Busia, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Busia Resident District Commissioner-RDC, Capt. Chris Mike Okiria has ordered the temporal closure of Busia Produce market in Solo Village in Busia Municipality for alleged none compliance with the Covid19 preventive guidelines.         Okiria says that they have observed that many Kenyan …

Moscow, Russia | AFP |  When President Vladimir Putin announced a paid holiday for the month of April to keep Russians home and prevent the coronavirus from spreading, many small business owners braced themselves. How would they keep to the president’s promise of paying employees while they were shut down? The …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Countries should confirm that transmission of the Coronavirus disease has been controlled, and ensure that health systems are capable of detecting, testing, isolating and treating every case of COVID-19, as well as tracing every contact, before lifting the current restrictions.   They must also make sure …

Washington, United States | AFP |  Coronavirus deaths in the hard-hit United States were flat for a second consecutive day, with New York’s governor saying the “worst is over” as many countries weigh a gradual reopening of their shattered economies. Since emerging late last year, the coronavirus pandemic has killed around …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Two brothers died on Monday evening in Katooke Zone in Nabweru Sub County in Wakiso district when they fell in a soak pit. The deceased brothers are Frank Kavuma and Mark Mulangira. It is alleged that one of the deceased dropped in the soak pit, …

Soroti, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The COVID-19 Taskforce in Teso Sub Region is struggling to re-integrate COVID-19 suspects discharged from the isolation and quarantine centres in Soroti.  By Monday, 10 people had been discharged from the quarantine at Soroti Comprehensive Nursing School and another from the Isolation Unit at Soroti …

Tripoli, Libya | AFP |  Forces backing Libya’s unity government captured two coastal cities west of Tripoli on Monday in a new blow to military commander Khalifa Haftar a year after he launched an offensive on the capital. They also routed his forces from three smaller cities, sparking rocket attacks on …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP |  Saudi Arabia has deported nearly 3,000 Ethiopian migrants in recent days, despite concerns that such operations could hasten the spread of the coronavirus, the United Nations says. Since mid-March, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) has registered 2,870 Ethiopian returnees, all but 100 of …

Kasese, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Marine Security and surveillance on Lake Edward, on the border side of Kasese District, has been beefed up after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recorded new cases of Ebola in the country’s eastern side.  The first case was a 26-year-old electrician from Beni, a …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Bicycle mechanics are experiencing a boom in the number of people seeking their services and spare parts because of the ban on public transport. President, Yoweri Museveni banned both public and private transport with the exception of emergency and cargo vehicles as part of the …