.
(ON, 10/01, p.9)
1864 Mar 14, Samuel and
Florence Baker arrived at Lake Luta N’Zige and named it Lake Albert.
They soon found that the Nile entered the lake at a 130-foot
waterfall that they named Murchison Falls (Uganda) after the
president of the British Royal Geographical Society. In 2004 Pat
shipman authored “To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and
the Exploration of Central Africa.”
(ON, 10/01, p.12)(Econ, 4/24/04, p.87)
1886 Jun 3, 24 Christians were
burned to death in Namgongo, Uganda.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1892 Jan 25, In Buganda
(Uganda) the Battle of Mengo took place. Catholics advanced against
Anglicans armed with machine guns just outside what is now Kampala.
(Econ, 2/14/04,
p.16)(www.africa2000.com/UGANDA/tribute.html)
1905 Oct 19, Kiotalel arap
Samoei was murdered in Kenya's central Rift Valley. He led tribal
opposition to the construction of the so-called "Lunatic Express,"
the Kenya-Uganda Railway, from the Indian Ocean Port of Mombasa
through Nandiland in the Rift Valley to Lake Victoria. More than
12,000 people are believed to have been killed in a bloody 10-year
struggle over the railroad that began in 1895 when surveyors first
marked Nandi territory as a route for the tracks.
(AFP, 10/19/05)
1919 In central Uganda Semei
Kakungule, chief of the Abayudaya, converted to Judaism after the
British broke a promise to give him a kingdom. By 1961 membership
reached 3,000. In 1972 Idi Amin banned Judaism. Membership in 2004
was about 600.
(Econ, 1/24/04, p.43)
1923 Idi Amin (d.2003) was born
into the Kakwa tribe in Koboko, Uganda. Some sources give 1925 as
his birth date.
(SFC, 8/16/03, p.A21)
1924 Dec 28, Apolo Milton Obote
(d.2005), later dictator of Uganda (1966-1971 and 1980-1985) was
born in northern Uganda.
(AFP, 10/11/05)
1937 The West Nile virus was
1st identified in the West Nile District of Uganda. It was able to
cause fatal encephalitis in humans.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.D6)
1947 An Egyptian and Ugandan
water agreement led to the construction of Uganda’s Owen Falls Dam
and authorized Egyptian engineers to monitor Nile water releases.
(WSJ, 8/22/97, p.A1)
1951 Idi Amin became the
heavyweight boxing champion of Uganda, holding the title until 1960.
(www.moreorless.au.com/killers/amin.html)
1952 Idi Amin of Uganda served
in the British action against the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya (1952-56)
and was described by officials as "a splendid type and a good
(rugby) player, but virtually bone from the neck up, and needs
things explained in words of one letter."
(www.moreorless.au.com/killers/amin.html)
1954 In Uganda Owen Falls Dam
was built at the source of the Nile River. It used Lake Victoria’s
waters to generate power for Ugandan residents and export to
neighboring nations.
(SFC, 6/24/08, p.A14)
1962 Mar 1, Uganda became a
self-governing country under PM Benedicto Kiwanuka.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Uganda)
1962 Apr 30, Milton Obote took
over as prime minister of Uganda.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Uganda)
1962 Oct 9, Uganda became an
independent state within the Britain Commonwealth.
(PCh, 1992, p.984)(SFC, 5/4/96, P.A-10)(AP,
10/9/04)
1963 PM Obote abolished
Uganda's status as a Commonwealth realm and replaced the post of
Governor-General with a figurehead Presidency. Edward Mutesa, king
of the Buganda region, was elected president in rigged elections.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mutesa)
1966 Mar 2, Milton Obote stage
a coup against Pres. Edward Mutesa (d.1969) and had himself declared
president of Uganda. Mutesa, the Baganda king and non-executive
president of Uganda, was burned out of his palace and exiled. Mutesa
fled Obote’s army and went to London where his son, Ronald Muwenda
Mutebi was enrolled in boarding school.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Obote)(WSJ,
12/19/94, A-1,6)(Econ, 7/26/08, p.58)
1966 Pres. Obote of Uganda made
Idi Amin military chief of staff.
(SFC, 8/16/03, p.A21)
1966 Uganda’s traditional
kingdoms were banned. They were reinstated in 1993, but President
Yoweri Museveni restricted their leaders to a largely ceremonial
role to avoid potential political rivals.
(AP, 9/11/09)
1966-1986 For 2 decades Ugandans lived under the
bloody rule of Idi Amin and Milton Obote.
(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-10)
1967 The East African Community
(EAC) of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda established a common shilling.
The EAC lasted only a decade as cooperation fizzled. The project was
revived in 1999 and expanded in 2007 to include Burundi and Rwanda.
(WSJ, 1/13/98, p.A1)(Econ, 9/5/09, p.52)
1967 Uganda’s Pres. Obote
banned the countries traditional kingdoms.
(SFC, 10/20/09, p.A4)
1971 Jan 25, In Uganda Gen. Idi
Amin (d.2003) led a military coup that seized power while Pres.
Obote was at a summit in Singapore. Obote sought refuge in Tanzania.
(WUD, 1994, p. 1688)(SFC, 10/12/05, p.B7)
1971 Feb 2, Idi Amin assumed
power in Uganda, following a coup that ousted President Milton
Obote. Idi Amin Dada (1925-2003) appointed himself president.
(AP,
2/2/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin)
1972 Aug 4, Uganda’s president
Idi Amin gave some 50,000 Asians 90 days to leave the country
following an alleged dream in which, he claimed, God told him to
expel them.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin)
1972 Sep 18, Thousands of
Gujarati Indians began arriving in Britain following their expulsion
from Uganda by Dictator Idi Amin. Deprived of its business class the
nation soon plummeted into economic chaos.
(http://tinyurl.com/2lm7n5)(SFC, 8/16/03, p.A21)
1972 In Uganda Idi Amin’s State
Research Bureau stuffed the chief justice into the boot of a car,
after which he was never heard of again.
(Econ, 11/26/05, p.60)
1973 In Uganda some 14,300
elephants were in the Murchison Falls National Park at this time. By
1980 only 1,400 were left.
(NG, May 1985, p.627)
1974 The documentary film
“General Idi Amin (A Self Portrait),” head of Uganda, was produced
by Barbet Schroeder.
(WSJ, 9/29/06, p.W4)
1976 Jun 27, An Air France
Airbus flight AF139, from Tel Aviv to Paris, was hijacked shortly
after departing Athens and taken to Uganda.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France)
1976 Jul 3, Israel launched its
daring mission to rescue 103 passengers and Air France crew members
being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian
hijackers.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1976 Jul 4, Jonathan Netanyahu,
brother of Benjamin, led and was killed in an Israeli raid called
Operation Thunderball that rescued the [105] hostages held at
Entebbe Airport in Uganda. The raid was by Sayeret Matkal, Israel’s
elite counter-terrorist unit led by Muki Betser, and it freed all
but 3 of the 104 Israeli and Jewish hostages and crew of an Air
France jetliner seized by pro-Palestinian hijackers. A total of 45
Ugandan soldiers were killed during the raid. The events are
described by Muki Betser and Robert Rosenberg in "Secret Soldier,
The True Life of Israel’s Greatest Commando." The hijacking was
linked to Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe)(AP,
7/4/97)(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)
1976 Jul 9, Uganda asked UN to
condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1976-7/1976-07-09-NBC-18.html)
1977 Feb 16, Janani Luwum, the
Anglican archbishop of Uganda, and two other men were killed in what
Ugandan authorities said was an automobile accident.
(AP, 2/16/98)
1977 Henry Kyemba, a former
Uganda minister in Idi Amin’s government, authored in exile “A State
of Blood,” a description of his years as a minister under Amin.
(SSFC, 2/18/07, p.A22)
1978 Oct 30, Uganda troops
attacked Tanzania. Uganda under Idi Amin went on to annex a
700-square-mile section of Tanzania. Pres. Nyerere sent Tanzanian
soldiers and Ugandan exile volunteers to push back Amin's forces.
(SFC, 10/15/99,
p.D7)(www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/16/1060936102425.html)
1978 Nov 1, Uganda, following
its invasion into Tanzania, formally annexed a section across the
Kagera River boundary.
(www.onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr75/ftanzaniauganda1978.htm)
1979 Apr 11, Idi Amin was
deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by
Tanzanian forces seized control. Amin escaped to Libya and settled
into exile in Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 4/11/97)(SFC, 10/15/99,
p.D7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin)
1980 Dec 17, Milton Obote
(1924-2005) began serving a 2nd term as president of Uganda.
(SFC, 8/16/03,
p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Obote)
1980 In Murchison Falls
National Park, Uganda, some 1,400 elephants were left from an
estimated count of 14,300 in 1973. No rhinos were known to remain in
the park.
{Uganda, Animal}
(NG, May 1985, p.627)
1980-1994 Life expectancy in Uganda dropped from
52 to 40 due to AIDS.
(SFC, 4/3/96, p.A-5)
1981 Feb, In Uganda Yoweri
Museveni, and his armed supporters declared themselves the National
Resistance Army (NRA). Museveni led a five-year bush war against
Milton Obote. Museveni had trained in a Libya guerrilla camp.
(http://countrystudies.us/uganda/12.htm)(SFC,
5/11/96, p.A-8)(AP, 12/16/02)
1984-1985 Famine ravaged the Karamoja region of
eastern Uganda.
(Econ, 7/30/11, p.46)
1985 Jan, Alice Auma
(1956-2007) became possessed by a spirit she called Lakwena, an
Italian army captain who drowned in the Nile in the first world war.
(Econ, 1/27/07, p.87)
1986 Jan, In Uganda the
National Resistance rebel army of Yoweri Museveni swept into power.
He defeated Obote and Tito Okello's mainly northern Acholi forces.
Many Acholi soldiers fled to the Sudan and some joined the Lord's
Resistance Army (LRA).
(SFC, 3/5/96, p.A9)(SFC, 5/25/98, p.A12)
1986 Aug, In Uganda the Holy
Spirit Mobile Forces (HSMF), a Christian fundamentalist revolt,
began under the leadership of Alice Lakwena (1956-2007). The
movement was crushed by the army and Lakwena fled to Kenya where she
was imprisoned in 1987.
(SFC, 3/5/96, p.A9)(Econ, 1/27/07, p.87)
1986 Yoweri Museveni was shown
in photographs as a victorious guerrilla leader. Over the next ten
years he brought peace and fast economic growth to most of Uganda.
He ruled by cooperating on regional issues, pursuing economic
reforms, and stifling the opposition with restrictions on political
parties.
(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-8)
1989 Jan 12, Idi Amin was
expelled from Zaire (later CongoDRC) and forced to return to Saudi
Arabia.
(www.moreorless.au.com/killers/amin.html)
1989 Credonia Mwerinde met with
Joseph Kibwetere and told him of her vision of the Virgin Mary and
her complaint that the world was off course because people had
departed from the Ten Commandments.”
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A10)
1990 Joseph Kony, a faith
healer, revived the Holy Spirit Movement and led his LRA rebels in
northern Uganda from training camps in southern Sudan.
(SFC, 3/5/96, p.A9)
1992 The Foundation for Int’l.
Community Assistance (FINCA) Banking on the Poor, based in
Washington, began working in Uganda. It made small loans to women
who began small businesses.
(SFC, 3/24/98, p.A12)
1992 The Lord’s Resistance led
by Joseph Kony began kidnapping boys and girls to act as laborers,
sex slaves and fighters.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.A17)
1994 Ronald Muwenda Mutebi
returned to Buganda, Uganda, as titular King.
(WSJ, 12/19/94, A-1,6)
1994 Sudan’s government began
funding the (LTA) Lord’s Resistance Army in retaliation for Uganda’s
support of the southern-based rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army.
(SFC, 5/25/98, p.A12)
1994-2000 Ugandans living in absolute poverty fell
over this period from 50% to 33%.
(Econ, 4/16/05, p.41)
1995 Apr, Uganda broke off ties
with Sudan.
(SFC, 12/7/96, p.A10)
1995 May, In Uganda Museveni
won presidential elections in a landslide. The rebel group West Nile
Bank Front began its campaign against Pres. Yoweri Museveni.
Uganda’s population at this time stood at about 15 million.
(SFC, 3/5/96, p.A9)(SFC, 7/2/96, p.A10)(Econ,
2/14/09, p.58)
1996 Mar, Presidential
elections are scheduled for May 9 and parliamentary elections in
June.
