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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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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