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When rebels fleeing Ugandan forces collided on their truck (inset) at random on Tuesday night, David Barlow, 50, (left) and his wife Celia, 51 (right) were killed in a hail of bullets. According to reports, the couple were married just a few days ago in South Africa's Western Cape. Eric Alyai, a 40-year-old Ugandan, was also shot down before the attackers, who were believed to be part of the ISIS-linked Allied Democratic Force, set fire to the vehicle and fled. The bodies and the flaming wreckage were found in the west of Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park. Laura Farris, a Tory MP from Newbury, paid her respects to the couple today. "The whole community has been devastated by this horrific and incomprehensible attack on David and Celia Barlow while on their honeymoon,' she said, "it should have been one of their best times of their lives."

On their honeymoon in Africa, tributes have pour in for a parish councillor and his newlywed wife. David Barlow, 50, of Berkshire, and his South African wife Celia, 51, were shot dead while riding safari in a Ugandan national park just days after they were married. Allied Democratic Force (ADF), an ISIS-linked terror group in Uganda, claimed responsibility for the 'cowardly' assault in Queen Elizabeth National Park last night. Following terrorists fleeing Ugandan forces on Tuesday night, the couple were shot and killed along with their guide Eric Alyai, 40, who worked with Gorillas and Wildlife Safaris. President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has ordered his forces to track down those responsible for the 'cowardly act,' although the Foreign Office has advised against visiting the national park.

Ugandan officials will track down those responsible for the deaths of a safari guide and a couple who were honeymooning in Queen Elizabeth National Park in the East African nation, according to President Yoweri Museveni. 'It was a cowardly act on the part of the terrorists killing innocent civilians and tourists visiting Uganda on their honeymoon,' Museveni wrote in a post on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.' 'Of course, these criminals will live with their own bloodshed.' Last night, Ugandan officials have accused the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a faction that had previously linked to ISIS, of killing the couple, a South African and a British national, as well as their Ugandan driver. The group has been blamed for a number of massacres, including ones that have killed hundreds of schoolchildren and kidnapping foreign visitors.

A Ugandan man has been charged with 'aggravated homosexuality' and is now facing a potential death penalty under the country's new anti-LGBT policies. Uganda introduced one of the world's toughest LGBT legislation in May, defying pressure from Western governments and human rights groups. For the same-sex intercourse, it prescribes life in jail. In cases that have been deemed 'aggravated,' such as repeat indictments, homosexual sex that transmits terminal disease, or same-sex intercourse with a juvenile, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities, the death penalty can be used.

The violent Friday attack killed 42 people, many of whom were students, prompting security forces to step up patrols along the border with the turbulent eastern Congo. Selevest Mapoze, the mayor of Mpondwe-Lhubiha, was one of eight people injured in the attack, in which 38 students were killed, died overnight. The majority of the families have arrived to retrieve their bodies' from the morgue,' he said. The victims, in addition to the 38 students, include a school guard and three civilians. At least two of them, members of the same family, were buried on Sunday.

According to Mpondwe-Lhubiha Mayor Selevest Mapoze, Ugandan authorities have recovered the bodies of 41 students, one guard, and two members of the local community who were shot outside the school. After the attack on Friday night, an unknown number of people were taken by the rebels, who escaped across the porous border into Congo. The rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), who have been operating attacks in the turbulent eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for years and have links to the Islamic State party (ISI), according to police, who launched the assault on the border town of Mpondwe late Friday. Although some of the students suffered fatal burns when the rebels set fire to a dormitory, others were shot or hacked with machetes, Mr Mapoze said. The school, which is co-educational and privately owned, is located in Kasese, Uganda, about 1.2 miles from the DR Congo border. A dormitory was set on fire and a food store was looted.' So far, 25 bodies have been recovered from the school and transferred to Bwera Hospital (inset), according to police, adding that eight others were in critical condition.

According to locals and a Somali military commander, the militants sled a car loaded with explosives into the base in Bulo Marer, 120 kilometres (75 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu, sparking a gun fight. In a tweet on his official Twitter account late Saturday, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (pictured right) said, 'We discovered the lifeless bodies of 54 soldiers, including a commander.' The death, which is one of the highest since pro-government forces backed by the AU force known as ATMIS, launched an attack against Al-Shabaab last August. According to Al-Shabaab, which has been waging a deadly protest against Somalia's fragile central government for more than a decade, the attack was carried out by the government on May 26.

