Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | Tanzania’s new position on containment of COVID-19 gains momentum tomorrow when President Samia Suluhu Hassan receives her first Coronavirus jab. It will mark the launch of the COVID-19 immunization campaign in Tanzania, a country that a few months questioned measures being taken worldwide to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni will address the nation at 8pm on Saturday on the status of the ongoing 42-day lockdown and measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic. He on July 18 reinstated some of last year’s tough COVID-19 measures, including a lockdown. According to President Museveni, the …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian health authorities on Sunday announced measures aimed at reinforcing precaution against COVID-19 amid a surge of cases in the third wave of the pandemic. Abel Makubi, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, announced suspension …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Katwe Police is holding a woman for allegedly stabbing her husband to death in Ggangu, Makindye Division on Saturday. Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire identified the deceased as Siraj who was stabbed to death by Saidat Naiga. The suspect was rescued by the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The project coordinator of the Lubowa Specialized hospital Dr. Eng. John Tumwesigye has lost a case in which he sued government and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry for Health Dr. Diana Atwine for terminating his contract. Government represented by the Health and Finance …
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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Karenga district in Karamoja sub region in the North Eastern Uganda have arrested a laboratory technician attached to Kapedo health centre III for allegedly refusing to carry out test on Covid-19 suspects, demanding first to to be paid his allowance. Robert Lamson …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | High Court in Kampala has dismissed an application filed by a retired Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF soldier who sued government demanding pension and gratuity of over sh38 million. Tom Asiu retired soldiers number RA/153458 PTE sued government in 2020 demanding pension of shillings 20 …
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Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT | Flyweight boxer Catherine Nanziri has been eliminated from the ongoing Tokyo Olympic games following her unanimous points loss to Japan’s Tsukimi Namiki. Nanziri 21, who was in the blue corner lost the fight on unanimous decision by the judges. According to the scorers, Nanziri never …
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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents and local authorities in collaboration with the police in Lyantonde district have launched a massive search for a three-months-old baby said to have been abducted by a new neighbour. Elisa Wasike, was abducted from his mother’s house in Kaliiro Ward B, Lyantonde Town …
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Xining, China | Xinhua | After one year of operation, China’s first ultra high-voltage (UHV) power superhighway for transmitting clean energy delivered 13.1 billion kWh of power from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, abundant in energy resources, to densely populated Henan in central China, according to State Grid’s Qinghai branch. As …
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