Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the capital Kampala, with the first confirmed patient dying from the disease on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday.

Uganda sought to dispel fears among HIV patients that a US aid freeze will interrupt treatment and promised that such programs will continue.

Ugandan health officials on Thursday confirmed a case of Ebola in the capital Kampala, in a nurse who sought care at a number of facilities.

Air quality monitors powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are being deployed in Uganda's capital city in efforts to drive down pollution-related illnesses, especially among vulnerable populations.

The Uganda and South Sudan governments have embarked on the construction of an electricity transmission line that will enable Uganda to export electricity from Karuma to Juba in South Sudan.

The Inspectorate of Government (IGG) has launched an investigation into the Uganda Land Commission in Kampala over allegations of fraud. The probe was sparked by numerous complaints from individuals who sold their land to the government through the Commission,

Uganda’s ministry of Health has confirmed a new outbreak of the Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (SVD) following the death of a male nurse at Mulago national referral hospital. Dr Diana Atwine, the ministry’s permanent secretary,

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Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in Kampala, its capital city, and the death of a nurse, the Ministry of Health says. The victim, who died on Wednesday at a Kampala hospital, was a 32-year-old man,

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday. It is the East African country's ninth outbreak since it recorded its first infection of the viral disease in 2000.

A Ugandan health official says a nurse in the capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the country's last outbreak ended in 2023.