Outbreak of Ebola in Uganda kills 13     An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has killed at least 13 people and infected a further seven in Uganda. The health ministry says emergency measures are in place to deal with the outbreak, which began in late June but has only just been confirmed as Ebola. The cases have been reported in Kibaale district, about 170km (100 miles) to the west of the capital Kampala. Officials say most are linked […]

Somali rescue operation frees 4 kidnapped foreign aid workers Somali government troops, together with Kenyan forces, rescued kidnapped foreign aid workers near the Somali town of Afmadow. Somali government troops, together with Kenyan Defense Force soldiers, rescued four foreign aid workers who had been kidnapped from an aid convoy near the world’s largest refugee complex at Dadaab, Kenya. The rescue occurred on Monday morning, following a tip from local Somalis, Somali officials told the Monitor. Government forces killed two of […]

Grenade attacks on two churches in Kenya town of Garissa Grenades have been thrown at two churches in the Kenyan town of Garissa, near the Somali border, police say. “Several people are feared to have been killed in the grenade attacks,” regional deputy police chief Philip Ndolo, told Reuters news agency. “The goons were clad in balaclavas and hurled the grenades at the Catholic Church and the AIC [African Inland Independent Church] in the town.” Kenyan soldiers deployed in Somalia […]

Kismaayo daily War Result Video: Bitter Root                 Two former Lord’s Resistance Army commanders seek tribal justice in order to be granted atonement for their crimes. Sunday Otto and Richard Odong were commanders in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda. They were responsible for the commission of numerous brutalities against an unarmed civilian population. Now back home in Gulu they have asked the Acholi tribal elders to implement Mato Oput, a traditional system of restorative justice involving perpetrators and […]

Uganda detains five Pakistanis over rebel ties Uganda has arrested five Pakistanis suspected of militant links, police said on Tuesday, two weeks before the second anniversary of a bombing attack in Kampala for which Somali Islamist rebel group al Shaabab claimed responsibility. Officials say the country is vulnerable to further attacks from al Shabaab who have vowed to keep striking until a Ugandan army contingent, leading an African Union-mandated force protecting Somalia’s government, withdraws. The area where the five men […]