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Uganda Civil Aviation Authority

The Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) regulates civil aviation in Uganda and operates Entebbe International Airport, established by the Civil Aviation Authority Act of 1994.

Uganda Heart Institute

The Uganda Heart Institute is Uganda's national tertiary cardiac referral center at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, founded in 1988 and the only center offering both open-heart surgery and catheterisation.

Uganda National Congress

The Uganda National Congress (UNC), founded by Ignatius Musaazi on 2 March 1952, was the first political party in Uganda, campaigning for self-government under British colonial rule.

Uganda national football team

Uganda national football team, the Uganda Cranes, men's national team run by FUFA. First official match 1926 vs Kenya; seven AFCON appearances, runners-up in 1978 to Ghana; record 15 CECAFA titles; coached by Paul Put.

Uganda National Liberation Front

The Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF) was a coalition of exile groups formed at Moshi, Tanzania, in 1979 to overthrow Idi Amin, then governed Uganda until 1980.

Uganda People's Congress

The Uganda People's Congress (UPC) is a social democratic political party in Uganda, founded in 1960 under Milton Obote, who led it to independence in 1962.

Uganda People's Defence Force

The Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) is the national armed force of Uganda, established under the 1995 Constitution and descended from the National Resistance Army.

Uganda People's Democratic Army

The Uganda People's Democratic Army (UPDA) was a rebel army formed in 1986 by former UNLA soldiers, mainly Acholi, fighting in northern Uganda until 1988.

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Uganda Protectorate

The Uganda Protectorate was the British colonial state in East Africa, proclaimed over Buganda in June 1894 and extended in 1896 to Ankole, Toro, and Bunyoro.

Uganda Railway

The Uganda Railway (Lunatic Line) was a British metre-gauge line built 1896–1901 from Mombasa to Kisumu, entirely in present-day Kenya, later extended to Kampala in 1931; it cut Mombasa–Lake Victoria travel from two months to two days and underlies today's Uganda Railways Corporation.

Uganda–Tanzania War

The Uganda–Tanzania War, also called the Kagera War or 1979 Liberation War, was an October 1978 to June 1979 conflict in which Idi Amin's Uganda invaded Tanzania and Julius Nyerere's Tanzania counter-invaded, overthrowing Amin in April 1979.

Ugandan Asian return migration

Ugandan Asian return migration is the return, from the 1980s and 1990s onward, of South Asians expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972, along with property restitution.

Ugandan Bush War

Ugandan Bush War (1981-1986): civil war between Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army and Milton Obote's UPC government, triggered by the disputed December 1980 election, fought mainly in the Luwero Triangle, ending with the NRA taking power in January 1986.

Ugandan Constituent Assembly

The Ugandan Constituent Assembly was the elected body, sitting from May 1994 to September 1995, that debated and enacted the Constitution of Uganda adopted in 1995.

Oct 10, 2026

Ugandan shilling

The Ugandan shilling (UGX) is the currency of Uganda, issued by the Bank of Uganda as notes and coins. The second shilling, introduced in 1987, replaced one ruined by hyperinflation.

Ugarit

Ugarit (Ras Shamra, رأس شمرا) was a Late Bronze Age Canaanite city-state on the Syrian coast, a major eastern Mediterranean trade hub whose port Mahadu and alphabetic cuneiform script, deciphered after the 1929 Schaeffer excavations, distinguish it from all other Levantine sites.

Ugarit earthquake

The Ugarit earthquake refers to earthquakes proposed by excavator Claude Schaeffer for Bronze Age Ugarit, Syria, around 1365 BC and 1250 BC, inferred from archaeology.

Ugaritic alphabet

The Ugaritic alphabet, also called Ugaritic cuneiform, is a cuneiform abjad of 30 signs used at the Syrian city of Ugarit from the 14th century BC until about 1185 BC.

Ugaritic language

Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic language spoken at Ugarit on the north Syrian coast, written in an alphabetic cuneiform script of 30 signs, attested mainly in the 13th century BCE.

Ugaritic texts

The Ugaritic texts, also called the Ras Shamra tablets, are clay tablets excavated since 1929 at Ras Shamra, the site of ancient Ugarit on the north Syrian coast.

Oct 20, 2026

Ugatame Corona

Ugatame Corona (also spelled Ugateme), a 370-km corona on Venus at 76.5°S, 255°E near the south pole, IAU-approved 1997, named for a Kapauku Great Mother goddess; its corona status is questioned.

Ugbaru

Ugbaru, also known as Gubaru, was governor of Gutium under Cyrus II who took Babylon without battle in 539 BC and governed it until his death.

UGC Equity Regulations, 2026

UGC Equity Regulations, 2026: also called the Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, notified 13 January 2026 by India's UGC, replacing the 2012 rules with mandatory Equal Opportunity Centres, equity committees, and penalties; stayed by the Supreme Court on 29 January 2026.

UGC Roll Back protests

UGC Roll Back protests: Indian student demonstrations from January 2026 demanding withdrawal of the UGC Equity Regulations 2026, alleging misuse against general-category students; the Supreme Court stayed the rules and the Centre later reconsidered them.