(WSJ, 3/29/96, p.A-1)
1996 Apr, Up to 20% of the
residents of Kampala, the capital, were infected with AIDS.
(SFC, 4/3/96, p.A-5)
1996 Apr 22, Amooti Ndyakira
was a Goldman Award winner for his journalism on endangered gorilla
habitats in Uganda.
(USAT, 4/22/96, p.4-D)
1996 May 10, Yoweri Museveni
won the elections with about 75% of the vote over Paul Semogerere, a
former ally of Obote.
(SFC, 5/10/96, p.A-8)
1996 Jun 27, Ugandans voted for
a new parliament. 814 candidates ran as individuals.
(SFC, 6/28/96, p.A14)
1996 Jul 1, Rebels fighting for
the return of Idi Amin killed 11 people in a nightclub in Koboko.
(SFC, 7/2/96, p.A10)
1996 Jul 13-1996 Jul 14, In
Uganda more than 90 Sudanese refugees were killed in a camp 220
miles north of Kampala. The Lord’s Resistance Army was blamed.
(WSJ, 7/16/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 20, Rebels of the
Lord’s Resistance Army abducted some 80 people, half of them
students, 125 miles north of Kampala.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A1)
1996 Oct, The LRA abducted 139
girls from a Catholic school run by Italian nuns. One nun managed to
plead for the release of 109 girls but the rebels kept 30, ignoring
pleas from Pope John Paul II and other world leaders.
(SFC, 5/25/98, p.A10)
1996 Nov 29, A Canadian-led
int’l. force won approval to provide humanitarian aid. The force
would be based in Uganda.
(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A12)
1996 Nov, In the Tororo
district of southeastern Uganda, Okecho killed a male baboon for
damaging his maize and banana plantations. Some 30 baboons mourned
the death of their comrade and carried him off. The baboons later
returned and killed Okecho and pulled out his heart.
(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A10)
1996 Dec 6, Rebel groups were
forcing tens of thousands from their homes in northern Uganda.
(SFC, 12/7/96, p.A10)
1996 Uganda abolished fees for
primary education and enrollment almost doubled in a year.
(Econ, 7/15/06, p.76)
1997 Aug 10, The state-owned
Sunday Vision reported that its Chinese-built arms factory would
stop producing land mines and grenades. The Ugandan army would be
supplied but the products would not be exported. Dry-cells would be
produced to replace the land mines and grenades.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A8)
1997 Dec 10, US Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright pledged $2.2 million for World Vision, a
center that cares for abducted children, and a $2 million grant for
Lacor Hospital, where many children receive treatment.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.A17)
1997 A government commission,
the Uganda Law Reform Commission, recommended that the number of
wives a man can marry be limited to 2, and that men prove that they
have the resources to support 2 wives if they choose to marry twice.
Muslims, who comprise 10% of the people, opposed the ruling because
Islamic law allows men to have up to 4 wives.
(SFEC, 4/6/98, p.A12)
1997 By UN definition 11% of
the children were orphans due to AIDS.
(SFC, 12/2/99, p.A18)
1998 Mar 23-25, Pres. Clinton
was scheduled to visit Uganda.
(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A13)
1998 Apr 6, It was reported
that rebels in western Uganda, who were short of food, had abducted
a number of villagers and resorted to cannibalism.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Apr 13, Army forces
captured Semdin Sakik, a field commanded of the PKK, Kurdistan
Workers Party, in a secret raid in northern Iraq.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.C12)
1998 May 15, Three African
nations, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, announced plans for an
economic, political and social union.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun, Newly elected Kampala
mayor Nasser Ntge Sebaggala was arrested in New York for lying to
custom's agents, bringing in $108,000 in traveler's checks without
declaring them and defrauding the BostonBank. He was convicted in
1999 and sentenced to 15 months in prison.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A12)
1998 Jul 17, Pres. Museveni
proposed a single continental army and government for Africa with
headquarters in Kampala.
(SFC, 7/18/98, p.A12)
1998 Aug-Sep, At least 29
Ugandans were killed in bombings on 3 buses outside Kampala
following the Museveni’s support of the US cruise missile attacks in
Afghanistan and Sudan on Aug 20.
(SFC, 9/25/98, p.A14)
1998 Sep 18, Uganda’s
government closed the Int’l. Credit Bank due to activities
"detrimental to the interests of depositors."
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.A22)
1998 Sep 19, Police arrested 18
people suspected of planning attacks on diplomatic missions and
government installations.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, p.A24)
1998 In Uganda plant breeder
William Wagoira found stem rust on his crops. The fungal wheat rust
(Puccinia graminis) had not been seen since the Green Revolution. By
2010 the fungus had spread as far as Iran and South Africa and
scientists feared further spread.
(Econ, 7/3/10, p.57)
1999 Feb 14, Two bombs exploded
in Kampala bars and 5 people were killed and 35 injured.
(WSJ, 2/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 1, Hutu rebels
kidnapped 13 tourists and an unknown number of Ugandans at the
Bwindi Nat'l. Park. Linda Adams of Alamo, Ca., escaped, the rebels
by faking an asthma attack. Separately rebels of the Allied
Democratic Forces killed 5 people in a camp near Ntotoro village.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A8)(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A1,C5)
1999 Mar 2, Hutu rebels killed
8 hostages and 4 Ugandans. Among the dead were Americans Robert
Haubner and Susan Miller of Hillsboro, Ore. They were there to track
the mountain gorillas. Uganda insisted that the 2 Americans, 4
Britons and 2 New Zealanders died in a police rescue bid.
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/3/99, p.A1)(SFEC,
3/7/99, p.T14)
1999 Mar 3, The Ugandan army
killed 15 of the Rwanda Hutu rebels who butchered 8 foreign tourists
Mar 2. Another 100 rebels escaped into the bush in side the Republic
of the Congo.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 4, Ugandan soldiers
killed 10 more Rwandan rebels inside Congo for the killing of
foreign tourists.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A16)
1999 Mar 26, In Uganda it was
reported that wheat stem-rust fungus had appeared on a crop. The
fungus killed nearly half the world's crop before the green
revolution of the 1950s. The black rust disease was named Ug99 and
by 2007 had jumped to Yemen. In 2008 it was confirmed in Iran. In
2008 Cornell Univ. received a $26.8 million grant from the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation to help combat the new strains of rust
disease.
(WSJ, 3/26/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/3/08, p.A16)
1999 Mar 29, Officials reported
that the army had killed another 18 of the Rwandan Hutu rebels who
had murdered 8 foreign tourists.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.F8)
1999 Apr 6, Rebels of the
Allied Democratic Forces killed 11 civilians near Bundibugyio by the
Congolese border.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 25, Police reported
that a bomb killed 5 people and injured 15 in a poor neighborhood of
Kampala.
(WSJ, 4/26/99, p.A1)
1999 May 11, US Ambassador
Nancy Powell expressed regret in a decision to withdraw Peace Corps
volunteers from Uganda due to safety.
(SFC, 5/18/99, p.C12)
1999 May 14, Pres. Museveni
offered amnesty to rebel leader Joseph Kony, head of the Sudanese
backed Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Members of the LRA were
included in the offer.
(SFC, 5/15/99, p.A11)
1999 Aug 13, Troops were sent
across the northeast to quell ethnic unrest following 155 killings
in the past month. A clan of ethnic Karamajongs was attacked 2 weeks
earlier by rival Karamajongs and Turkanans from northern Kenya and
at least 140 people were killed.
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.C1)
1999 Aug 17, Rwanda and Uganda
agreed to an immediate truce to 4 days of fighting in Kisangani,
Congo.
(SFC, 8/18/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 29, Pres. Museveni
ordered the arrest of homosexuals and said that UN human rights
conventions do not necessarily apply to Africa.
(SFC, 9/30/99, p.D14)
1999 Sep, Wilson Bushara (41)
fled after police raided his camp in Bokoko. He led the World
Message Last Warning cult and at least 24 bodies had been found
buried in his camp. Bushara was arrested in 2000.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.C3)
1999 Dec 11, Anti-government
rebels killed at least 21 people in 2 attacks. In one the
Congo-based Allied Democratic Forces raided police headquarters in
Bundibugyo and killed 9 people.
(SFC, 12/14/99, p.B2)
1999 In Uganda the Kiira Dam
was built alongside the 1954 Owen Falls Dam at the source of the
Nile River. They used Lake Victoria’s waters to generate power for
Ugandan residents and export to neighboring nations.
(SFC, 6/24/08, p.A14)
1999 The Uganda parliament
censured Sam Kutesa and Jim Muhwezi for alleged conflicts of
interest.
(Econ, 7/2/05, p.44)
1999 John Sabunnya was found
and taken to the Kamuzinda Christian Orphanage. He had spent the
last 4 years in the forest under the care of apes following the
murder of his mother when he was 3.
(WSJ, 10/22/99, p.W15)
2000 Jan 16, A weekend rebel
attack by Allied Democratic Forces killed 25 civilians and 3
soldiers at the Kirindi camp, 186 miles west of Kampala.
(SFC, 1/18/00, p.A12)
2000 Jan 24, Members of the
Karamojong tribe attacked and killed 14-100 herders from Kenya's
Pokot tribe in the northern Moriat Hills.
(SFC, 1/28/00, p.A15)
2000 Mar 6, An overloaded boat
sank on Lake Victoria and at least 45 people drowned.
(WSJ, 3/9/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 17, Some 330 followers
of the Movement for the Restoration of Ten Commandments of God, led
by Joseph Kibweteree, burned to death in a mass suicide in Kanungu.
Children were involved and it was not clear if Kibweteree was
killed. More bodies were found at the house of Kibweteree. Foul play
was later suspected instead of suicide. 448 other victims were later
found.
(SFEC, 3/19/00, p.A19)(SFC, 3/20/00, p.A13)(SFC,
3/24/00, p.A18)(SFC, 7/15/00, p.A13)
2000 Mar 24, Authorities found
a mass burial site in Rukungiri in a building once frequented by the
Movement for the Restoration of Ten Commandments of God. At least
153 bodies in Buhunga village were found hacked to death or
strangled including 59 children.
(SFC, 3/25/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 27, In Uganda laborers
unearthed 73 bodies at Rugazi associated with the Movement for the
Restoration of Ten Commandments of God. [see Mar 28]
(SFC, 3/28/00, p.A10)
2000 Mar 28, In Rugazi, Uganda,
28 bodies were found under the floor of the home of Dominic
Kataribabo, leader of the Movement for the Restoration of Ten
Commandments. This brought the total dead to at least 591.
(SFC, 3/29/00, p.A15)
2000 Mar 29, The doomsday sect
body count reached 644.
(SFC, 3/30/00, p.A19)
2000 Mar 30, 80 more bodies
were unearthed in Rushojwa. This brought the doomsday sect body
count to 724.
(SFC, 3/31/00, p.A16)
2000 Mar 31, Police revised the
number of deaths linked to the doomsday cult to 924.
(SFC, 4/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Apr 6, Authorities issued
6 arrest warrants for the prominent figures of the doomsday sect:
Joseph Kibwetere, Credonia Mwerinde, Dominic Kataribabo, Joseph
Kasapurari, John Kamagara, and Ursula Komuhangi. All were charged
with 10 counts of murder, representing the first 10 identified
victims of 924 corpses.
(SFC, 4/7/00, p.A16)
2000 Apr 27, Workers in Ggaba,
a residential area south of Kampala, exhumed the bodies of 55 more
people associated with the Movement for the Restoration of Ten
Commandments. Total deaths stood at 979.
(SFC, 4/28/00, p.D2)
2000 May 5, In Congo Ugandan
and Rwandan troops clashed at Kisangani and at least 10 civilians
were killed and 100 wounded.
(SFC, 5/6/00, p.C1)
2000 May 19, Scientists led by
Robert Gallo announced plans for an oral AIDS vaccine to be tested
in Uganda for less than $1 per dose. Trials might begin within 18
months.
(SFC, 5/20/00, p.A1)
2000 May, Helen Akongo (27) was
awarded the Amnesty Int’l. Ginetta Sagan Award in San Francisco for
her work to help child fighters return to a normal life. She was
featured in the documentary “Soldier Child” by Neil Abramson.
(SFC, 5/19/00, p.A18)
2000 Jun 11, In Congo Rwandan
troops drove Ugandan forces from Kisangani to end a week of
indiscriminate shelling.
