Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda are Rugby 7s Africa champion after winning all their matches at Kyadondo ground today.  Uganda qualify for the 7s World Cup in Cape Town and the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The top three teams qualified for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens due September …

  Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Airlines made about Sh7.6 billion in the first three months of the year.  The money was collected from ten chartered flights. Six flights were paid for by mainly private clients to Mogadishu, Somalia while three were hired for the First Son Gen …

Brasilia, Brazil | Xinhua |  Brazilian Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga signed a decree on Friday ending the COVID-19 public health emergency, effective 30 days after its publication in the Official Gazette. In its decision to lift the emergency, which has been in force since February 2020, the Health Ministry took …

  Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Rwanda President Kagame has arrived in Uganda for the first time since a dispute that resulted in the closure of the border in Uganda. He soon after arrival held bilateral talks with President Yoweri Museveni on regional peace, stability and cooperation. Rwanda abruptly closed the border in February 2019 after …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts in the education sector have tasked the government with continuous training for the teachers after the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the educationalists, teachers were hit hard during the lockdown, but most of the interventions to recover from the effects of the pandemic have …

Cairo, Egypt |  Xinhua | Nearly one million people have visited the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) since it was opened to the public a year ago, according to the museum’s managing executive director Ahmed Ghoneim. About 40 percent of the 970,000 visitors were from foreign countries, Ghoneim told …

  Brussels, Belgium | Xinhua |  The European Council said Saturday that it has reached a provisional political agreement with the European Parliament on a new legislation to combat hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content online. The legislation, named the Digital Services Act (DSA), “aims to protect the digital …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Schools have said that the continuous assessment system under the new abridged curriculum is not the best alternative for the external mocks banned by the Ministry of Education. The Ministry last year banned external mock examinations prior to their Uganda National Examination Board – …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Light for the World, a global disability NGO has started a career fair to link graduates living with various forms of disabilities to employment. This follows a survey that found out that less than 15% of PWDs practice their professions even when they excel …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliamentary Committee on Physical Infrastructure wants the government to release Sh440 billion for the second phase of upgrading and expansion of Entebbe International Airport. The committee Chairperson David Karubanga says the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority-UCAA has completed close to 80 percent of the …