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TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that an Israeli plane made a historic first flight over Sudan only two weeks after he met with the Arab state’s leader in Uganda.

Voice of America News (VOA) on Thursday published a fascinating article about how Ugandan dissidents are learning to evade surveillance technology sold to their repressive government by China’s Huawei telecom giant

Left-wing trolls have taken another swipe at Chick-fil-A, this time accusing the fast-food chain of supporting a supposed Ugandan law that reportedly seeks the death penalty to punish homosexual acts.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s administration announced on Thursday that it will resurrect a bill that punishes homosexuality with death.

China’s technologies giant Huawei, the largest telecommunications company in the world, is enabling digital authoritarianism in Africa by helping dictators spy on their opposition, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Thursday.

Locals in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), estimate that 5,000 people participated in a protest Thursday against mass killings by local militias seeking to cement control over natural resources in attacks significantly hindering international aid groups’ efforts to combat the Ebola virus.

Police in Uganda this week charged a musician turned Member of Parliament (MP) and political opposition leader Bobi Wine with trying “to annoy, alarm, or ridicule” the African country’s President Yoweri Museveni, BBC reported.

Police in Uganda arrested 30 local students and hospitalized at least 50 this week for allegedly engaging in a fight over a “botched love affair” between kids from different schools, the country’s Daily Monitor reports.

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Health Minister Oly Ilunga resigned from his post Monday after being removed as the head of the nation’s Ebola outbreak response, a move that followed Ilunga rejecting pressure to introduce a second Ebola vaccine into the population.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak currently ongoing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a “public health emergency of international concern” on Wednesday, urging more funding to stop the virus but warning against “travel restrictions” to prevent its spread.

The number of refugees fleeing into Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, or DR Congo) in the past month has doubled, increasing the flow of those leaving the Ebola-stricken Ituri and North Kivu provinces to hundreds a day, Voice of America reported on Monday.

A cleric who took a bus 125 miles south within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) tested positive for Ebola upon arriving in Goma, a city of one million on the border with Rwanda, on Sunday.

Uganda will import trial Ebola drugs after it documented several cases of the virus near its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country’s health minister announced on Tuesday.

Kenya identified a potential Ebola patient on Monday and Tanzania announced heightened security measures this weekend amid a growing Ebola outbreak that spilled over into Uganda from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last week, the second-worst outbreak of the virus on record.

Ugandan authorities this week repatriated the relatives of the two people known to have succumbed to the Ebola virus within its borders back to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa News reported this weekend.

Ugandan newspapers reported Thursday that three people quarantined under suspicions of carrying the Ebola virus escaped isolation, stoking fears that the virus will rapidly spread two days after Uganda confirmed its first case.

A five-year-old child in Uganda succumbed to the Ebola virus on Wednesday, marking the first cross-border lethal case of the disease since the outbreak began in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last year.

The predominantly American taxpayer-funded food-assistance wing of the United Nations — the World Food Program (WFP) — distributed food to Uganda contaminated with yeast, mold, bacteria, and potential carcinogens, preliminary findings from a probe revealed this week.

Uganda launched a campaign early this week to attract thousands of Chinese tourists amid concerns Beijing will seize some of the African country’s sovereign assets over its rising public debt fueled by the Asian giant’s Belt and Road Initiative.

An armed gang of four men ambushed a safari this week and reportedly kidnapped an American tourist and her local driver in Uganda’s popular Queen Elizabeth National Park, which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

A French pilot hailed for bravery during a hijacking drama targeting Jews on an Air France flight in 1976 has died aged 95.

A Ugandan origin woman living in Britain has been jailed for 11 years after her conviction under Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) laws.

A Ugandan origin woman has been found guilty of female genital mutilation (FGM), the first person in British legal history successfully tried under the nation’s FGM laws.

Cows’ tongues bound in wire with nails and used in a black magic spell to “silence the police and the doctors” were found in the freezer of a Ugandan woman accused of committing female genital mutilation against her three-year-old daughter, the Old Bailey has heard.

Contents: Burundi’s president Nkurunziza says Rwanda is no longer a partner but an enemy; Burundi orders the UN to close its human rights office in Burundi; Fears grow of a new Hutu-Tutsi war

Uganda graduated its first set of Mandarin language teachers on Thursday, equipped to teach in secondary (high) schools and supported by the Chinese government.

The United Nations issued a report on Wednesday that found torture, sexual violence, and extrajudicial murder rampant in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which not coincidentally is grappling with one of the worst Ebola outbreaks in history.

The much-feared spread of Ebola virus from rural regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to larger cities and across the border into neighboring countries may be coming to pass.

Contents: Ebola in DR Congo spreads southward to large cities; Uganda and South Sudan vaccinate health workers against Ebola

“It needed to convey the message of a mass exodus,” Candace Owens said of the artwork that would mark black America’s exit, or Blexit, from the “liberal plantation.”

The World Health Organization on Thursday warned of a “very serious situation” in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where efforts to contain an ebola outbreak are being hindered by fighting between numerous armed groups.

Protests swept across Uganda’s capital city of Kampala on Friday after police arrested two opposition lawmakers at the Entebbe airport while they attempted to travel to the United States for medical care.

Uganda imposed a “social media tax” on citizens beginning July 1, triggering protests from human rights groups throughout the week that the tax represented an attack on freedom of speech.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni claimed he is working for “low pay” as an argument for his citizens not to go on strike during a May Day speech on Tuesday.

The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) and the nation’s National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU) both issued statements this week protesting the African government’s plan to import 200 doctors from Cuba, taking jobs that would go to domestic Ugandan doctors and enriching the communist Castro regime.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has warned his citizens against the practice of fellatio, pointing out that the “mouth is for eating” rather than sexual activity.