(SFC, 6/12/00, p.A13)
2000 Jun, Some 9 million
Arabica coffee trees were destroyed by tracheomycosis, the fungal
coffee wilt disease.
(SFC, 6/10/00, p.A24)
2000 Jul 11, Rival clans of the
Karamojong tribe clashed and 63 cattle herders were killed.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.D2)
2000 Aug 16, At least 18 people
died after a fire ignited while they scooped oil from an overturned
tanker.
(SFC, 8/17/00, p.A16)
2000 Sep 15, The chimpanzee
population was estimated at about 3,000 and declining due to
refugees from Congo eating small apes.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.D2)
2000 Oct 14, It was reported
that at least 35 people of the northern Gulu district had died in
recent weeks of a hemorrhagic fever possibly caused by the Ebola or
Marburg virus.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A16)(SFC, 10/18/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 22, Death from the
Ebola fever climbed to 54 as health officials continued a village by
village search for people with contact to the virus.
(SFC, 10/23/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 12, Uganda confirmed a
new case of Ebola in Masindi, the 3rd district to confirm the deadly
virus.
(SFC, 11/13/00, p.A14)
2000 Dec 5, Dr. Matthew
Lokwiya, who diagnosed the Ebola outbreak 2 months earlier, died
from the disease.
(WSJ, 12/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 8, The victims with
Ebola reached 400 including 160 dead.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A18)
2001 Jan 15, In East Africa the
presidents of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda formed a regional
partnership, reviving one that collapsed in 1978.
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.A10)
2001 Jan 23, A hospital
released its last Ebola patient. 426 people contracted the disease
since October and 173 died.
(WSJ, 1/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 12, Elections were
held. Pres. Museveni (56) was challenged by Kizza Besigye (44), a
retired army colonel. Vote-rigging charges marred the elections.
Museveni won with 69.3% to Besigye’s 27.8%. Reports were made that
12 million ballots were counted with only 10.6 million registered to
vote.
(SSFC, 3/11/01, p.D4)(WSJ, 3/13/01, p.A1)(SFC,
3/14/01, p.C12)(SFC, 3/15/01, p.A13)
2001 Mar 27, Rebels ambushed
students on a field trip to Murchison Falls and killed 11 people.
(SFC, 3/28/01, p.D4)
2001 cApr 29, Pres. Museveni
withdrew from a peace pact in anger over a UN report on plundering.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 May 27, Sec. of State
Colin Powell stopped in Uganda and urged the government of Sudan to
halt bombing in southern towns and to stop interfering with the
delivery of emergency assistance to victims of drought and war.
(SFC, 5/28/01, p.B12)
2001 Jun 11, An AIDS training
center for African doctors was opened in Kampala.
(SFC, 6/12/01, p.A9)
2001 Jun 15, Villagers in
northeast Aru, accused of being witches, began to get hacked to
death. Some 200 people were killed over the next 3 weeks.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A18)
2001 Jun 26, In Uganda poll
violence left at least 7 people dead.
(WSJ, 6/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 17, Col. Kizza Besigye
left Uganda and claimed that his life was threatened for criticism
of Pres. Museveni.
(SFC, 8/29/01, p.A9)
2001 Sep 2, Namibia confirmed
that it had pulled all its troops from all of Congo except the
capital. Uganda said it had pulled 6 of 10 battalions.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Dec 9, In Uganda a
gasoline truck crash killed 58 people near Iganga. Many of the
victims had tried to gather up fuel when it ignited.
(WSJ, 12/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec, The World Bank
approved $175 million in financing for the construction of a $550
million power project on the Nile River in Uganda by AES Corp. of
Arlington, Va. The African Development Bank was to provide an
additional $55 million. Some $370 million in loans were suspended in
June, 2002, over an alleged 1999 bribe to an Ugandan official.
(WSJ, 7/3/02, p.A4)
2002 Mar, Uganda and the
Sudanese government in Khartoum reached an agreement to allow forces
into southern Sudan.
(SFC, 5/16/02, p.A11)
2002 Mar, Ugandan forces in
“Operation Iron Fist” pursued the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) into
southern Sudan, where the rebels killed at least 470 villagers.
(WSJ, 5/13/02, p.A1)(SFC, 5/16/02, p.A11)
2002 Apr, Uganda and Sudan
restored diplomatic relations.
(SFC, 5/16/02, p.A11)
2002 May, Uganda began to fear
that too much Western assistance might damage its economy by pushing
up the value of its shilling. The phenomenon is called Dutch Disease
because decades ago massive oil revenues in the Netherlands
unsettled the exchange rates and left exports less competitive.
(WSJ, 5/29/02, p.A4)
2002 Jun 6, Ugandan troops
killed 67 rebels in a battle inside southern Sudan as part of a
continuing offensive to wipe out the 15-year old rebel group.
(AP, 6/6/02)
2002 Jun 8, Uganda police
reported that more than three dozen people were feared drowned after
a wooden boat capsized in Lake Victoria..
(AP, 6/9/02)
2002 Jun 27, In Uganda
guerrillas of the Lord’s Resistance Army killed 7 rangers at
Murchison Falls Nat’l. Park and abducted at least 10 others.
(SFC, 6/29/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 18, In western Uganda
a fuel truck and a bus collided, killing more than 60 people in a
fiery explosion near Lutoto.
(AP, 7/19/02)(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A16)
2002 Jul 24, In northern Uganda
a group of Lord's Resistance Army rebels entered Muchwini, 285 miles
north of Kampala, and killed at least 42 people.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Aug 5, In northern Uganda
rebels overran a camp for Sudanese refugees, killing an undetermined
number of people and destroying equipment and supplies. Authorities
have found 30 more bodies at a refugee camp attacked and burned by
rebels in northern Uganda, bringing the death toll to 55.
(AP, 8/5/02)(AP, 8/7/02)
2002 Aug 11, In southwestern
Uganda a minibus and a fuel tanker collided near Omukabale, killing
at least 17 people and injuring two others.
(AP, 8/12/02)
2002 Aug 15, Uganda has agreed
to withdraw its troops from neighboring Congo, where they were sent
four years ago to support Congolese rebels and root out Ugandan
insurgents.
(AP, 8/16/02)
2002 Aug 28, The United Nations
confirmed that Uganda and Zimbabwe have begun their pledged troop
withdrawals from Congo.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2002 Oct 21, A UN panel accused
criminal groups linked to the armies of Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe and
Congo of plundering Congo's riches, and called on the United Nations
to impose financial restrictions on 29 companies and 54 individuals.
(AP, 10/21/02)
2002 Nov 13, Rebels in northern
Uganda attacked three villages, hacking and clubbing nine people to
death.
(AP, 11/15/02)
2002 Dec, In Uganda Nile
Breweries, owned by SABMiller began selling a new kind of clear
lager-like beer called Eagle. Industrial enzymes were used to
convert starches in sorghum to sugars. It sold well and expanded to
other countries in the region.
(Econ, 7/12/03, p.59)(Econ, 9/9/06, p.61)
2003 Jan 7, In northeastern
Uganda rival tribesmen armed with spears and guns clashed over
cattle, leaving at least 52 people dead in two days of fighting. At
least 35 Pokot and 17 Karamojong were killed.
(AP, 1/10/03)
2003 Jan 12, In northeastern
Uganda clashes erupted when Pian tribesmen attacked Bokora tribesmen
in a bid to steal their cattle. 2 days of fighting left at least 30
people dead.
(AP, 1/15/03)
2003 Mar 2, In northern
Uganda rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army fighting a 16-year war
called a cease-fire and asked to meet Pres. Yoweri Museveni.
(AP, 3/3/03)
2003 Mar 3, In
northern Uganda a military firing squad executed 3 soldiers who had
been convicted of murdering civilians.
(AP, 3/4/03)
2003 Mar 25, In Uganda a gang
of ivory poachers killed six adult elephants and one calf in a
"gruesome massacre" in Queen Elizabeth National Park. The poachers
used acid to remove the tusks.
(AP, 4/4/03)
2003 Apr 5, Uganda Army troops
killed at least 30 LRA rebels in the northern Pader and Gulu
districts, days after a three-week cease-fire expired.
(AP, 4/8/03)
2003 Apr 11, In Uganda hundreds
of Pokot tribesmen from Kenya attacked villages in eastern Uganda,
killing more than 30 people. Victims were members of the Sabiny
tribe.
(AP, 4/12/03)
2003 Apr 23, In northern Uganda
rebels waging a 16-year insurgency attacked two villages and
abducted more than 180 people.
(AP, 4/24/03)
2003 Jun 14, In eastern Uganda
a minivan bus plunged into a swamp and sank, killing 18 passengers.
(AP, 6/15/03)
2003 Jul 11, Pres. Bush met
with Pres. Yoweri Museveni in Uganda. Bush and his wife Laura
praised Uganda's aggressive prevention and treatment programs to
combat HIV.
(SFC, 7/11/03, p.A8)(AP, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 23, In Uganda 2
passenger boats capsized in strong winds and rough waters on Lake
Albert, and more than 20 people were believed to have drowned.
(AP, 7/24/03)
2003 Aug 16, In north central
Uganda rebels from the shadowy Lord's Resistance Army slashed up to
15 people to death with machetes during an attack on the village of
Bata. They also made off with 40 children. All the people killed
were formerly abductees who had been rescued. The army said the next
day it had killed 20 rebel fighters and rescued 127 abducted
children.
(AP, 8/17/03)
2003 Aug 16, Former Ugandan
dictator Idi Amin, blamed for the murder of tens of thousands of his
people in the 1970s, died in a Saudi hospital where he had been
critically ill for weeks. In 2006 the film “The Last King of
Scotland,” was adopted from a novel by Giles Foden that focused on
Idi Amin. The film, directed by Kevin McDonald, featured
Forest Whitaker as Amin.
(AP,
8/16/03)(www.moreorless.au.com/killers/amin.html)(WSJ, 9/29/06,
p.W1)
2003 Aug 16, It was reported
that African swine fever (ASF) had killed half of the pigs in Uganda
this year.
(SFC, 8/16/03, p.A24)
2003 Sep 2, In northeastern
Uganda rebels shot or clubbed to death 25 people on a bus and then
set the vehicle ablaze.
(AP, 9/2/03)
2003 Sep 22, In Uganda a
speeding bus plowed head-on into a truck loaded with relief food
destined for Burundi, killing 46 people and injuring 33 others.
(AP, 9/22/03)
2003 Sep 27, In northeast
Uganda rebels of the LRA fighting a 17-year insurgency raided a
village, killing at least 22 people.
(AP, 9/28/03)
2003 Oct 9, In northeastern
Uganda rebels attacked a refugee camp, killing 15 people, including
four guards.
(AP, 10/9/03)
2003 Oct 30, In northeastern
Uganda soldiers clashed with rebels, killing 33 insurgents in three
separate battles over the last 2 days. 3 soldiers were killed.
(AP, 10/31/03)
2003 Nov 8, Rebels in northern
Uganda killed more than 100 civilians in raids over the last five
days. The Lord's Resistance Army raided villages in Lira district.
(AP, 11/10/03)
2004 Feb 2, In western Uganda a
boat overloaded with passengers and cargo capsized in stormy weather
on Lake Albert and more than 40 people were feared drowned.
(AP, 2/3/04)
2004 Feb 5, Ugandan rebels
attacked a refugee camp in northern Uganda early, killing 54
civilians and two soldiers.
(AP, 2/6/04)
2004 Feb 14, In Uganda a tanker
truck carrying diesel fuel collided with a packed minibus and burst
into flames, killing at least 32 people.
(AP, 2/15/04)
2004 Feb 18, In northern Uganda
government soldiers backed by helicopter gunships attacked a group
of rebels in a remote village, killing 36 insurgents.
(AP, 2/19/04)
2004 Feb 21, In northern Uganda
LRA rebels attacked a refugee camp, torching homes and gunning
people down as they fled. At least 192 people were killed, some
perishing in the flames of their own homes.
(AP, 2/22/04)(WSJ, 6/28/04, p.A10)
2004 Feb 25, In northern Uganda
massive street protests after a massacre by rebels turned violent,
with mobs beating rival tribesmen and burning houses and police
shooting into the crowd. At least nine people were killed.
(AP, 2/25/04)
2004 Mar 18, In northwestern
Uganda unidentified gunmen raided and looted a college and killed
two American missionaries and a Ugandan student.
