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On 11 July, 2010, suicide bombings were carried out against crowds watching a screening of 2010 FIFA World Cup Final match during the World Cup at two locations in Kampala. The attacks killed 74 people and wounded 70 more. Al-Shabaab, a jihadist Somali terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the attacks as retaliation for Ugandan support ...
[8] [6] Model-based simulations for Uganda suggest that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t has been lower than 1.0 since July 2021. [9] A 2021 study found that the Uganda government used the COVID-19 pandemic to increase repression of opposition areas in Uganda. [10]
Idi Amin was a brutal military ruler of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, who committed mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and cannibalism. He was ousted by Tanzania in 1979 and lived in exile until his death in 2003.
Joseph Kony is a notorious militant and founder of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a terrorist group that has committed atrocities in Uganda and other countries. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, but his whereabouts are unknown as of 2022.
The Entebbe raid or Operation Entebbe was a successful rescue operation by Israeli commandos of 102 hostages taken by Palestinian and German terrorists on an Air France flight in Uganda. The operation involved a long-range aerial assault, a firefight with Ugandan soldiers and a hostage crisis that led to the death of one commando and 45 Ugandan soldiers.
Credonia Mwerinde was a Ugandan religious leader who founded the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God with Joseph Kibweteere in 1989. She claimed to have visions of the Virgin Mary and predicted the apocalypse for 2000, when hundreds of her followers died in a mass suicide or murder.
Phiona Mutesi is a Ugandan chess player and the subject of a book and a film called Queen of Katwe. She grew up in a slum, learned chess from a Christian project, and became the first female titled player in Uganda.
Learn about the history of Uganda from prehistoric times to the present, including its colonial and post-colonial periods, its political and economic development, and its conflicts and challenges. Find out how Uganda became a republic, a dictatorship, and a war-torn country.