Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thirty five year old Fazira Kawuma is blind and cannot read what is displayed within banking halls in order to access her money. She always needs a helper to assist her but faces challenges at banks because the helpers are not readily available. Kawuma and …
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Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale district has registered 2618 cases of teenage pregnancies in the last seven months. According to statistics from health department of the district, the cases were registered across both private and health facilities between January and July this year from a total of 17309 of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Director for Public Prosecutions, Jane Frances Abodo and the Principal Judge, Dr. Justice Flavian Zeija want Uganda Prisons Services to manage child offenders due to the deplorable conditions in the remand homes. Abodo and Zeija made the proposal during the third stakeholders Forum on …
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Los Angeles, US | XINHUA | Video-sharing social networking platform TikTok said Friday that it felt disappointed with the decision announced by the the U.S. Commerce Department blocking the download and update of the company’s popular application starting Sunday. “We disagree with the decision from the Commerce Department, and are …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Delegates of the Alliance for National Transformation – ANT in the Eastern part of the country have endorsed Major-General Gregory Mugisha Muntu as the party’s flag bearer for presidency in the 2021 general elections. Muntu was handed the party’s flag and constitution at Forester Gardens …
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United Nations | XINHUA | United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for political will and bold action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Public appetite for transformative change is growing, he said in his opening remarks at the SDG Moment 2020. “But one critical ingredient is …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan scientists are planning to start a laboratory manufacturing of targeted antibodies that can kill SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19. Dr Bruce Kirenga, a researcher and executive director at the Makerere University Lung Institute told URN in an interview that …
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New York, US | XINHUA | Developing countries need external support to ease inflated debt burden caused by the COVID-19 pandemic so as to maintain social services and secure global economic recovery, according to experts and relevant institutions. RECOVERY TAKES TIME Economic output picked up swiftly following the easing of …
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Brussels, Belgium | XINHUA | The European Commission on Friday unveiled its plan to step up enforcement and raise more awareness about racism, with the ultimate goal being a radical shift in people’s mindset that such behavior is not tolerated in the Europan Union (EU). “It is time to acknowledge …
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Kigali, Rwanda | XINHUA | Paris Saint-Germain is set to open up a soccer academy in Rwanda in October, the Rwandan Ministry of Sports announced here on Friday. The football academy is scheduled to be located in Huye district, southern province, said Rwandan Minister of Sports Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju at …
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