KAMPALA, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Uganda's parliament on Thursday voted to approve the deployment of its military to the Gaza Strip, if it was needed as part of a multinational security force proposed under U.

Ugandan authorities sought and won parliamentary approval Thursday to deploy troops to Gaza as part of the international force proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace to secure the territory following the devastating Israel-Hamas war.

Andrew Bakira, who hails from Burunga Sub-County in Kazo District, was among 247 cadets commissioned during the ceremony

Uganda has maintained since the outset that its cases were linked to the larger outbreak in eastern Congo’s remote province of Ituri, which borders Uganda.

Uganda’s military has unveiled a monument to Yonatan Netanyahu, the older brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The country has managed to bring Bundibugyo virus transmission under control as the outbreak still rages in neighbouring DR Congo. Paul Adepoju reports.

The bus crashed Thursday night in the Kapchorwa District in eastern Uganda on the way back from the region’s Sipi Falls, the Uganda Police Force said in a statement posted on X.

Uganda discharged its last Ebola patient from hospital roughly two weeks ago.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned Uganda’s crackdown on dissent, which it said was creating a climate of fear in the East African nation.

Athletes from Uganda and Pakistan were reported ‘missing’ after failing to return home from 2026 Commonwealth Games.

A recent fight between the Anglican Church of Uganda and its breakaway faction, the Reformed Church of Uganda, has taken a new twist, with the former warning the latter to desist from misleading the members of the public by using its songs, vestments and other liturgical relics.