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Police in Uganda Thursday evening violently put an end to an event for gay, lesbian and transgender people. That raises human rights organization Human Rights Watch Friday.

About 60,000 people have fled over the past three weeks because of escalating violence in South Sudan, most to neighboring Uganda. According to the UN refugee agency UNHCR are taking armed gangs actively stopping and back hunting displaced.

Germany Wednesday in the South Sudanese capital Juba began the evacuation of Germans and other Europeans. The first group of evacuees to be flown to Uganda on Wednesday afternoon, a flight of about 500 kilometers. The German military aircraft of the Franco-German Transall type have special protection mechanisms against missile attacks.

The Red Cross has temporarily evacuated Tuesday some of its international staff in South Sudan. The charity night, although a cease-fire was declared, the risk of escalation of violence undiminished. The stakeholders, including not Dutch, have sought refuge in Uganda.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is his visit to Africa began Monday in Uganda. At the airport of Entebbe he attended a ceremony in memory of, among others, his brother Yonatan, who was a colonel in the army.

The World Health Organization (WHO) fears that the next time as much vaccine is needed against yellow fever, which can run the global stock. Due to an outbreak of the deadly disease in Angola, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the WHO should distribute all 18 million doses of the vaccine. In the global supply of the vaccine are still 6.2 million doses.

Five men were sentenced Friday by a court in Uganda to life imprisonment for the bloody bombings of soccer fans in Kampala in 2010, which killed 76 people. According among the convicts the mastermind behind the attack, which was claimed by terrorist group al-Shabaab.

The forensic team that traveled to Uganda last week to find the missing Sophia Koetsier, after a few days stoppage yet been launched. An anonymous benefactor from the African country guarantees the costs and their safety.

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda seems almost certainly a new term. With about half the votes counted, Museveni stands at 60 percent. But his main opponent, Kizza Besigye, a fraud was committed on a large scale.

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is Friday for the third time this week arrested by police. That happened in riots at the headquarters of his party FDC in the capital Kampala.

The Ugandan opposition leader Thursday on the day of the election were arrested. That is a spokeswoman for Kizza Besigye's FDC party said.

In an attack by Islamic extremists in eastern Congo are certainly sixteen people died. That said, a local human rights organization Monday.

In Brazil, the number of reports of infants rise with the condition microcephaly. Since October last year so far recorded nearly 3900 suspected cases, as revealed Thursday to figures released by the health authorities.

In Colombia, more than 11 600 people are infected with the virus zika, among them 459 pregnant women. That made the Ministry of Health of that country announced. The virus is not dangerous to adults, but may lead to birth defects.

Pope Francis on Friday visited a slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. He named the neighborhoods for the poorest " wounds " by a wealthy and powerful elite. He called on African governments to do more to alleviate poverty.

More than one million children in the Central African Republic (CAR) are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Nearly half of all children under five are malnourished, UN agency UNICEF sets Friday ahead of the visit of Pope Francis in the violence-plagued country.

Pope Francis is Wednesday arrived in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The pontiff was welcomed at the airport by some dignitaries and hundreds of enthusiastic Kenyans.

Pope Francis fly Wednesday to Africa, where he touches three countries over six days. During his first visit to the African continent, he is a guest in Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic. The trip will focus on two things: faith and the extensive security measures.