Heavy rains in eastern Uganda have triggered flooding that has displaced more than 20,000 people and hampered search efforts to find victims of massive landslides feared to have killed hundreds, officials said Thursday. Persistent heavy rains since early in the week have flooded more than 30 ...

United Nations relief teams were Thursday to begin their rescue effort in a remote region of eastern Uganda, three days after a landslide left 80 dead and 300 missing. "Definitely we will be able to begin work on the ground today. We will certainly be working with government, and the military," Theophane Nikyema, resident coordinator for the UN's Uganda ...

During heavy rains, village elders told schoolchildren to seek shelter in the hospital. That sanctuary turned into a death trap as a landslide engulfed the building, leaving more than 50 pupils missing and among hundreds feared dead as avalanches of mud slammed into three villages. When Beatrice Nabuduwa's 12-year-old daughter failed to come home after school Monday, the mother ...

NAMETSI, Uganda (Reuters) - Soldiers and villagers in eastern Uganda hacked at mounds of thick mud with picks and hoes on Wednesday in a desperate bid to find more survivors from a landslide that killed at least 80 people. Waves of mud and rocks swept down the steep mountainside late on Monday night after seven hours of rain and engulfed the ...