Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | AFP | Sub-Saharan Africa on Wednesday recorded its first COVID-19 death, a high-ranking politician in Burkina Faso, as the head of the World Health Organisation urged the continent to “prepare for the worst”. “Africa should wake up,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference in Geneva, pointing out …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kyambogo Guild Elections have been suspended indefinitely. In a statement issued by Mildred Tibananuka, the Kyambogo University Dean of students on Wednesday, the elections will be held in a months time. According to Tibananuka, the elections which were supposed to be held today were …
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Kigezi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Running water has killed two people in Kigezi sub-region. Yoweri Mbabazi, 78, a resident of Busigyi village in Gitovu parish, Busanza Sub County, Kisoro district was killed when running waters destroyed his house and buried him alive. Wilson Ngomanziiza, Busigyi village LCI Chairperson says that …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has asked the public to drink plenty of water as the country prepares itself to fight the coronavirus. The minister of health, Dr Jane Aceng made the call during a national address by the President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni about …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Archbishop of the Province of Uganda, the Most Rev. Dr Stephen Samuel Kaziimba says that the directive to close places of worship will have a big impact on the way Christians live and worship. This is carried in his pastoral letter to Bishops, Clergy and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | ADDRESS BY H.E. YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA TO THE NATION ON THE CORONA VIRUS (COVID 19) GUIDELINES ON THE PREVENTIVE MEASURES 18TH MARCH, 2020 STATE HOUSE – ENTEBBE Countrymen and Countrywomen, Greetings to you all. Today, I have come …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has sent the sugar bill back to President Museveni in its current form. Although Parliament passed the bill excluding zoning of sugar cane farmers, President declined to assent to the bill saying the absence of zoning in the sugar industry would kill the economy. …
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Athens, Greece | AFP | Greece has said it is placing migrant camps across the country on a two-week shutdown to visitors to ward off the new coronavirus. “Visits (to camps) by individuals and organisations are suspended for at least 14 days,” the migration ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. …
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New York, United States | AFP | US author Philip Roth certainly could never have imagined Donald Trump’s presidency when he wrote “The Plot Against America.” But a new TV adaptation of his bleak 2004 novel, which envisions an alternate history of a fascist United States, certainly suggests a link between …
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Bunia, DR Congo | AFP | With three fingers chopped off his left hand, Father Guy-Robert Mandro bears physical witness to a resurgence of violence in DR Congo that has gone widely unnoticed in a world fixated by the coronavirus pandemic. Since the start of the month, around 50 people have …
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