(AP, 3/19/04)
2004 Mar 20, Uganda government
troops backed by helicopter gunships fought fierce battles with
rebels in northern Uganda, killing more than 50 insurgents.
(AP, 3/21/04)
2004 May 16, In Uganda rebels
killed 22 civilians during a raid on a Gulu district camp set up for
refugees.
(AP, 5/22/04)
2004 May 20, In Uganda rebels
raided the northern village of Gulu, hacking and burning to death at
least 25 people, including eight children.
(AP, 5/22/04)
2004 May 21, African finance
ministers began a two-day meeting in Uganda to discuss how their
governments can do more to reduce trade imbalances with rich
nations.
(AP, 5/21/04)
2004 Jun 25-27, Ugandan rebels
(LRA) in southern Sudan unleashed a two-day campaign of arson,
looting and murder, killing 100 villagers and forcing 15,000 others
to flee their homes.
(AP, 7/9/04)
2004 Jul 24, It was reported
that rebels fighting an 18-year insurgency in northern Uganda have
killed at least 42 civilians in southern Sudan in the past week.
(AP, 7/24/04)
2004 Jul 28, The Ugandan army
reportedly killed 120 rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters
during clashes in southern Sudan and narrowly missed capturing
Joseph Kony, the insurgents' leader.
(AP, 7/29/04)
2004 Sep 8, It was reported
that some 60 hippos had died of unknown causes over the last 2
months in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park.
(SFC, 9/8/04, p.A6)
2004 Sep 18, Ugandan helicopter
gunships and ground troops attacked a rebel hideout in southern
Sudan, killing at least 25 insurgents and capturing seven others.
(AP, 9/19/04)
2004 Dec 13, In Uganda a boat
carrying dozens of traders across Lake Albert capsized, killing at
least 22 people.
(AP, 12/14/04)
2004 Dec 17, It was reported
that the AIDS drug nevirapine failed to meet int’l. standards in
Uganda. The drug was used to protect babies from HIV infection, but
that infected women could develop resistance.
(SFC, 12/17/04, p.A23)
2005 Jan 1, Uganda President
Yoweri Museveni said the army will resume all-out war on rebels in
northern Uganda, charging that the insurgents rejected a cease-fire
deal that had been expected to open the way for political talks on
ending the 18-year civil war.
(AP, 1/1/05)
2005 Apr, Sudan and Uganda
mounted their 1st joint military operations against the Lord’s
Resistance Army (LRA).
(Econ, 5/7/05, p.41)
2005 May 5, In northern Uganda
rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army attacked villagers tending
their fields, hacking to death at least 10 people and wounding some
14 others.
(AP, 5/5/05)
2005 Aug 10, Congolese Vice
President Azeria Ruberwa met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Ruberwa talked of his government's
concerns about 14 Congolese men, suspected of plotting a coup, who
were in Uganda. Rugunda said 8 men left before the expulsion order.
The other six were given 48 hours to leave.
(AP, 8/24/05)
2005 Aug 11, Uganda police
arrested Andrew Mwenda a day after the KFM radio station he works
for was shut down following threats from President Yoweri Museveni
to close media outlets that report conspiracies about the Garang's
death.
(AP, 8/12/05)
2005 Aug 18, In Uganda 222 MPs
voted in support at the third reading of the Constitution
(Amendment) (No.3) Bill, 2005, which seeks to remove presidential
term limits, among others. The number exceeded the required
two-thirds by 26 votes.
(www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/451331)
2005 Aug 24, The Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said it has suspended grants to Uganda
based on evidence of serious financial mismanagement.
(SFC, 8/25/05, p.A5)
2005 Aug 25, Rebels in northern
Uganda ambushed a truckload of civilians that included school
children and killed 7 people, prompting an army counterattack that
left three rebels dead.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Oct 6, A UN official said
the International Criminal Court in The Hague has issued arrest
warrants for Joseph Kony and 5 henchmen of the Lord's Resistance
Army (LRA), a Ugandan cult notorious for raping, maiming and killing
children.
(Reuters, 10/6/05)(Econ, 10/22/05, p.48)
2005 Oct 7, The Sudanese
government agreed for the first time to allow Ugandan troops to
pursue members of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in all
parts of southern Sudan.
(AP, 10/12/05)
2005 Oct 10, Apolo Milton Obote
(b.1924), former head of Uganda, died in South Africa. He led Uganda
from 1966-1971, when he was overthrown in a coup by Idi Amin, and
from 1980-1985 following disputed general elections.
(AFP, 10/11/05)
2005 Oct 14, A consortium led
by South Africa’s Sheltam Trade Close won the privatization bid for
the rail line linking Mombasa, Kenya, and Kampala, Uganda. Nicknamed
since 1895 as the “lunatic express,” it was renamed the Rift Valley
Railways.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.68)
2005 Oct 31, UN envoy Jan Pronk
condemned the killing of 2 deminers contracted to the United Nations
in southern Sudan in an ambush by suspected Ugandan rebels.
(AP, 10/31/05)
2005 Oct, Uganda
opposition leader Kizza Besigye, Pres. Museveni’s former doctor,
returned from exile to contest the presidency.
(Econ, 11/26/05, p.60)
2005 Nov 5, Collin Lee (67), a
British aid worker, was shot and killed when rebels from Uganda's
notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed him while on his way
to a southern Sudanese town.
(AP, 11/7/05)
2005 Nov 14, In Uganda
opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested and charged with
treason, which carries the death penalty, concealment of treason and
rape. His supporters rioted and clashed with security forces for two
days, leaving at least one man dead.
(AP, 11/18/05)
2005 Nov 23, Sudan and Uganda
said they have renewed a deal letting Ugandan troops pursue leaders
of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels deep into Sudanese
territory.
(AP, 11/23/05)
2005 Nov 30, In London
Uganda-born John Sentamu was enthroned as the first black archbishop
in the Church of England.
(AP, 11/30/05)
2005 Dec 19, The International
Court of Justice held Uganda responsible for the killing, torture
and cruel treatment of civilians in Congo from August 1998 to July
1999 and ordered reparations. Fighting in the region raged for three
more years and the armies withdrew only in June 2003, despite the
court's order in July 2000 to halt operations and safeguard
civilians.
(AP, 12/19/05)
2005 A leaked report on Uganda
for the World Bank said “Corruption has become a mechanism for
regime maintenance.”
(Econ, 7/2/05, p.44)
2006 Jan 2, Kizza Besigye,
Uganda's main opposition leader, was released on bail, and greeted
some 12,000 cheering supporters outside the courthouse where he is
on trial for charges he says were fabricated to keep him out of next
month's presidential election.
(AP, 1/2/06)
2006 Jan 23, Ugandan rebels
killed eight Guatemalan peacekeepers in Congo in an ambush near the
border with Sudan. The gunbattle also left 15 attackers dead.
(AP, 1/23/06)
2006 Feb 23, Ugandan voters
lined up to choose between a leader who has ruled for 20 years and
four challengers in the country's first multiparty elections in two
decades.
(AP, 2/23/06)
2006 Feb 25, Uganda’s election
commission declared that President Yoweri Museveni (62)
overwhelmingly won re-election in the first multiparty elections in
25 years. The national electoral commission counted ballots at each
polling station and immediately announced the results. Adding up
those results, the opposition and local media also produced a total
count starkly different from the official total. They suggested that
fraud was occurring at a national center where the total vote was
tallied. Museveni and his National Resistance Movement dominated
state-run radio and television and used state resources to campaign.
(AP, 2/25/06)
2006 Feb 28, Uganda's main
opposition party pledged to challenge President Yoweri Museveni's
re-election in court, charging that many people were barred from
voting and some returns were falsified.
(AP, 2/28/06)
2006 Mar 8, In Kampala, Uganda,
a church wall collapsed during a thunderstorm. 23 people were killed
and nearly 100 injured. A criminal investigation was launched the
next day.
(AP, 3/9/06)
2006 Mar 16, Uganda's army said
the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels had left a
south Sudanese hideout and joined his deputy in the jungles of
neighboring Congo.
(AP, 3/16/06)
2006 Mar 30, In Uganda a fire
destroyed a school dormitory in Kabarole where the children had been
reading by candlelight, killing at least 10 of the students.
(AP, 3/31/06)
2006 Apr 29, The UN said
reports of a Ugandan army incursion into Congo were "credible" after
peacekeepers conducted a verification mission in the remote
northeastern border region.
(Reuters, 4/29/06)
2006 Jun 23, Chinese PM Wen
Jiabao arrived in Uganda, the final leg of a seven-nation African
tour aimed at boosting ties and partnerships as well as shopping for
resources for his country's fast-expanding economy.
(AP, 6/23/06)
2006 Jun 28, A spokesman said
the UN Development Program has halted a voluntary disarmament
program in Uganda's troubled northeast amid new reports of rights
abuses by government troops in the region.
(AP, 6/28/06)
2006 Jul 16, Ugandan
negotiators at talks to end one of Africa's longest wars demanded on
that Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels disarm and hand over all
their weapons in order to receive amnesty.
(Reuters, 7/16/06)
2006 Jul 30, In eastern Uganda
a minibus that was speeding collided with a fuel truck killing 30
people.
(AP, 7/31/06)
2006 Aug 4, In Uganda Vincent
Otti, deputy leader of The Lord's Resistance Army, said his group
has declared a unilateral cease-fire, but government negotiators
said they have not yet agreed to peace.
(AP, 8/4/06)
2006 Aug 12, The Ugandan army
killed Raska Lukwiya, the third in command of the rebel Lord's
Resistance Army and war crimes fugitive, which could affect the
stalled south Sudan-mediated peace talks.
(AFP, 8/13/06)
2006 Aug 26, Officials said
Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army have signed a truce to
end a 19-year conflict that killed thousands of people.
(AP, 8/26/06)
2006 Aug 29, A cease-fire
between Uganda's government and the LRA, a shadowy rebel movement
that has terrorized this east African nation for nearly two decades,
went into effect.
(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Sep 11, A top Ugandan
rebel leader, Lord's Resistance Army deputy Vincent Otti, arrived at
a neutral camp in southern Sudan as part of a truce to end 19 years
of conflict with the government.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 12, Uganda extended a
September 12 deadline for the rebel Lord's Resistance Army to agree
to a peace deal or lose an amnesty offer for war crimes charges its
leaders face.
(AFP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 27, The Ugandan army
accused rebels of violating the increasingly fragile truce, which
was signed last month, by leaving neutral assembly points.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Uganda state media
reported that rebels have walked out of peace talks aimed at ending
a 19-year conflict in which thousands of civilians have died.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep, Uganda said boda-boda
drivers, an estimated 10,500 Kampala motorcycle taxis, must be off
the streets by January in advance of the Commonwealth summit with an
expected 5,000 delegates. The boda-boda drivers earned about $5 a
day, 5 times that of rural workers.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.50)
2006 Oct 15, Uganda's
government and the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group admitted
Sunday they had both violated their recent truce, raising fears the
deal to end one of Africa's longest wars may unravel.
(AP, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 21, Uganda's president
traveled to southern Sudan to bolster faltering talks between his
government and rebels aimed at ending a brutal 19-year conflict in
northern Uganda.
(AP, 10/21/06)
2006 Nov 6, Canada’s Heritage
Oil reported an oil find on the Ugandan side of Lake Albert.
(Econ, 8/25/07, p.45)(http://tinyurl.com/36dnbm)
2006 Nov 12, Jan Egeland, the
UN's top humanitarian official, helicoptered to a jungle clearing to
meet with Joseph Kony, a Ugandan rebel leader accused of war crimes,
but he failed to secure freedom for women and children held captive
by the insurgent group. Kony denied that his forces are holding
prisoners.
(AP, 11/12/06)
2006 Nov 30, The East African
Community (EAC) said Rwanda and Burundi have been accepted as
members, expanding the regional economic bloc to five nations. The
EAC previously grouped Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, which hoped to
transform the region into a political federation.
(AP, 11/30/06)
2006 Dec 5, A shell apparently
fired by Congolese troops fighting forces loyal to a dissident
general near the Ugandan border landed among a group of some 12,000
refugees in Uganda, killing at least seven.
(AFP, 12/6/06)
2006 Dec 6, A Ugandan army
spokesman said at least 12,000 refugees fleeing fighting in eastern
Congo DRC have crossed over the border into southwest Uganda.
