Tag Archives: Disaster

Kampala, Uganda | PPU| President Yoweri Museveni has urged Ugandans that have invaded, cultivated and settled in wetlands, forestry reserves, river banks and lake shores to leave them peacefully and save the country from disaster. The President was speaking at a public rally at Rushoroza Seed School in Kihihi sub-county in …

Beijing, China | AFP |  Chinese authorities launched a frantic search for around 100 people feared buried after a landslide smashed through a mountain village in southwest Sichuan province on Saturday, local authorities said. Some 40 homes in the village of Xinmo were swallowed by huge boulders after the side …

By Agencies Boat accident kills over 100 refugees on Lake Albert Two days after capsised on Lake Albert, the Uganda police marine department had retrieved 108 bodies. The ill-fated vessel which had been transporting Congolese refugees returning to their homeland capsised on Saturday March 22. «As many as 250 people …