Topic - Kampala

Kampala is the largest city and capital of Uganda. The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division and Lubaga Division. The city is coterminous with Kampala District. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - A medical worker disinfects a tent used for suspected Ebola victims inside the Ebola isolation center of Madudu Health Center III, in the village of Madudu, in the Mubende district of Uganda Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

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Drivers of motorcycle taxis, known locally as boda-bodas, ride with passengers on a street of Kampala, Uganda, on July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

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Onlookers watch as workers search for survivors at the site of a collapsed landfill in Kampala, Uganda, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

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Lilian Nabulime carving wood into a wooden sculpture piece at her workshop in Kyanja, a suburb in Kampala City, Wednesday Nov. 29 2023.. Lilian Nabulime hasn't forgotten the time in the 1990s when the Ugandan capital had just one commercial art gallery, a small space that emerging artists struggled to get into. Now there are at least six in Kampala, including one whose curators recently exhibited the sculptor's contrarian work. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda.)

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A member of the security forces uses his mobile phone torch to inspect a bedroom inside the Lhubiriha Secondary School following an attack on the school on Saturday, in Mpondwe, Uganda Sunday, June 18, 2023, near the border with Congo. Ugandan authorities have recovered the bodies of 41 people including 38 students who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked the school, according to the local mayor. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

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A gay Ugandan couple cover themselves with a pride flag as they pose for a photograph in Uganda on March 25, 2023. Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday, May 2, 2023 passed a new version of an anti-gay bill that removes a clause which appeared to criminalize identifying as LGBTQ. (AP Photo, File)

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Doctors wearing protective equipment pray together before they visit a patient who was in contact with an Ebola victim, in the isolation section of Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda on Oct. 20, 2022. Six schoolchildren in Uganda's capital Kampala have tested positive for Ebola, the health minister said Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, marking a serious escalation of the outbreak declared just over a month ago. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

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Security forces and forensics officers examine the scene of a blast on a street near the parliamentary building in Kampala, Uganda, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Two loud explosions rocked Uganda's capital, Kampala, early Tuesday, sparking chaos and confusion as people fled what is widely believed to be coordinated attacks. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

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Supporters of leading opposition challenger Bobi Wine cheer as election officials count the ballots after polls closed in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. Ugandans voted in a presidential election tainted by widespread violence that some fear could escalate as security forces try to stop supporters of Wine from monitoring polling stations.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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In this photo taken Saturday, June 20, 2020, Rebecca Nakamanya works at a restaurant near a bus terminal in capital Kampala, Uganda. The COVID-19 pandemic means that millions of women in Africa and other developing regions could lose years of success in contributing to household incomes, asserting their independence and expanding financial inclusion. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

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FILE - In this Friday Oct. 12, 2018 file photo, Kyadondo MP Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, gestures during a visit to Nairobi, Kenya. Ugandan pop star and opposition politician Bobi Wine staged his first concert since being charged with treason, in a show of defiance punctuated by anti-government slogans and barbs aimed at the long-time president he is challenging. Thousands of Ugandans attended the lakeside event Saturday, Nov. 10 outside the capital, Kampala, many of them clad in red outfits symbolizing their allegiance to the “People Power” movement led by Wine. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, file)

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