When the draconian bill was first introduced in March, the European Union, the United States, and the United Nations condemned it, but many in the East African country support the radical law. President Yoweri Museveni's version of the bill does not criminalize those who identify as LGBTQ. However, the new law, which has been voted as one of the world's toughest, also specifies the death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality,' which is defined as cases of sexual relations involving people HIV-infected with the disease.

Uganda's parliament passed a tough anti-LGBTQ+ bill on Tuesday that would authorize the death penalty for people found guilty of having gay sex when HIV positive. When it was first introduced in March, the European Union, the United States, and the United Nations condemned the bill heavily. However, despite President Yoweri Museveni's (pictured left)'s call to tone down the legislation, the new bill could result in capital punishment for so-called 'aggravated homosexuality.'

Just days after a controversial bill to ban all gay people was passed in parliament, Uganda's president had urged Africa to'save the world from homosexuality.' President Yoweri Museveni is expected to sign the controversial bill, which also has the death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality,' according to the newspaper. According to the new legislation, Ugandans will be barred from 'promoting and abetting' homosexuality, as well as planning to engage in same-sex relations, which human rights organisations have condemned as 'appalling'.

The bill was approved late on Tuesday within a packed parliamentary chamber, and after the House speaker had repeatedly warned that identifying those who opposed the bill was vital. Almost all of the 389 legislators present supported it. The east African nation is known for its intolerance of homosexuality, which was outlawed under colonial-era laws. After Amnesty International pleaded with Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni to veto the anti-gay law, the latter was described as a "significant assault" on LGBTQ people.

Since the virus was first identified in Mubende's central district on September 19, it has spread to the east African nation, including the capital Kampala (shown on map). More than 130 people have confirmed Ebola disease, vomiting, hemoptic, and diarrhoea (shown in graph, top right). However, many others are believed to have been infected and spreading the virus under surveillance. A medical staff disinfects a tent used for Ebola patients, as shown here.

More than 100 people have been infected with the virus so far (shown on map). Thirty-one patients have died. Districts at the center of the ever-growing epidemic have already taken in Covid-style lockdowns in order to isolate the virus. Given that 17 cases have been recorded in Kampala, Uganda's capital, calls for similar steps have been issued. Despite fears that the disease is spreading in the community, health officials insisted today that the situation is not 'getting out of hand.' Princess Anne (left) is currently in Uganda after spending time in Kampala and further afield. On Tuesday, the Princess Royal, the Queen's niece, arrived in the country.

Senior health experts are 'confident' that Ebola will not reach the United States as the disease grips an African nation. This week, Uganda declared a Covid-style lockdown, prompting an overnight ban and the closing of bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues in two regions. Since late September, sixty cases and 24 deaths have been documented, although there have been reports of a'strange disease' dating back to August. However, Dr. Joel Montgomery, who oversees outbreak response in the United States, said today that it was unlikely that the virus would reach Uganda. During an interview, he said, 'They've been responding to Ebola outbreaks for years and are actually really good at it.'

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni declared on Saturday that tighter guidelines in Mubende and Kassanda districts, which have been worst affected by the killer virus, have been in place for 21 days. The overnight ban has been enforced, while entertainment establishments, bars, and restaurants have been closed, as well as entertainment venues. And movement into and out of the districts has been restricted in scenes reminiscent of the worst days of the coronavirus pandemic.

Yoweri Museveni declared that he would have an overnight curfew in an attempt to prevent the spread of the deadly virus. So far, 54 Ebola cases have been reported in Uganda this year. 19 people have died out of these reported cases. One of the victims died in Kampala, the country's capital, but the individual is believed to have contracted the virus in an affected district before fleeing. Staff of the NHS have been warned to remain vigilant as the African nation's epidemic continues to spread.

Following the death of a 58-year-old female health care worker, Uganda's Ebola death toll has now hit ten people. Officials are fighting the virus that kills up to half of those infected. This is the latest in a series of deaths just two weeks after the government declared an Ebola virus outbreak that could kill up to half of those it infects. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero, Uganda's health minister, said a 58-year-old female anaesthetic officer died of Ebola earlier today. 'The late Margaret is the fourth health worker we've lost in the current Ebola epidemic,' the minister said on Twitter. Following the deaths of a doctor, a health assistant, and a midwife from the virus, the country has seen this new fatality. The number of cases identified in the East African nation stands at 43, according to the country's health ministry's last report on Monday. In the Kassanda, Kyegwa, and Kagadi areas, infections have been reported since the initial outbreak was detected in Mubende's central district. However, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has promised not to institute any lockdowns to combat the disease, saying last week that there is "no need for fear."