Pearl Dairy resumes milk processing THE INDEPENDENT | JULIUS BUSINGE | Pearl Dairy Farms Limited has resumed operations after nearly four months of no activity. The company had suspended milk processing until further notice at the beginning of the year (2020) after Kenya blocked the entry of its processed milk …
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Stockholm, Sweden | AFP | In a highly anticipated announcement, Swedish prosecutors will reveal Wednesday whether they are pressing charges or closing the investigation into the unsolved 1986 murder of prime minister Olof Palme. The killing, which current Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has described as an “open wound”, has stumped …
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Washington, United States | AFP | Russia called Tuesday on the United States to make a “positive” proposal as the powers open talks on a major disarmament treaty, warning that US insistence on including China could scuttle efforts. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov will meet in Vienna on June 22 with …
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Madrid, Spain | AFP | When La Liga stopped they were not expected to play any part in the rest of the title race but when the season resumes on Thursday, Eden Hazard and Luis Suarez could be set to decide it. Hazard was looking beyond Real Madrid to the Euros …
Read More »Kitgum, Uganda| AFP | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum District has run out of coronavirus sample collection kits. This comes just a few days after the District health officials collected swab samples from over 50 contacts of a 34-year-old resident of Pandwong division who tested positive for COVID-19. William Komakech, the Kitgum …
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Gulu, Uganda| AFP | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu Regional Referral Hospital has received six new COVID-19 positive patients. The patients who are all cargo truck drivers from Elegu One-Stop Border entry point in Amuru District were admitted on Tuesday evening. This brings the number of patients admitted at the facility to …
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Chanika, Uganda| AFP | THE INDEPENDENT | They were handed over to Rwandan Immigration authorities on Tuesday at the Uganda-Rwanda border of Chanika in Kisoro district. Malicerino Mwesigye, the Assistant Immigration Commissioner who presided over the handover says that the Rwandan nationals were arrested from different parts of the country without …
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Murchison Falls, Uganda | AFP | The boat edged as close as possible to the deafening surge of water roaring over Murchison Falls, giving tourists a hair-raising shot of one of Africa’s awesome and terrifying natural spectacles. Tens of thousands visit northwest Uganda every year to marvel as the force of …
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Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Hotels have ramped up hygiene, archaeological sites have been sanitised and beaches cleaned up — Egypt is gearing up to welcome back tourists kept away by the coronavirus pandemic. “We are laying the groundwork for tourists from around the world to find this destination … in …
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Gulu, Uganda| AFP | THE INDEPENDENT | Dozens of children and mothers living with HIV in Gulu are hit by acute malnutrition. According to records by The Aids Support Organization (TASO) centre in Gulu up to 49 children and 200 breastfeeding mothers are in dire need of food. An estimated 27,000 …
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