Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Health is to start spraying all travellers who enter the country.  This is a new measure that the health ministry has come up within a bid to stop the spread of COVID 19 into the country.  According to the health ministry, all …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda has restricted travelling to nine more countries that have been hit by COVID 19.  The affected countries are San Marino, Belgium, USA, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Austria and Malaysia.  According to the health ministry, these countries have reported large cumulative numbers of infected …

Dakar, Senegal | AFP |  Residents of Senegal’s booming capital Dakar are petitioning to transform one of the city’s last blank spaces into a leafy park, hoping to beat back an ever-rising tide of concrete. Seen from above, the coastal city is a sea of monochrome-sand colour, with almost no green …

Rome, Italy | AFP |  Italians braced for a second day of national lockdown Wednesday after a sharp spike in coronavirus-related deaths, as New York deployed the National Guard to contain a disease that has sown worldwide panic. Europe’s hardest-hit country said the death toll from the COVID-19 virus had risen …

Lubango, Angola | AFP |  Tehandjila Quessale’s heart sank every time her mother sent her to fetch water for their crops, up in the mountains of Angola’s southern Huila region. The 16-year-old had to leave school early and walk three hours to join a long queue of people at the nearest …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  Britain unveils its first post-Brexit budget on Wednesday, with all eyes on emergency government measures to ease the economic pain from the coronavirus outbreak. It comes the day after a minister in the health department, Nadine Dorries, tested positive for COVID-19, raising concern about whether …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Denis Tukamushaba alias Chicharito, the Proprietor of Eagle Tours and Travel in Kabale district has been arrested for allegedly helping Rwandan nationals to acquire Ugandan national identity cards. Tukamushaba, a resident of Bufuka village in Kitumba Sub County, Kabale district was detained after responding to …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that for countries to improve Early Childhood Development (ECD), they need to ensure that children and infants receive responsive care in the first three years of birth. In its new guidelines released on Tuesday, WHO recommends that governments …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Police on have received the Closed Circuit Television –CCTV footage of the killers of Rodgers Nasasira, a security guard at Good Neighbours a Non-Governmental Organisation –NGO in Bukasa-Muyenga, in Kampala. Nasasira was found dead by workmates who arrived at the office at around 7 am …

Tripoli, Libya | AFP |  Despite advice from health authorities to shun public gatherings, Moayed al-Missaoui and friends watched an Italian Serie A football match in a buzzing cafe in the Libyan capital Tripoli. While the novel coronavirus has affected more than 100 countries since December, many in Libya believe their …