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2025 in Uganda
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Events in the year 2025 in Uganda.
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Events
January
- 30 January – The first fatality from Sudan ebolavirus in Uganda since 2022 is reported in a nurse at the Mulago Hospital in Kampala.[1] The subsequent outbreak is declared over by Ugandan authorities on 26 April with a total of 14 cases and four deaths reported.[2]
- 31 January – The Supreme Court of Uganda rules against the practice of trying civilians before military courts following an appeal by former opposition MP Michael Kabaziguruka. However, the Uganda People's Defence Force announces that it would continue trying opposition leader Kizza Besigye on treason charges.[3]
March
- 13 March – 2025 Kawempe North by-election.[4]
- 14 March – A court in the United Kingdom convicts High Court of Uganda judge and United Nations judicial officer Lydia Mugambe of human trafficking and conspiracy to intimidate a victim in a case of a young Ugandan woman whom she had brought to the UK.[5]
May
- 20 May – Parliament passes a bill authorizing military trials for civilians.[6][7]
June
- 3 June – Two suspected militants are killed in a bombing attempt on a Catholic shrine in Munyonyo, Kampala.[8]
- 5 June – The World Bank lifts a ban on granting loans to Uganda that it imposed in 2023 following the passage of anti-LGBT legislation.[9]
- 10 June – The European Union removes Uganda from its list of high risk jurisdictions for money laundering and terrorism financing.[10]
- 16 June – Yoweri Museveni signs the Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces Act 2025, reintroducing military trials for civilians.[11]
July
- 10 July – Eighteen people are injured in clashes between Sudanese and South Sudanese refugees at the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement.[12]
- 12 July – Uganda reopens its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo following a six-month closure caused by the 2025 Goma offensive.[13]
- 12 July – A Sudanese refugee is killed in an attack blamed on South Sudanese refugees at the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement.[14]
- 14 July – President Museveni orders the suspension of dual citizenship applications for Sudanese and Rwandan nationals.[15]
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Sports
- 13 September 2024 – 24 May 2025 – 2024–25 Uganda Premier League[16]
- 8–19 July – 2025 Rugby Africa Cup in Kampala.[17]
Holidays
Source:[18]
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 26 January – Liberation Day
- 16 February – Archbishop Janani Luwum Day
- 8 March – International Women's Day
- 30 March – Ramadan Bairam Holiday
- 18 April – Good Friday
- 20 April – Easter Sunday
- 21 April – Easter Monday
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 3 June – Uganda Martyrs' Day
- 6 June – Eid al-Adha[19]
- 9 June – National Heroes' Day
- 9 October – Independence Day
- 25 December – Christmas Day
- 26 December – Boxing Day
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See also
Deaths
- 9 January:
- Margaret Baba Diri, 70, politician, MP (since 1996).[20]
- Muhammad Ssegirinya, 37, politician, MP (since 2022).[21]
- 14 July: George Kanyeihamba, 85, justice of the Supreme Court (1997–2009).[22]
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