(AP, 12/6/06)
2006 Dec 9, It was reported
that Lake Victoria, the greatest of Africa's Great Lakes and the
biggest freshwater body after Lake Superior, has dropped fast, at
least six feet in the past three years. The Uganda government cited
the outflow through two hydroelectric dams at Jinja as part of the
problem along with drought and rising temperatures. At 27,000 square
miles the lake matched size of Ireland.
(AP, 12/9/06)
2006 Dec 15, In Kenya 11
African heads of state attending the 2nd International Conference on
the Great Lakes Region signed a landmark $2 billion
(1.5-billion-euro) security and development pact to forestall fresh
violence in the area.
(AFP, 12/15/06)
2007 Jan 12, Ugandan rebels
pulled out of peace talks with the government, dealing a blow to
already faltering negotiations aimed at ending one of Africa's most
brutal conflicts.
(AP, 1/12/07)
2007 Jan 17, Alice Lakwena, a
Ugandan warrior priestess who led an insurgency in the 1980s, died
at a Kenyan refugee camp. She was known as Alice Auma and claimed to
have been possessed by a spirit called Lakwena, which gave her
spiritual powers to protect her fighters from bullets by anointing
them with oil. Her cousin, Joseph Kony, is the messianic leader of
the Lord's Resistance Army.
(AP, 1/18/07)(Econ, 1/27/07, p.87)
2007 Jan 22, In northern Uganda
a minibus with 21 people collided with a truck. The dead included 6
foreign missionaries, an American couple, a Dutch couple and two
Kenyans.
(Reuters, 1/23/07)
2007 Feb 12, Ugandan army raids
in the northeast allegedly killed up to 66 children who were shot or
crushed by armored vehicles and stampeding animals. Save the
Children later called for an independent, international
investigation into the reports.
(AP, 3/30/07)
2007 Feb 17, The film “The Last
King of Scotland,” adopted from a novel by Giles Foden, had its
official premier in Kampala, Uganda. The film, starring Forest
Whitaker and directed by Kevin McDonald, featured Whitaker as
former dictator Idi Amin.
(WSJ, 9/29/06, p.W1)(SSFC, 2/18/07, p.A22)
2007 Feb 18, A bus and a truck
carrying goods collided head-on in Uganda, killing 7 people and
injuring 20. Police said 2,000 Ugandans die in road accidents on
average each year.
(AP, 2/19/07)
2007 Feb 23, Uganda's army said
that 400 rebel Lord's Resistance Army fighters and their leaders
have moved into the Central African Republic, dashing hopes of a
renewal of stalled peace talks.
(AP, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 23, A Somali official
said Uganda's top military officials promised to help train a
national army for Somalia and help provide security for its
government.
(AP, 2/23/07)
2007 Feb 26, The World Vision
humanitarian group said that more than 50% of children in refugee
camps around Africa's volatile Great Lakes area have experienced
some form of sexual abuse. The data, collected in camps in the
Burundi, Congo (DRC), Tanzania, northern Uganda and Rwanda, said
widespread poverty made children vulnerable to abuses.
(AFP, 2/27/07)
2007 Mar 17, Half of Uganda’s
28 million population was reported to be under age 15.
(Econ, 3/17/07, p.50)
2007 Mar 31, In Somalia
artillery fire and mortar shells rained down on Mogadishu as
government troops and their Ethiopian allies continued a major
offensive to quash a growing insurgency by Islamic militants. A
Ugandan soldier was killed by artillery fire in Mogadishu, marking
the first death among African Union peacekeepers deployed here.
(AP, 3/31/07)(AFP, 4/1/07)
2007 Apr 5, A Ugandan court
scrapped the nation's adultery law, saying it was unconstitutional
and favored men.
(AP, 4/6/07)
2007 Apr 12, In Uganda
protesters stoned to death two people of Asian origin during a
demonstration against a Ugandan-Indian company that wants to grow
sugar cane in this country's largest natural forest. Two others were
also killed in the rioting.
(AP, 4/12/07)(WSJ, 4/13/07, p.A1)
2007 Apr 14, Uganda's
government and a rebel group responsible for one of Africa's longest
and most brutal wars signed a new truce and agreed to resume stalled
peace talks later this month. Joseph Kony, The elusive leader of the
rebel Lord's Resistance Army, witnessed the signing in Ri-Kwangba,
Sudan.
(AP, 4/15/07)
2007 Apr 18, Burundi, Rwanda,
the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda adopted a joint military
strategy to fight rebel groups operating in the war-scarred Great
Lakes region.
(AP, 4/19/07)
2007 May 16, In Somalia a
roadside bomb struck a convoy carrying African Union peacekeepers,
killing four Ugandan peacekeepers in one of the deadliest attacks on
the troops since they arrived in March.
(AP, 5/16/07)
2007 Jul 14, A miner (29) died
in western Uganda from the deadly Marburg virus, first discovered in
1967.
(Econ, 8/18/07, p.40)
2007 Jul, Rwanda and Burundi
became members of the East African Community (EAC), which included
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
(AP, 11/17/07)(Econ, 9/5/09, p.52)
2007 Aug 3, In Uganda gunmen on
Lake Albert attacked a boat operated by Canada's Heritage Oil Corp.,
killing a British contractor. 3 armed patrol boats from Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), on the other side of the lake, had opened
fire on Heritage's boat.
(AP, 8/3/07)
2007 Aug 11, A security
official said disarmament has finally started in south Sudan's state
of Eastern Equatoria under a 2005 peace deal now it has been made
possible by the departure of Ugandan rebels.
(Reuters, 8/12/07)
2007 Aug 16, Uganda announced
plans to send 250 extra soldiers to a peacekeeping mission in
Mogadishu, but Somalia's government warned they were not enough and
urged other African nations to commit troops.
(Reuters, 8/16/07)
2007 Aug 21, Hundreds of people
held an anti-gay protest in Uganda's capital, denouncing what they
called an "immoral" lifestyle and demanding the deportation of an
American journalist writing about gay rights in the deeply
conservative country.
(AP, 8/21/07)
2007 Aug 26, In eastern Uganda
a truck carrying soldiers and their families overturned, killing 72
people and injuring 40 others.
(AP, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 28, Africa's Great
Lakes nations (Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and
Uganda) vowed to eliminate rebel groups roaming their territory and
spurring insecurity in the continent's most volatile region.
(AFP, 8/28/07)
2007 Sep 4, Rangers and 300
villagers abandoned a gorilla reserve in eastern Congo as government
soldiers battled troops loyal to a renegade general in sections of
Virunga park. The UN said ten thousand Congolese refugees have fled
to neighboring Uganda following clashes between the Congolese army
and renegade troops in its eastern provinces.
(Reuters, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 8, Congo and Uganda
signed an agreement to immediately move refugee camps 93 miles from
their shared border to improve security.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 14, Authorities in
Uganda said the heaviest rainfall in 35 years has displaced 150,000
people since August with at least 9 reported deaths. 400,000 people
were said to have lost their livelihoods.
(SFC, 9/15/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 20, Uganda declared a
state of emergency in the worst flood-affected areas of the country
as humanitarian workers tried to reach villages that have been cut
off by water.
(AP, 9/20/07)
2007 Sep 21, The Red Cross
warned that a massive aid effort is needed to cope with floods in 18
countries across Africa that have already affected at least 1.5
million people and killed at least 270 in Ghana, Kenya, Somalia,
Sudan, Togo, Uganda and other countries.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 24, Two Congolese
troops and a Ugandan soldier were killed in clashes on the
flashpoint border of Lake Albert where oil was recently discovered.
Six civilians were killed when Ugandan soldiers opened fire on a
Congolese passenger boat on Lake Albert.
(AFP, 9/25/07)(Reuters, 9/25/07)
2007 Oct 14, Opiyo Makasi,
reported to be an operations and logistics commander of Uganda's
Lord's Resistance Army, gave himself up along with his wife and they
were transferred to Kinshasa, DRC. On Oct 25 Congolese authorities
handed him to the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo (MONUC), which
should prepare his eventual return to Uganda.
(AP, 10/23/07)(AP, 10/25/07)
2007 Nov 14, The EU reached an
accord with the East African Community (EAC) states of Burundi,
Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. They will enjoy duty free, quota
free access to the EU for all products, except sugar and rice, from
January 1. Originally established in 1967, the EAC collapsed a
decade later amid diverging economic philosophies. It was
resurrected in 2000 as Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda agreed to create
an EU-style common market for their 90 million citizens. Rwanda and
Burundi became members in July this year.
(AP, 11/17/07)(Econ, 9/5/09, p.52)
2007 Nov 22, A committee of the
53-nation Commonwealth, meeting in Uganda, suspended Pakistan from
the organization for failing to end emergency rule.
(AP, 11/22/07)
2007 Nov 23, In Uganda
presidents and prime ministers from Britain and its former colonies
discussed democracy, human rights and the rule of law at the start
of a Commonwealth summit. They were presented with the new report:
“Civil Paths to Peace: Report of the Commonwealth Commission on
Respect and Understanding,” while police and anti-government
protesters clashed nearby.
(AP, 11/23/07)(Econ, 11/10/07, p.74)
2007 Nov 25, In Uganda
Commonwealth leaders called on Pakistan to remain engaged with the
group as they wrapped up a summit here that saw the suspension of
President Pervez Musharraf's country.
(AP, 11/25/07)
2007 Nov 29, In Uganda a senior
Ministry of Health official said an Ebola outbreak has killed at
least 16 people out of 51 confirmed cases. The first case was
reported Nov. 10 in Bundibugyo district, 210 miles west of the
capital, Kampala. Uganda last had an outbreak of Ebola in October
2000, when 173 people died. A new form of the Ebola virus was
detected in the outbreak. The death toll soon climbed to 21,
including 8 doctors and health workers.
(AP, 11/29/07)(AP, 11/30/07)(Reuters,
12/1/07)(SFC, 12/8/07, p.B6)
2007 Dec 14, Diplomats from the
Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda met in Kampala to discuss
border tensions that have triggered deadly clashes on one of
Africa's hottest frontiers in the search for oil. The UN said rival
factions in Congo are forcibly recruiting hundreds of children and
sending them to fight on the front lines of an escalating conflict
in the east of the country.
(AP, 12/14/07)(AP, 12/15/07)
2007 Dec 19, Uganda's military
said it had shot dead two Congolese soldiers on the volatile border
between the two countries, after they tried to resist being arrested
on suspicion of raping two teenage girls.
(Reuters, 12/19/07)
2007 Dec, In Uganda Andrew
Mwenda launched The Independent magazine and focused on uncovering
official corruption. By early 2009 he and his staff had been
arrested or detained over a dozen times and was forced to print at a
secret location.
(SSFC, 2/1/09, Par. p.10)
2007 Uganda began construction
of the $860 Million Bujagali Dam for hydroelectric power from Lake
Victoria water. About 55% of lower water levels on Lake Victoria
were attributed dams built by the Ugandan government. This severely
impacted farmers fishermen in adjoining Kenya and Tanzania as well
as Uganda.
(SFC, 6/24/08, p.A14)
2008 Feb 4, Ugandan rebels from
the Lord's Resistance Army killed 136 people and looted property
during an attack in and around Kajo-Keji in southern Sudan. In March
officials said Sudanese renegades frustrated with not being absorbed
into the military -- and not Ugandan rebels initially suspected --
were behind the attacks in south Sudan.
(AFP, 2/8/08)(AFP, 3/15/08)
2008 Mar 4, Ugandan troops
clashed with rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army inside
neighboring Sudan.
(AFP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 19, Uganda said that
Lord's Resistance Army rebel leader Joseph Kony has left his base in
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and moved to the Central
African Republic.
(AP, 3/19/08)
2008 Apr 15, In Uganda a fire
tore through a primary school dormitory overnight, killing 19 girls
and two adults. Police said that the blaze may have been
deliberately set.
(AP, 4/15/08)
2008 May 16, London-based
Tullow Oil Plc announced the discovery of oil reserves in western
Uganda, boosting hopes for the energy-starved east African nation.
(AFP, 5/16/08)
2008 May 28, In Sudan a Ugandan
policeman serving with the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force
in the western Darfur region was found dead riddled with bullets.
(AFP, 5/29/08)
2008 Jun 4-2008 Jun 5, In South
Sudan more than 20 people were killed, including soldiers and
several children, in Ugandan rebel attacks near the border with
Congo. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) guerrillas had targeted the
villages of Nabanga and Yamba.
