Uganda has ordered the closure of its border with Congo, where suspected Ebola cases are surging. A local Ugandan task force gave the order on Wednesday.

KLM has cancelled flights to and from Entebbe airport near the Ugandan capital Kampala due to restrictions ​linked to an Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, the ‌Dutch airline said late on Friday.

A local Ebola task force made the decision to close the border after a rise in Ugandan health workers exposed to the virus by Congolese patients who crossed before the outbreak was declared on May 15.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been in power for 40 years. He was inaugurated Tuesday for a seventh consecutive five-year term. His son, Gen.

The trio was early Christian converts serving in the Buganda royal court during the final years of Kabaka Muteesa I and the early reign of Mwanga II

The sale forms part of Standard Chartered’s broader plan to leave wealth and retail operations in Botswana, Uganda and Zambia.

Since the deadly Ebola outbreak in the DRC, funeral rites of the deceased have been upended in order to reduce the spread of the virus, CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports.

Deep on the edge of Uganda's vast Budongo Forest Reserve, about 35 kilometres from Masindi town, lies a little-known chapter of World War II history. Hidden among towering trees and winding roads is the former Nyabyeya Polish Refugee Settlement,