Thousands of Ugandans were to be moved Friday from hilly regions in the east of the country where a landslide is feared to have killed about 300 people, officials said. "We are looking at 4,000 as the urgent number we need to relocate," said Wilson Watira, district chairman of Bududa, the main town near villages engulfed by Monday's ...

Rescuers at a landslide that engulfed entire villages in eastern Uganda and killed at least 80 people turned Thursday to helping survivors as the chances of finding anyone else alive grew slimmer. Regional Red Cross chief Kevin Nabtuwa said they were handing out relief items to the villagers whose homes were buried by Monday's massive avalanche of mud. "Today ...

Grieving villagers in eastern Uganda dug through the night and moved tonnes of mud in the hope of finding relatives buried by a huge landslide as rescue teams arrived at the scene Thursday. Three days after torrential rains triggered a mudslide that scarred the green slopes of Mount Elgon and engulfed an entire rural community, leaving 80 dead and 300 ...