(AFP, 6/7/08)
2008 Jul 16, The United States
signed a pair of agreements to boost trade and investment ties with
countries in southern and eastern Africa. These included the Trade,
Investment and Development Cooperation Agreement with the Southern
Africa Customs Union (SACU), which includes Botswana, Lesotho,
Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland; and the Trade Investment and
Framework Agreement (TIFA) with the East African Community, which
includes Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
(Reuters, 7/17/08)
2008 Aug, The Baganda people of
Uganda numbered about 5 million of the country’s 31 million people.
(Econ, 7/26/08, p.57)
2008 Sep 22, Unicef said
Ugandan rebels kidnapped 90 children in eastern Congo and that
fighting has forced 100,000 people to flee the area.
(WSJ, 9/23/08, p.A1)
2008 Oct 7, The UN refugee
agency said at least 5,000 people have fled violence in northeastern
Congo and sought shelter in neighboring Sudan over the last two
weeks due to ferocious attacks by rebels of the Lord's Resistance
Army from neighboring Uganda.
(AP, 10/7/08)
2008 Oct 14, The UN said
intense fighting between the Congolese army and Ugandan rebels have
forced over 50,000 people to flee their homes in the north-eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ituri region.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 16, The European
Commission announced 15 million euros (20 million dollars) of
emergency food aid for victims of drought and soaring food prices in
five east African countries. The biggest share will go to Ethiopia
and Somalia and smaller amounts to Kenya, Uganda and Djibouti.
(AFP, 10/16/08)
2008 Oct 17, The UN added
Japan, Austria, Turkey, Mexico and Uganda as members to the 10
non-permanent seats of the Security Council, replacing Belgium,
Indonesia, Italy, Panama and South Africa.
(AP, 10/17/08)
2008 Oct 22, Leaders from three
African trading blocs, accounting for more than half the continent's
industrial output, met in the Ugandan capital, to push for a single
market. Six heads of state and foreign ministers from 26 countries
of the East African Community, Common Market for Eastern and
Southern Africa (COMESA) and Southern Africa Development Community
gathered in Kampala for a Tripartite Summit.
(AFP, 10/22/08)
2008 Oct 30, Laurent Nkunda,
the rebel general besieging Congo's eastern provincial capital Goma,
said he wants direct talks with the government about ending fighting
in the region and his objections to a $5 billion deal that gives
China access to the country's vast mineral riches in exchange for a
railway and highway. Nkunda said he sent a letter to the UN
peacekeeping mission in Goma saying he will set up an "urgent
humanitarian corridor" for refugees and humanitarian aid. Refugees
have continued fleeing the war-torn eastern province for
neighbouring Uganda.
(AP, 10/30/08)(AFP, 10/30/08)
2008 Nov 1, Tutsi-led rebels
tightened their hold on newly seized swaths of eastern Congo,
forcing tens of thousands of frightened, rain-soaked civilians out
of makeshift refugee camps and stopping some from fleeing to
government-held territory. Congolese soldiers killed nine fighters
from Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) after 30-50 rebels
attacked a village in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo.
(AP, 11/2/08)(AFP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 17, The Kenya Wildlife
Service (KWS) said a ton of ivory items and 57 suspects were netted
in a four-month operation billed Africa's largest-ever crackdown on
wildlife crime. Operation Baba also seized cheetah, leopard, serval
cat and python skins as well as hippo teeth at several markets,
airports and border crossings in Congo Brazzaville, Ghana, Kenya,
Uganda and Zambia.
(AFP, 11/17/08)
2008 Nov 27, More than 10,000
Congolese civilians fled to Uganda in a matter of hours to escape
renewed fighting.
(AP, 11/27/08)
2008 Dec 14, Uganda, southern
Sudan and Congo launched an offensive against the Lord's Resistance
Army bases based in eastern Congo in an attempt to end one of the
continent's longest and most brutal wars.
(AP, 12/15/08)
2009 Jan 2, Ugandan Lord's
Resistance Army rebels killed two wildlife rangers and six other
people in a remote national park in northeastern Congo.
(AP, 1/6/09)
2009 Jan 16, In eastern Congo
the leader of a splinter rebel faction said his forces would stop
fighting the government and the two sides would work together to
battle Rwandan militias at the heart of the conflict. Ugandan
rebels, according to the UN, massacred 100 civilians in Tora, a
village in northeast Congo, the latest atrocity blamed on the
insurgents.
(AP, 1/16/09)(AP, 1/29/09)
2009 Mar 9, In Uganda a cargo
plane carrying equipment for African Union peacekeepers in Somalia
caught fire and crashed into Uganda's Lake Victoria shortly after
takeoff, killing all 11 people on board.
(AP, 3/9/09)
2009 Mar 13, In Uganda a
building collapsed in the capital, Kampala, when nearby construction
loosened the foundation. At least five people were killed and dozens
remained trapped under the rubble.
(AP, 3/13/09)
2009 Mar 15, Uganda began
withdrawing troops hunting brutal Lord's Resistance Army rebels in
neighboring Congo after the deadline for them to leave expired.
Felix Kulaigye, a Ugandan military spokesman, said the operation had
been a success, with around 100 rebels killed and more than 200
abductees rescued, and that Congo would continue the hunt.
(AP, 3/15/09)
2009 Mar, In CongoDRC Thomas
Kwoyelo, a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, was captured in
Garamba forest. In 2011 he faced a charges in Uganda.
(AFP, 7/11/11)
2009 Jun 26, A UN official said
Ugandan rebels this year have killed around 1,200 Congolese
civilians and abducted 1,500, mostly children, in a remote region of
northeast Congo.
(AP, 6/26/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Sudan gunmen
kidnapped an Irish and Ugandan women from the office of the Irish
aid group Goal in the North Darfur city of Kutum. A Sudanese
watchman was also seized before being released later. Arab tribes
supported by the government were implicated. Sharon Commins (33) and
her Ugandan colleague, Hilda Kuwuki (42), were released on Oct 18.
(AFP, 7/4/09)(AP, 10/18/09)(AFP, 10/24/09)
2009 Jul 13, Uganda said it
would arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he enters the
country, an unusual stance after a summit of African leaders
denounced the international arrest warrant against al-Bashir.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Aug 1, Humanitarian groups
said members of the Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group,
have launched attacks against towns in the Central African Republic
that have left at least 10 people dead in the last two weeks. The
attacks by the LRA, launched from its rear bases in the Democratic
Republic of Congo, have also forced hundreds of people to flee their
villages.
(AFP, 8/2/09)
2009 Sep 8, Uganda’s defense
spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Felix Kulayigye, said Ugandan troops
have crossed into the neighboring Central African Republic (CAR) in
pursuit of Lord's Resistance Army rebels with Bangui's blessing.
(AFP, 9/8/09)
2009 Sep 9, A Uganda army
spokesman said government forces have rescued 100 kidnapped children
and young adults during an operation against the Lord’s Resistance
Army rebel group in neighboring Central African Republic.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 10, In Uganda at least
7 people were killed in clashes after the government prevented a
representative of the traditional ruler of the Buganda kingdom from
traveling to a region northeast of the capital for a political
rally.
(SFC, 9/11/09, p.A2)
2009 Sep 11, In Uganda 3 people
including a child were shot dead in rioting in Kampala. Clashes
began on Sep 10 after the government prevented a representative of
the traditional ruler of the Buganda kingdom from traveling to a
region northeast of the capital for a political rally. The overall
death toll from the unrest rose to at least 24 following deaths in
hospitals.
(AP, 9/11/09)(AP, 9/12/09)(AP, 9/14/09)(Econ,
9/19/09, p.59)
2009 Sep 12, Uganda’s army
killed five rebels in the CAR, including Arit Santos, a commander of
the LRA insurgent group. Soldiers also seized 24 sub-machineguns,
several rounds of ammunition, medicine and laptop computers in the
operation.
(AFP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 17, Ugandan cricket
authorities said Six Ugandan cricketers are missing in Canada after
playing in a qualifying tournament for next year's World Cup.
(AP, 9/17/09)
2009 Oct 5, Police in Uganda
arrested Idelphonse Nizeyimana, one of the most wanted suspects from
Rwanda's 1994 genocide. The former army captain and senior
intelligence officer and others prepared lists of Tutsi
intellectuals and those in authority before handing the lists to
troops and militia who then killed them.
(Reuters, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 18, In Sudan Irish
national Sharon Commins and Ugandan Hilda Kawuki, who worked for
Irish charity GOAL, were freed. They had been kidnapped on July 3 at
gunpoint. The Irish Times newspaper reported on Oct 24 that a
150,000-euro (225,000-dollar) ransom was paid to secure the release
of two aid workers in the western Darfur region.
(AFP, 10/24/09)
2009 Oct 19, In Uganda Pres.
Museveni officially recognized the 300,000 strong Rwenzururu Kingdom
under Charles Wesley Mumbere (56), who had inherited the title in
1966 at age 13. Museveni restored all the traditional kingdoms
abandoned in 1967. Mumbere, who had moved to the USA in 1984 on a
government scholarship, worked as a nurse’s aide in Maryland and
Pennsylvania.
(SFC, 10/20/09, p.A4)
2009 Oct 22, African leaders
started a 2-day summit in Kampala, Uganda, aiming to ratify the
Convention on the Protection and Assistance of the Displaced People
in Africa, now numbering about 17 million.
(AFP, 10/22/09)
2009 Oct 23, African leaders,
meeting in Uganda, ratified a convention on the protection of the
continent's internally-displaced people, refugees and returnees,
billed as the first of its kind worldwide.
(AFP, 10/23/09)
2009 Oct 23, Somali Islamist
rebels threatened to attack the capitals of Burundi and Uganda, the
two central African countries that have deployed peacekeeping troops
to prop up Somali's transitional government.
(AFP, 10/23/09)
2009 Nov 3, Senior Lord's
Resistance Army commander Charles Arop, who was implicated in
leading a massacre on Christmas Day that killed at least 143
Congolese, surrendered to the Ugandan military stationed in the
northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
(AFP, 11/5/09)
2009 Nov 13, Uganda’s army
clashed with tribesmen who were stealing cattle in the volatile
northeastern region. Two soldiers were wounded and 15 cows were
killed in two clashes on Nov. 13 and Nov. 17. The army killed 34
tribesmen in the clashes.
(AP, 11/21/09)
2009 Nov 15, India's Essar
Group, and energy-to-steel conglomerate, said it has agreed to buy a
majority stake in Dhabi Group's telecommunication businesses in
African nations Uganda and Congo.
(Reuters, 11/15/09)
2009 Nov 17, Ugandan forces
shot and killed Okello Okutti, a senior commander of the rebel
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), during a clash in Obo, near the
Central African Republic's eastern border with Sudan.
(AFP, 11/19/09)
2009 Nov 18, In Uganda a new 12
million dollar family planning drive was launched in Kampala
highlighting how Obama administration funding has revamped a
contraception drive in Africa and developing states. Uganda,
Ethiopia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Kenya will share in the
12-million dollar funding, but international organizations still
have to persuade certain African governments that it is in their
interest to curb population growth.
(AFP, 11/18/09)
2009 Nov 20, In Tanzania
members of the East Africa Community (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda,
Tanzania, Uganda) signed a common market agreement in Arusha,
headquarters of the EAC.
(http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/21/content_12513712.htm)
2009 Nov 30, Interpol and the
Kenya Wildlife Service said African authorities over the last 3
months had raided shops, intercepted vehicles at checkpoints and
used sniffer dogs to detect and seize over 3,800 pounds (1,768kg) of
illegal elephant ivory in a six-nation operation. This involved the
wildlife authorities, police and customs departments of Burundi,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
(AP, 11/30/09)
2009 Dec 10, Uganda's
parliament approved a bill banning female genital mutilation.
(AP, 12/11/09)
2009 Dec 17, Oxfam said some
areas of East Africa had received less than 5% of the normal
November rains and that many people are malnourished in Uganda,
Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. It was the sixth failed rainy
season for war-ravaged Somalia and the worst drought there for 20
years. The European Commission announced that it would immediately
release an extra $75 million to fund emergency relief for
drought-stricken areas of East Africa. It estimated that 16 million
people will need aid in the coming months.
(AP, 12/17/09)
2009 Dec 21, The UN accused the
Ugandan-based Lord's Resistance Army of killing, mutilating and
raping villagers in Sudan and Congo in what may have been crimes
against humanity.
