The first contingent of 109 troops of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) left Mogadishu on Friday, following an announcement by Uganda's army chief, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. The withdrawal is being carried out in phases and is expected to be completed in August 2027. Around 4,500 Ugandan troops are stationed in Somalia as part of the African Union mission (AUSSOM), as well as about 2,000 deployed under bilateral agreements. Uganda was the first African country to deploy troops to Somalia, under the African Union mission established in 2007 to help protect the country's transitional government from attacks by Islamist militants. Uganda's army said the withdrawal will mark the end of its 20-year peace and stabilization operations and permit the Somali Armed Forces to assume full responsibility for security in the country.
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Uganda has begun withdrawing its troops from Somalia, and the first contingent has already returned home. The withdrawal of all its forces, including those deployed under the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), is due to be completed by the close of 2027, days after the UN ended its political mission in Somalia.
All forces, including those under the African Union mission, will exit Somalia by the end of 2027 in the phased withdrawal Uganda has begun after nearly two decades of military involvement in the country.
Uganda has begun withdrawing its troops from Somalia after nearly two decades of military involvement in the country, according to the BBC. The withdrawal is being carried out in phases and is expected to be completed in August 2027.
Ugandan Vice President Jessica Alupo arrived in Moscow on Monday to attend the Russia-Africa summit, according to Sputnik; she will lead Uganda’s delegation to the Third Russia-Africa Summit scheduled for October 28–29 in Moscow, a top foreign affairs official said on Friday, according to New Vision.
The Ebola patient in Nigeria is a Swiss woman, the wife of a Swiss diplomat, who has not travelled to the epicentre of the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is believed to have contracted the virus while travelling with her husband in Uganda, the Swiss foreign ministry has said. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating whether the patient may have come into contact with an Ebola patient in Kenya, as both travelled from Uganda's Entebbe airport on October 3. The World Health Organization (WHO) said investigations were continuing to establish the likely source of infection for the Ebola patient in Nigeria.
The Swiss government said the Ebola patient in Nigeria, the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja, did not travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), contradicting accounts from Uganda, according to Reuters. Ugandan authorities have said the woman who fell ill in Nigeria had travelled to eastern Congo, where the outbreak was declared in mid-May and has since become the fastest-spreading on record.
The director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Jean Kaseya, called on Nigeria’s first confirmed Ebola patient to disclose her complete travel history and possible contacts during a recent visit to Uganda, to help health authorities establish how she contracted the virus. According to Kaseya, the patient was born in Uganda and lives in Abuja, and was in her home country when her husband, a diplomat, travelled to join her. In an interview with the BBC, he said her first symptoms appeared on October 6, when she sought a private hospital believing she had malaria, and that she was admitted on October 11. Nigeria’s health minister, Muhammad Pate, confirmed that the 42-year-old woman spent two and a half weeks in Kampala before returning to Abuja through Ethiopia, with a two-hour stopover in Addis Ababa.
Nigeria confirmed one imported case of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease in the Federal Capital Territory, becoming the fifth country to detect the virus since an outbreak was declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on May 15, 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. According to the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the patient is a woman with a recent travel history to Uganda. Her symptoms began on October 7, four days after her arrival in Nigeria; she sought care at a private health facility in Abuja on October 11, and a laboratory test confirmed the Bundibugyo virus on October 20. She is in isolation and receiving medical care. The ministry said 44 contacts had been identified and were being monitored.
Nigeria has confirmed one imported case of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease in the Federal Capital Territory, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The patient is a woman with a recent travel history to Uganda, and her symptoms began on 7 October, four days after her arrival in the country. According to the WHO, 44 contacts have been identified and are being monitored as efforts are intensified to find other people who may have been exposed.
Nigeria confirmed on Tuesday an Ebola case in a woman who recently arrived in the country from Uganda and is in isolation receiving treatment, while Uganda asked for her itinerary and clinical history, noting that she transited through Uganda in early October without symptoms, according to AllAfrica.
Robert Kabera, a former sergeant major in the Rwandan army who became an outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame, was found beheaded in neighbouring Uganda, the BBC reported. The remains of Kabera, who served in the Rwandan army before fleeing in 2020, were discovered on Saturday in a bush in the Kamengo area, according to the Associated Press, in text republished by CP24.
Leonie von Braun, senior trial lawyer at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and lead investigator in the Kony case, told France24 that the latest information indicates the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is still alive, active and present within the group, today on a much smaller scale than in the 2000s; given his age, he is probably not on the front lines of operations. In the Central African Republic, authorities report a resurgence of attacks in the east and southeast of the country, with at least 25 children abducted in several raids on villages, in attacks attributed to Kony's militia.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Uganda at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly for erecting a statue of his brother Yonatan at the place in Entebbe where he was killed, according to the speech transcript. The monument was unveiled on August 1 at Entebbe’s old terminal by Uganda’s military chief, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Associated Press (AP) reports. Netanyahu spoke on September 24 before a hall largely emptied by delegations walking out, according to Pulse Uganda.