Entebbe Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Operators in the Aviation industry in Uganda, Ethiopia and Qatar are partnering to train Ugandan students in basic aviation operations and service delivery. The partnership has been sealed at Entebbe Airport on Sunday morning. The Aviators in the two countries will train Ugandan students in …

Dresden, Germany | AFP | Klaus Zimmerling was bored with his mechanical engineering job when the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall gave him the impetus to turn his life around. “At first I didn’t believe it,” he said of the momentous event 30 years ago that led to German reunification …

Yaounde, Cameroon | AFP |  The club is secret. You have to know someone who will guide you to the address — off a busy street in Cameroon’s capital, down a dingy alley to a door with the unwelcoming message in chalk: “No entry.” Inside is a rectangular room, dark and …

Stanley, United Kingdom | AFP |  Thirty-seven years ago, Argentine soldiers invaded the Falkland Islands, planting thousands of mines. British troops liberated the locals then — and a few dozen Zimbabweans keep them safe now. “There are over 100 minefields flung all across the Falkland Islands from Fox Bay, Port …

Berlin, Germany | AFP |  When Berlin’s despised Wall went up in 1961, the divided city overnight became an imposing landscape of barbed wire and guards with shoot-to-kill orders. But below the earth, desperate Germans began digging dozens of tunnels to try to burrow their way to freedom, or liberate easterners …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The World Health Organisation has cautioned that a Vaccine Derived Polio Virus, remains an emergency for Africa where several children under 15 remain unvaccinated.     Vaccine-derived polio spreads mostly where vaccine coverage is low and there is poor sanitation. In this case, a child who is …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Health experts have said Uganda should remain vigilant to interrupt polio transmission.  The experts say that no country is safe until the disease is totally eradicated in the world.  On Thursday, an independent commission of experts announced that wild polio virus type 3 has been …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Puzzled by difficulty of taxing the digital economy, African revenue collectors will sit in Kampala next month to discuss how best they can squeeze revenue from the business that run mostly on the internet. Through their umbrella African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF), the leaders from …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  More than 300 suspected dealers in stolen items have been arrested in an operation conducted by different security agencies in Kampala. Uganda People’s Defence Forces –UPDF, police ‘s Field Force Unit, Crime Intelligence, conducted operations in areas of Katwe particularly at Muganzirwazza Complex, Cooper Complex …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | More children were vaccinated in the concluded Measles-Rubella mass immunization campaign.  While the ministry had planned to vaccinate 18 million children,the number surpassed to 20 million. The mismatch between the planned and actual number of children vaccinated has led to a disagreement between the ministry …