(AP, 12/21/09)
2009 Dec 31, The Ugandan
government said it was investigating the breakaway Catholic
Apostolic National Church in Uganda and would ban it if found to be
illegal. 20 renegade Catholic priests, who are either married or
want to marry, have broken from the mainstream Roman Catholic Church
and formed a new church where celibacy is not required. Vatican
officials said the priests were now considered "outside" the
Catholic Church and would likely be excommunicated.
(AP, 12/31/09)
2009 Uganda’s population stood
at about 33 million people.
(Econ, 11/14/09, p.60)
2010 Jan 1, Ugandan troops
killed Bok Abudema, a leader of the Lord's Resistance Army,
effectively the number two of the brutal militia, in the Central
African Republic.
(AFP, 1/2/10)
2010 Mar 2, In Uganda overnight
landslides in the mountainous region of Bududa buried three villages
and killed at least 92 people with 250 still missing.
(AP, 3/2/10)(AP, 3/3/10)
2010 Mar 17, Ugandan security
forces fatally shot three people in the capital during clashes with
rioters angry after the tombs of five traditional kings were
destroyed overnight by fire. On March 30 man turned himself saying a
vision told him the tombs were Satanic.
(AP, 3/17/10)(AP, 3/31/10)
2010 Mar 21, In the eastern
Central African Republic Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels
killed at least 10 civilians in the village of Agoumar, including a
woman burnt alive. One LRA rebel was killed by the villagers.
(Reuters, 3/22/10)(AFP, 3/30/10)
2010 Mar 28, In Central Africa
LRA elements were chased by the Ugandan army, which killed at least
15 rebels in the village of Dembia. More than 40 people were
abducted from the three villages including in Bangassou, where about
400 people had taken refuge from the fighting.
(AFP, 3/30/10)
2010 Apr 1, In Uganda a
presidential adviser said more than 5,000 people whose lips and ears
were cut off by rebels waging a more than 20-year insurgency in
northern Uganda will receive compensation from the government.
(AP, 4/1/10)
2010 May 13, The UN General
Assembly approved all 14 candidates for the 14 seats on the
47-member Human Rights Council. Human rights groups criticized the
poor human rights records 7 of the candidates: Angola, Libya,
Malaysia, Mauritania, Qatar, Thailand and Uganda.
(SFC, 5/14/10, p.A2)
2010 May 14, Four African
countries (Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda) signed a new treaty
on the equitable sharing of the Nile waters despite strong
opposition from Egypt and Sudan, who have the lion's share of the
river waters. The new agreement, the Nile Basin Cooperative
Framework, is to replace a 1959 accord between Egypt and Sudan that
gives them control of more than 90 percent of the water flow.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit warned at the weekend
that Cairo's water rights were a "red line" and threatened legal
action if a partial deal is reached.
(AFP, 5/14/10)
2010 May 24, Pres. Obama signed
into law the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda
Recovery Act.
(Econ, 11/13/10, p.58)(www.enoughproject.org/LRA)
2010 May 31, UN chief Ban
Ki-moon called for African nations to cooperate with the
International Criminal Court by arresting fugitive Ugandan rebel
Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, and some of his
commanders.
(AP, 5/31/10)
2010 Jun 15, A Uganda army
spokesman said at least 10 Ugandan soldiers were killed last month
while pursuing Lord's Resistance Army rebels in the Central African
Republic (CAR). Lt. Colonel Felix Kulayigye said an unknown Sudanese
militia, not the LRA, was the likely culprit.
(AFP, 6/15/10)
2010 Jun 29, Uganda’s
Lieutenant Colonel Felix Kulayigye confirmed the ADF are attacking a
Congolese town called Mutwanga and have killed 16 civilians. The
Allied Democratic Forces, a group that claims it is fighting for
equality for Muslims, battled Ugandan forces in country's Rwenzori
region near the DRC, with the heaviest fighting occurring between
1996 and 2001.
(AFP, 6/29/10)
2010 Jun 29, Congolese Gen.
Amuli Bahigwa said the army has killed 80 rebels from neighboring
Rwanda and Uganda who crossed into volatile eastern Congo. Bahigwa
said the army killed the rebels in an operation that started June 1.
He said four soldiers were killed and that Ugandan rebels killed
eight civilians.
(AP, 6/29/10)
2010 Jul 11, In Uganda twin
bombings in Kampala hit crowds watching the World Cup final killing
76 people. One of the targets was an Ethiopian restaurant, a nation
despised by Somali al-Shabab militants. On July 30 three were
charged with terrorism and murder. By Aug 17 had officials charged
32 people in connection with the bombings. One suspect, Haruna
Luyima, was supposed to set off a bomb at the dance club but changed
his mind at the last minute. Luyima told a news conference in August
that he did so because he didn't want to kill innocent people.
Police later found his discarded mobile phone, a huge lead that
helped unravel the plot.
(AP, 7/12/10)(AP, 7/30/10)(SFC, 8/18/10,
p.A2)(AP, 10/8/10)
2010 Jul 12, In Uganda
investigators found an unexploded suicide vest with ball bearings in
a disco hall in Kampala, suggesting that militants had planned a
third bombing during the World Cup final. Four foreign suspects were
arrested in connection with the find.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 19, In Uganda the
African Union summit opened in Kampala amid heightened security
following twin bomb attacks a week earlier.
(AP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 20, Uganda's
government defended the forced repatriation of 1,700 Rwandan
refugees, action that the UN refugee agency condemned for being
heavy-handed. Two people died while trying to escape the roundup.
The Rwandans were forced out of Uganda on July 14 because they had
no refugee status and had become a security risk.
(AP, 7/20/10)
2010 Jul 21, Ugandan police
said 10 people died after a boat they were traveling in capsized on
the Ugandan side of Lake Victoria.
(AP, 7/21/10)
2010 Jul 24, Ugandan forces
imposed tight security in the capital as more than 30 heads of state
began converging on Kampala for an African Union summit barely two
weeks after deadly suicide attacks. The African Union said Africa
must turn ever more to China for its development because conditions
and checks often stalled the flow of funds from Western nations and
the World Bank.
(AFP, 7/24/10)(Reuters, 7/24/10)
2010 Jul 25, Uganda's
president urged African Union leaders at a summit in Kampala to
"sweep the terrorists" out of Africa.
(AP, 7/25/10)
2010 Jul 27, In Uganda African
Union leaders wrapping up a three-day summit in Kampala agreed to
send thousands of extra troops to reinforce its military contingent
battling Al Qaeda-linked insurgents in Somalia.
(AFP, 7/27/10)
2010 Jul 29, Ugandan officials
said an anthrax outbreak has killed 82 hippos in the last month and
a half.
(AP, 7/29/10)
2010 Jul 31, In Uganda more
than 50 people died after a boat they were traveling in capsized on
Lake Albert. The boat was carrying between 70 and 80 people, but
only five survivors have been found and 17 bodies recovered.
(AP, 8/2/10)
2010 Aug 12, Human Rights Watch
group said Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels have abducted 697
people in central Africa in the past 18 months, killing at least 255
of them.
(AP, 8/12/10)
2010 Aug 25, A Ugandan court
scrapped sedition legislation used to prosecute over a dozen
journalists and politicians.
(AP, 8/25/10)
2010 Aug 26, Interpol said
police have seized about 10 metric tons of counterfeit medicines and
arrested 80 people in a sweep across eastern Africa. Authorities
across Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar took
part in the bust.
(Reuters, 8/26/10)
2010 Sep 3, In Accra, Ghana,
Standard Bank Africa announced at an agricultural forum a 100
million dollar scheme to reach some 750,000 small scale farmers in
Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda in a bid to boost output.
(AFP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 11, In Sudan a rare
three-day meeting of 30 religious and community leaders as well as
local government officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC), south Sudan, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Uganda
criticized the "lack of a coordinated and comprehensive strategy" to
tackle the LRA rebels.
(AFP, 9/11/10)
2010 Sep 15, Uganda police
arrested Al-Amin Kimathi of the Kenyan Muslim Human Rights Forum and
lawyer Mbugua Mureithi as they arrived to attend the hearing of 34
people charged for allegedly taking part in the July 11 bomb
attacks, that targeted large groups gathered to watch the televised
World Cup final. Uganda's police said the two were with a wanted
al-Shabab militant that police had been trailing for days before the
arrests.
(AP, 9/17/10)
2010 Oct 1, The UN released its
545-page report into mass killings in Congo over a ten-year period.
Rwanda and Uganda insisted the $3 million report is flawed and could
harm security in Africa's volatile Great Lakes region.
(AP, 10/1/10)
2010 Oct 6, Ugandan President
Yoweri Museveni called for financial support to increase his
country's troop levels in the African Union force in Somalia.
(AFP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 24, In northern Uganda
a bus collided with a truck killing 21 people.
(SFC, 10/25/10, p.A2)
2010 Nov 1, In Uganda a
controversial newspaper in Kampala published photos, names and home
addresses of gay Ugandans, the second time the paper has done so,
prompting a rights group to seek a legal injunction against the
publication.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 29, Uganda launched a
program to circumcise over a million men every year in an effort to
stem AIDS infections.
(SFC, 11/30/10, p.A2)
2010 Some 100,000 Twa pygmies
remained in the Great Lakes region of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and
CongoDRC. Most of them were barred from their ancestral forests
including the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, which was turned into a
national park in 1991.
(Econ, 9/25/10, SR p.11)
2011 Jan 22, In western Uganda
15 people died after a bus lost control when it hit a cow on the
road and rammed into an oncoming truck.
(AP, 1/22/11)
2011 Jan 26, In Uganda David
Kato, a prominent gay rights activist whose picture was published by
an anti-gay newspaper next to the words "Hang Them," was bludgeoned
to death. Police said that his sexual orientation had nothing to do
with the killing and that one "robber" had been arrested. On Nov 10
Enoch Nsubuga (22) was sentenced to 30 years in jail for the brutal
slaying. Nsubuga claimed that he had been reacting to unwanted
demands for sex.
(AP, 1/27/11)(Econ, 2/12/11, p.96)(AFP, 11/11/11)
2011 Jan, Tanzania arrested
Mohamed Mohamed of Kenya for his role in the July 11, 2010, bombings
that killed 76 people in the Ugandan capital Kampala. In 2011
Tanzania’s Kisutu court granted an application to extradite the
suspect to Uganda to face justice.
(AP, 7/2/11)
2011 Feb 18, Uganda held
elections. Pres. Yoweri Museveni (67) won with a huge lead over his
nearest rival, Kizza Besigye, extending his 25-year hold on power
for another 5 years. Museveni got 68% of the vote. Besigye got 26%
of the vote and rejected the results as marred by fraud. Museveni
had handed out envelopes of cash to peasants, teachers and local
officials up and down the country.
(AP, 2/19/11)(SFC, 2/21/11, p.A2)(Econ, 2/26/11,
p.53)
2011 Mar 1, The UN Refugee
Agency said the Uganda-based Lord’s Resistance Army has killed 35
people and displaced over 1700 since January.
(SFC, 3/2/11, p.A2)
2011 Mar 4, Two Nairobi-based
diplomats said at least 43 Burundian and 10 Ugandan troops have been
killed in Somalia since Feb. 18. A major offensive against Islamist
militants began on Feb 19.
(AP, 3/4/11)
2011 Mar 9, Uganda police
scuffled with protesters in the capital, Kampala, and tear gas was
used. 10 demonstrators and several police were injured. 8
demonstrators were arrested.
(AP, 3/9/11)
2011 Mar 23, A report by Human
Rights Watch said Uganda’s Rapid Response Unit, a branch of the
police service, has engaged in torture, illegal detention and
extrajudicial killings.
(SFC, 3/24/11, p.A5)
2011 Apr 11, In Uganda Kizza
Besigye, the top opposition politician was arrested, along with
several members of parliament, during a march to protest high fuel
and food prices. The police called it an illegal demonstration.
(AP, 4/14/11)
2011 Apr 14, Uganda’s military
police officers shot Kizza Besigye, the top opposition politician,
in the right hand and fired tear gas into a hospital as
demonstrations against rising fuel and food prices broke out in
several locations across the country.
(AP, 4/14/11)
2011 Apr 18, Uganda police
battled protesters for the third time in a week and again arrested
the country's top opposition politician. One protester died after
being tear gassed.
