London, United Kingdom | AFP | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was taken to hospital after failing to shake off coronavirus symptoms, as Queen Elizabeth II said a united effort would defeat the outbreak. The government announced within an hour of the monarch’s rare special address Sunday to the country and …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority – KCCA has collected over 70 street children from Kampala city to provide them shelter at Nakivubo Blue Primary School. The KCCA team headed by Kampala Central Division Mayor Charles Sserunjogi was part of the team that collected the children …

🔹 April 5 – 4 new cases – TOTAL 52 🔸 April 4 – 0 new cases – TOTAL 48 🔹 April 3 – 3 new cases – TOTAL 48 🔸 April 2 – 1 new case – TOTAL 45 🔹 March 31 – 11 new – TOTAL 44 Kampala, …

  Buliisa Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The closure of the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo is helping in combating insecurity across Lake Albert. The border was closed, on the orders of President Yoweri Museveni, as one of the measures to control the spread of COVID-19. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Political Parties with representation in parliament organized under the Interparty Organization for Dialogue-IPOD have called for a joint effort to fight coronavirus. The call was made by IPOD council comprising Secretary Generals’ of the different parties who converged at the office of the Prime …

Madrid, Spain | AFP | Americans on Saturday came to grips with recommendations to wear masks against the coronavirus, while Spain added to hopes that Europe could be turning a corner in the pandemic with a second daily drop in deaths. China meanwhile came to a standstill as the nation where …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ongoing lockdown has affected the distribution of newspapers in Karamoja, a region located about 350 kilometres from the capital Kampala. The newspaper scarcity started after the ban on public transport one of the measures announced by the government to control COVID-19. The region …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | British American Tobacco (BAT) US bio-tech subsidiary, Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), is developing a potential vaccine for COVID-19 and is now in pre-clinical testing. If testing goes well, BAT is hopeful that with the right partners and support from government agencies, between 1 and 3 …

Algiers, Algeria | AFP | As adversity strikes in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, Algeria has found a helping hand in China, an old friend and the top exporter to Africa’s largest country. An Air Algerie plane arrived in the capital Algiers from Beijing on March 27 carrying a 13-member …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local Government Minister for Raphael Magyezi has directed Local governments to close down all markets that are not observing the measures to control the spread of the coronavirus. Magyezi issued the order during a press conference in which he announced guidelines for local …