Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Corporal  James Musandiizi is currently on the run after shooting dead, 16 year old Nelson Waako while enforcing curfew guidelines on Saturday night. Waako, a resident of Mutai village, in Buwenge sub county, in Jinja district, was reportedly fighting a friend, Ashiraf Binywela in …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s ‘middle class’ or those living in urban areas are less likely to seek medical care in government facilities compared to the poor or those in rural areas, according to a survey published by Twaweza East Africa. The survey was aimed at investigating how …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Seventy five patients succumbed to Covid-19 between May 21 and July 11 at Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital, a, average of three deaths every two days. In the first wave, that is between March 21, 2020 to  end  of April,  1,393 patients  were handled at …

New Delhi, India | Xinhua | Authorities in Delhi Saturday allowed further relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions across the Indian capital region, saying that from July 26 metro and buses will run at full capacity, while cinemas will reopen at half capacity. The order issued by Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) …

Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Mukono are investigating circumstances under which the house of Esimafesi Wandera, the National Resistance Movement-NRM chairperson for Ssozi Parish in Mpatta sub county was set on fire, and he lost sh23 million he had hidden in the ceiling. At around 1pm, Wandera’s …

London, UK | Xinhua | The United States is facing “the pandemic of the unvaccinated” amid a national surge of new COVID-19 infections, according to a report published in The Guardian. At least 99 percent of those in the United States who died of COVID-19 in the last six months …

  Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s rower Kathleen Grace Noble’s chance for any medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games has come to an end after the athlete fell short in the Repechage contest of the Women’s single sculls race Saturday. She has nevertheless Sunday morning qualified for the …

Johannesburg, South Africa | Xinhua | South Africa is ready to reopen schools on July 26 as COVID-19 figures are reducing and measures have been put in place to reduce transmission, said the Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga on Saturday, while briefing the media in Pretoria about the country’s …

Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT | The first Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals were awarded Saturday. They have been produced using metals from nearly 79,000 tonnes of used phones and other electronic equipment donated by the Japanese public. Awarded, as is traditionally the case, by the IOC President, Thomas Bach, the …

COMMENT | Samson Tinka | “Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive,” author Barry Lopez wrote. This today, applies to Ugandan Airlines, who will definitely need many positive stories to keep in the sky. On 19th July 21, I travelled to one of the countries in …