(AP, 4/18/11)
2011 Apr 21, Ugandan opposition
leader Kizza Besigye was detained on charges relating to a fourth
round of protests against high prices that left two police officers
and one child dead. A Ugandan court on Aug. 9 dropped two cases
against Besigye for his anti-government protests.
(Reuters, 4/21/11)(AFP, 8/9/11)
2011 Apr 29, Ugandan army
troops and police fired live bullets at rioting demonstrators, and
at least two people were killed and 120 wounded in the largest
anti-government protest in sub-Saharan Africa this year.
Demonstrations over the last three weeks left eight people dead and
wounded more than 250 others.
(AP, 4/29/11)(AP, 5/1/11)
2011 May 4, In Uganda some 300
lawyers gathered in Kampala to protest the arrest of the country's
top opposition leader and a crackdown on demonstrations.
(AP, 5/4/11)
2011 May 9, In Uganda hundreds
of women demonstrated in Kampala over high food prices and brutal
tactics employed by police during recent political rallies.
(AP, 5/9/11)
2011 May 12, Uganda police
sprayed tear gas at rock-throwing opposition supporters, after the
country's top opposition leader returned home and while the 25-year
leader was sworn in to a fourth term.
(AP, 5/12/11)
2011 May 19, Ugandan police
placed the country's top opposition leader under house arrest to
prevent what authorities said could be a destructive protest march.
(AP, 5/19/11)
2011 Jun 28, In Uganda 18
students and a teacher died after lightning struck their school in
the country's midwest. In the past few weeks, lightning strikes
around the country have killed at least 34 people.
(AP, 6/29/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Uganda a
motorized canoe left Panyimur on the Ugandan side of the 20-km-wide
Lake Albert with 31 passengers aboard. It sank as it approached
Mahagi on the Congolese side. In northeastern Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) 30 people were missing and one was rescued when a
motorized boat sank on Lake Albert.
(AFP, 7/5/11)(AFP, 7/6/11)
2011 Jul 11, Uganda opened its
first war crimes trial against a commander of the Lord's Resistance
Army rebels. Thomas Kwoyelo (39) was charged before the
International Crimes Division court in the northern town of Gulu
with 53 counts of willful killing, hostage taking, destruction of
property and causing injury.
(AFP, 7/11/11)
2011 Jul 14, Human Rights Watch
said prisoners in Uganda are subjected to hard labor under
conditions resembling slavery and face routine abuse and
exploitation by officials.
(AFP, 7/14/11)
2011 Jul 29, President Yoweri
Museveni of Uganda began a four-day visit to neighboring Rwanda and
met with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame upon arrival. Media in
both countries had reported that relations were strained over
reports that Ugandan security operatives had met with two former
senior Rwandan military officers who now oppose Kagame.
(AFP, 7/31/11)
2011 Jul 31, In Uganda a huge
fire gutted the largest market in central Kampala destroying
merchandise worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Much of the
Owino market was destroyed by fire in 2009.
(AFP, 7/31/11)
2011 Jul 18, A team of Ugandan
and French paleontologists found a 20-million-year-old ape skull in
northeastern Uganda, saying it could shed light on the region's
evolutionary history.
(AFP, 8/2/11)
2011 Aug 10, Ugandan opposition
leaders vowed to restart protests over rising living costs, as
security forces fired tear gas following a memorial to a child
killed in an earlier demonstration. Police fired rubber bullets and
teargas at protesters who followed Kizza Besigye, a top opposition
leader, in a march in Masaka.
(AFP, 8/10/11)(AP, 8/11/11)
2011 Aug 29, In eastern
Uganda landslides killed at least 40 people, including children
buried in their homes in Mabono village. Two weeks ago seven people
were killed by landslides in the northeastern Karamoja region.
(AP, 8/29/11)(AP, 8/30/11)
2011 Sep 14, In Uganda Edris
Nsubuga and Muhamoud Mugisha were convicted of terrorism a day after
they admitted to charges of terrorism and conspiracy for their roles
in the July 11, 2010, bombing in Kampala that left 76 people dead.
12 others remained on trial. On Sep 16 Nsubuga was sentenced to 25
years in prison. Mugisha was sentenced to 5 years.
(AFP, 9/14/11)(AP, 9/16/11)
2011 Sep 22, Uganda's highest
court ordered that Thomas Kwoyelo (39), a commander of the Lord's
Resistance Army rebellion, should be granted amnesty and released,
ending the country's first war crimes trial. Kwoyelo was blamed for
brutal civilian murders during a 20-year war in the north of the
country, and was charged in July with 53 counts of willful killing,
hostage taking, destruction of property and causing injury.
(AFP, 9/22/11)
2011 Sep 22, Aid agency Oxfam
said in a report that at least 22,500 Ugandans have been forced from
their homes to make way for New Forests Company, a British timber
company founded in 2004, and called for an investigation into
alleged abuses. The evictions stopped in July 2010.
(AFP, 9/22/11)
2011 Oct 2, Uganda’s first gay
bar, the Sappho Islands, was padlocked by the landlord, who said the
bar was noisy and attracted "strange" people.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 3, Uganda’s former
vice president, Gilbert Bukenya (2003-2011), was taken to Luzira
prison on the outskirts of Kampala. He was accused of fraudulently
awarding a $2 million contract in 2007. He has denied the
allegations.
(AP, 10/3/11)
2011 Oct 12, Ugandan President
Yoweri Museveni rejected corruption claims after lawmakers put a
freeze on new oil contracts over claims that government ministers
accepted bribes for tenders.
(AFP, 10/12/11)
2011 Oct 12, US troops arrived
in Uganda. On Oct 14 President Barack Obama announced he is
dispatching about 100 US troops, mostly special operations forces,
to central Africa to advise in the fight against the Lord's
Resistance Army, a guerrilla group accused of widespread atrocities
across several countries.
(AP, 10/15/11)
2011 Oct 13, Uganda charged
three top ruling party officials, including recently resigned
foreign minister Sam Kutesa, with abuse of office on charges that
they allegedly misused funds meant for hosting the 2007 Commonwealth
summit.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 17, Uganda police
fired tear gas at protesters in Kampala demonstrating against high
food prices and corruption.
(SFC, 10/18/11, p.A2)
2011 Oct 29, In Somalia at
least 10 people died during an insurgent attack on an African Union
base in Mogadishu. Kenya said its troops will stay in southern
Somalia until Kenyans feel safe again, raising questions about
whether Kenya risks becoming bogged down in an open-ended occupation
of its war-ravaged neighbor. The Shebab claimed to have killed 80
Ugandan soldiers in the battle. A Shebab spokesman said American
citizen of Somali origin was said to have been one of the two
suicide bombers behind the twin attack.
(AP, 10/29/11)(AP, 10/30/11)
2011 Oct 31, Ugandan opposition
leader Kizza Besigye was arrested as he set off from his home with
around 20 supporters to walk the 14 km (seven miles) into Kampala's
center. Earlier this year he launched a "walk-to-work" protest over
high living costs.
(AFP, 10/31/11)
2011 Nov 1, Amnesty
International reported that Uganda's government and public officials
are placing illegitimate restrictions on freedom of expression.
Amnesty said that journalists, opposition politicians and activists
face arbitrary arrest, intimidation and politically motivated
criminal charges.
(AP, 11/1/11)
2011 Nov 3, Ugandan militiamen,
known as ADF-NALU, launched an overnight attack on a military base
in Mukakira, eastern Congo, in an attempt to free detained leaders.
Nine of the attackers were killed, along with two Congolese
soldiers.
(AP, 11/3/11)
2011 Nov 4, Uganda withdrew all
corruption charges against former vice-president Gilbert Bukenya,
ending one of the country's highest-profile graft cases. Bukenya,
who was sacked in May, was facing two charges of abuse of office and
one charge of fraud over accusations that he profited from a $3.7
million deal to supply vehicles for use in the 2007 Commonwealth
summit in Kampala.
(AFP, 11/4/11)
2011 Nov 11, Ugandan police
arrested George Kiberu (35), a taxi dispatcher, for “abusing the
presidency” after he built a pigsty out of old election posters
featuring images of Pres. Yoweri Museveni.
(SSFC, 11/13/11, p.A6)
2011 Nov 15, Ugandan traders
blockaded several streets in Kampala to protest at lengthening power
blackouts they say are crippling businesses around the country.
(AFP, 11/15/11)
2011 Nov 16, The presidents of
Kenya, Uganda and Somalia said the dual-fronted fight against
Islamist al-Shabab militants presents a "historic opportunity" to
restore stability in Somalia.
(AP, 11/16/11)
2011 Nov 24, Uganda ruled that
Heritage Oil must pay a $404 million tax bill, dismissing an appeal
by the UK-listed company. Heritage argues it is not liable to pay
tax in the country on the $1.45 billion sale last year of stakes in
two oil blocks in western Uganda to Anglo-Irish firm Tullow Oil.
Uganda in March allowed Tullow to sell two-thirds of its Uganda
interests to France's Total and China's CNOOC in a $2.9 billion
deal, after Tullow agreed to pay over $300 million as security
against Heritage's unpaid taxes.
(AFP, 11/24/11)
2011 Nov 29, China pledged more
than $2.3 million in military assistance to Uganda during a
high-profile visit to Kampala by Beijing's defense minister.
(AFP, 11/30/11)
2011 Uganda’s population stood
at about 34 million people.
(Econ, 9/24/11, p.72)
2012 Jan 13, Kenyan police
arrested 29 Ugandans suspected of seeking to join Islamist rebels in
Somalia.
(AFP, 1/15/12)
2012 Jan 24, Ugandan police
clashed with opposition supporters in Kampala after security forces
tried to detain opposition leader Kizza Besigye following a protest
rally over rising living costs.
(AFP, 1/24/12)
2012 Jan 24, Tanzanian police
freed Burundian opposition leader Alexis Sinduhije, who was arrested
two weeks ago in Dar es Salaam at Burundi's request. Sinduhije was
expelled to Uganda.
(AFP, 1/24/12)
2012 Feb 3, Uganda signed
production agreements with Anglo-Irish firm Tullow Oil, allowing the
company to finalize a long-delayed $2.9 billion asset sale to
France's Total and China's CNOOC.
(AFP, 2/3/12)
2012 Feb 9, Uganda said it will
set up a national oil company to handle commercial interests in its
emerging oil sector after the government tabled a long-delayed bill
in parliament.
(AFP, 2/9/12)
2012 Feb 14, Uganda officials
said they have seized nearly 360 pounds (162 kg) of ivory and other
animal parts and products that were being smuggled in and out of the
country. Officials said Chinese demand is behind the illegal trade
in endangered species and animal products.
(AP, 2/14/12)
2012 Feb 14, A Ugandan minister
raided and shut down a workshop run by homosexual rights activists
in Entebbe, days after a draconian anti-gay bill was reintroduced.
(AFP, 2/15/12)
2012 Feb 15, Hajah Noraihan,
the Malaysian consul to Uganda, said that more than 600 Ugandan
girls are currently trapped in Malaysian prostitution rings.
Uganda's honorary consul in Kuala Lumpur said that at least three
Ugandans have been killed there in the last two years.
(AP,
2/20/12)(http://allafrica.com/stories/201202150018.html)
2012 Feb 18, It was reported
that more than 3,000 children in northern Uganda are suffering from
a debilitating mystery ailment known as nodding disease. For several
years, scientists have tried and failed to determine the cause of
the illness. Scientists did not know if the disease is linked to
similar outbreaks in neighboring South Sudan and Tanzania.
(AFP, 2/18/12)
2012 Feb 18, In Uganda the body
of Jeff Rice, American television producer, was found at the Serena
hotel in Kampala. Police later said he died after taking
contaminated cocaine. His assistant, identified as Kathryne Fuller,
was found unconscious at the same time. By Feb 25 she was conscious
but paralyzed down the right hand side of her body.
(Reuters, 2/25/12)
2012 Feb 22, The top US special
operations commander for Africa said US troops helping in the
fight against a brutal rebel group called the Lord's Resistance Army
are now deployed in four Central African countries: Uganda, Congo,
South Sudan and Central African Republic.
(AP, 2/23/12)
2012 Mar 5, A marketing
campaign was launched by the Ugandan advocacy group Invisible
Children (www.kony2012.com) to vastly increase awareness about
Joseph Kony, a jungle militia leader wanted for atrocities by the
International Criminal Court and hunted by 100 US Special Forces
advisers and local troops. His Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was
operating in Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan.
(AP, 3/8/12)
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