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By Michael Ainomugisha
After nearly two years of COVID-19 global pandemic, Uganda was fully open for social political and economical activities. There has been a number historical events in the political, social and economic spheres of the citizenry and here are some of the events that you must have missed out from January to October;
10 January – Uganda reopens schools for the first time since March 2020 after a nearly two-year closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
28 January – The Rwandan foreign ministry announces the reopening of the country's border crossing with Uganda following political tensions between the two countries that led to the closure of the border crossing for three years.
4 May – Twenty people are killed when a bus crashes into a tea estate in Fort Portal.
24 May – Ugandan police arrest veteran opposition politician Kizza Besigye for "inciting violence" and also disperse a crowd protesting against the government.
8 June – Uganda reports its first suspected case of monkeypox.
1 August – Twenty-four people are killed by heavy flooding in eastern Uganda.
7 September – 2022 Kasese District landslides: Fifteen people are killed by landslides caused by heavy rain in Kasese District.
20 September – Uganda reports an outbreak of Ebola after a rare case of the Sudan ebolavirus strain was confirmed in a 24-year-old man who later died, becoming the first known fatality from the strain since 2011.
17 October – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni places the capital city of Kampala under high Ebola response alert after two non-native patients reached the city, one of whom died, amid an outbreak of the disease in the country.
25 October – Eleven people, including children, are killed and six others are injured in a fire at a school for the blind in Mukono District.
The writer is a Journalism Scholar Podcaster, Certified by AFP and Google News Initiative
Thanks a lot ssebo for the round up. We are grateful😎