Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  A combined team of Uganda Peoples Defense Forces-UPDF and police personnel have today arrested Emmanuel Ngobi, a resident of Ntege village in the southern division of Jinja city. Ngobi, who is currently detained at Gadaffi military barracks, is accused of impersonating as a Chieftaincy of …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Researchers are calling for open access to hydroxyurea, the only effective drug proven to reduce the frequency of painful episodes among persons with sickle cell disease. They say that the drug should be given to everyone who battles the painful hereditary blood disorder without discrimination.  …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | As candidates prepare to return to their respective schools, their counterparts in non-finalist classes will be learning from home in what the government has termed; the homeschooling programme.     However, many parents and approximately 12.7 million learners at primary and secondary levels that have had …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda National Roads Authority- UNRA has erected a retaining wall at Kitubulu section along the Entebbe-Kampala road.   The wall, 120 metres long and 2 metres deep, is expected to protect the road from flooding caused by the increasing water levels of Lake Victoria. In …

Kagadi, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health has delivered 341,197 face masks to Kagadi district.  This is the first batch of face masks to be delivered to the district ever since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country in March. The distribution of face masks is part of …

Sembabule, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The National Resistance Movement- NRM party residue primaries in Sembabule district were marred by acts of violence despite heavy security deployment in the area. More than 2,000 security personnel that included police and the army were deployed in Sembabule on Tuesday to maintain security in …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Global HIV activists are mourning the passing of a man, who made history as the first person to be cured of HIV infection. Timothy Ray Brown, known globally as the Berlin Patient was cured of HIV in 2008 after undergoing a complex stem cell transplant …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Entebbe International Airport will receive 12 commercial passenger flights today, October 1, 2020, the first day of reopening the airport, after a six months lull. The incoming flights include Turkish, RwandAir, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Tarco Air and FlyDubai, among others.  The airport was partially closed …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health has revised the list of accredited laboratories allowed to test for COVID-19.  In May the ministry accredited eleven laboratories based on the dynamics of infection spread of the disease and the availability of testing reagents. However the number has now been …

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL | XINHUA |   Brazil again exceeded 1,000 daily deaths caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) after registering 1,031 fatalities from the disease in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 143,952, the government said on Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Health, it was …