Uganda

Kenyan police fire tear gas during protest against US Ebola quarantine facility

Two people were killed in protests last week in Nanyuki, and the US continues its activities defying Kenyan court orders.

Demonstrators gather near a barricade they created during a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya June 1, 2026.
 A health worker burns food waste of Ebola patients at an Ebola treatment center (ETC) in Katwa, near Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, October 5, 2019

Uganda should reconsider Congo border closure over Ebola, WHO's Tedros says

Demonstrators gather near a barricade they created during a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya June 1, 2026.

Two people killed in Kenya protest against US Ebola quarantine site plan, organizer, sources say

Medical teams in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 2026

Health Ministry officials meet to discuss, monitor ongoing Ebola outbreak


Israel plans to deport LGBT asylum seekers to Rwanda and Uganda

“LGBT people are not part of the groups excluded [from deportation],” a Border Authority spokesperson said. “Each case will be examined on its merits.”

AFRICAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS hold signs during a protest against the Israeli government’s plan to deport part of their community.

Meretz MKs on 'emergency trip' to Rwanda to check on deported migrants

“We came here to expose to the Israeli public one of the greatest injustices in the history of the State of Israel."

A general view of Rwanda's capital Kigali, March 26, 2014

Population and Immigration Authority threatened over migrant deportation

Red paint was splattered across the doorway to the downtown Tel Aviv office with notes that read “It will not pass quietly, it’s only the beginning,” and “Their blood is on your hands."

Severed heads and red paint are found outside the entrance the Ministry of Economy office in Tel Aviv, January 2018

Rwanda, Uganda deny deal with Israel to take in asylum seekers

"Fake news," one Rwandan diplomat said of the deal.

CHILDREN OF migrant workers play on a Tel Aviv beach on Independence Day, marking the 65th anniversary of the creation of the state last year.

An open wound: The heated debate surrounding circumcision

The medical benefits of circumcisions are not so convincing.

A ‘MOHEL’ holds a scalpel as he performs a circumcision

Largest-ever delegation of African parliamentary speakers head to Knesset

The visit comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Kenya this week, his third to Africa in the past year and a half.

Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Kenya, November 28, 2017.

A new Uganda plan: Emissaries to open first Chabad house in Kampala

In Kampala, there is no organized Jewish community, except for a synagogue and a school affiliated with the African community of Abayudaya, who keep certain Jewish customs and see themselves as Jews.

Rabbi Moishi and Yocheved Raskin will be moving to Kampala, Uganda, making it the 100th country with a permanent Chabad-Lubavitch presence.

The underpinnings of knowledge: Initiating an educational revolution

In the solar-powered classrooms, Ugandan pupils use Simbi technology in conjunction with micro computers loaded with 64 GB of educational materials, everything from Ted Talks to Khan Academy.

CHILDREN at the Hadassah Primary School welcome their new school bus. )

Jewish Ugandans on MASA gather pieces of Israel to take back home

Five members of Abayudaya community studying in Israel for 5 months.

Five Conservative converts from Uganda’s Abayudaya community who are studying in Israel

Netanyahu's alliance of the African periphery

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