The number of elephants in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park rose by more than 1 000 in the past two to three years, partly because of animals fleeing poachers and civil war in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an official said on Monday.
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/ 2 September 2004
Rescuers have pulled five bodies from the rubble of a construction accident in Uganda and were scrambling on Thursday to save more still trapped alive a day after a three-storey building collapsed on them. Workers had been on every floor when the building collapsed on Wednesday morning, witnesses said.