Uganda

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

Kenyan President William Ruto defended a US-backed Ebola quarantine facility at a military base after two people were killed during protests.

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

Health Ministry officials meet to discuss, monitor ongoing Ebola outbreak

Workers line up to disinfect their protective equipment at General Referral Hospital of Mongbwalu during the Ebola outbreak response in Mongbwalu, Ituri province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 20, 2026.

WHO reports 906 suspected cases and 223 suspected deaths from Bundibugyo strain of Ebola

A poster displaying Ebola emergency contact numbers is pinned to a tent at the Busunga border crossing between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Bundibugyo, on May 18, 2026.

Uganda confirms two more Ebola cases, bringing total to seven


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

The Jerusalem Post

National ceremony commemorates Operation Entebbe – 40 years later

The evening was especially symbolic for Netanyahu whose older brother Yonatan “Yoni” was killed while leading the Entebbe raid.

A police officer clears the way for rescued Air France hostages arriving in Tel Aviv after returning from Entebbe

Entebbe, leçon de courage

« Lorsque nous sommes déterminés à protéger notre peuple, aucun terroriste ne peut nous vaincre. Aucun lieu n’est inaccessible. Aucune opération n’est trop compliquée. »

Les otages libérés de retour en Israel