Uganda
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Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied equatorial climate. As of 2024, it had a population of 45.9 million, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital and largest city, Kampala.
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Key people
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Idi Amin1925 – 2003President of Uganda (1971-1979)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Yoweri Musevenib. 1944President of Uganda since 1986Source: Wikidata (citizenship).jpg/330px-Zohran_Mamdani_05.25.25_(b).jpg)
Zohran Mamdanib. 1991Mayor of New York City since 2026Source: Wikidata (citizenship).jpg/330px-President_John_F._Kennedy_with_Prime_Minister_Milton_Obote_(cropped).jpg)
Milton Obote1925 – 2005President of Uganda (1966–1971; 1980–1985)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Joseph Konyb. 1961Ugandan Leader of the Lord's Resistance ArmySource: Wikidata (citizenship)
Everything that happened
- 19711971 Ugandan coup d'étatUgandaA military coup d'état overthrew the president of Uganda, Milton Obote, on 25 January 1971. It took place while Obote was attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Singapore, and was staged by Idi Amin, the commander of the Uganda Army at the time. For various reasons, relations between Obote and Amin—his army commander—had become insidiously strained.Source: Wikidata (country)
- 1978 – 1979Uganda–Tanzania WarUgandaThe Uganda–Tanzania War, known in Tanzania as the Kagera War (Swahili: Vita vya Kagera) and in Uganda as the 1979 Liberation War, was fought between Uganda and Tanzania from October 1978 until June 1979 and led to the overthrow of Ugandan President Idi Amin.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
- 2018Kivu Ebola epidemicDemocratic Republic of the CongoThe Kivu Ebola epidemic was an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) mainly in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and in other parts of Central Africa, from 2018 to 2020. Between 1 August 2018 and 25 June 2020 it resulted in 3,470 reported cases. The Kivu outbreak also affected Ituri Province, whose first case was confirmed on 13 August 2018.Source: Wikidata (country)