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.

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

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has commended Uganda’s response to an Ebola outbreak that has spread from neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while warning that continued vigilance and cross-border cooperation will be critical to ending transmission.

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

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.

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.

A collision between a passenger van operating as a commuter taxi and a truck carrying sand killed at least 14 people in Uganda, police said.

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.

Tanzania’s Minister of Energy, Deogratius Ndejembi, said the agreement is designed to capitalise on Tanga’s strategic location and existing energy transport infrastructure.