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Agriculture insurance still a mystery among farmers in Acholi

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers in Acholi sub-region are yet to embrace insurance policies put in place to protect them from losses arising out of drought, pests and disease and floods among other calamities. The government unveiled in the financial year 2016-2017, a 5 billion Shillings Agriculture Insurance Premium …

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U.S. film and TV union bars Trump from future re-admission

Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) passed a resolution preemptively denying any potential re-admission applications by former U.S. President Donald Trump, said the union Sunday. The resolution, passed in a Zoom videoconference on Saturday by the union’s National Board, cites …

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Buganda sub county representative sued for defamation

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bukakata sub-county chairperson Aloysius Jjuuko has sued Buganda Kingdom’s area representative Rose Namuddu for alleged defamation. In the execution of her responsibilities some of which include superintending over kingdom properties in Bukakata, Buddu county, Namuddu clashed with the sub-county leadership whom she accused of authorizing …

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Bududa district receives 215,000 face masks

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bududa district has received 215,000 face masks. The distribution is in line with the government’s program to provide free reusable masks to all Ugandans aged six years and above to support in the fight against Covid-19. Uganda started mass distribution of face masks in June …

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AstraZeneca vaccine roll-out in S. Africa halted

Johannesburg, S.A. | Xinhua | South Africa said Sunday the roll-out of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the country will be temporarily put on hold until more “clinically efficacy information” of the vaccine against new COVID-19 variants becomes available. “It’s a temporary issue that we have to hold onto AstraZeneca until we …

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New Ebola case emerges in eastern DRC

Kinshasa, DRC | Xinhua | A new positive case of Ebola virus disease has been confirmed in North Kivu, a province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to the communication made by the Minister of Public Health Eteni Longondo on Congolese national television (RTNC) on Sunday. The victim is …

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Police recovers body parts of crocodile attack victim

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Mayuge district on Sunday recovered some body parts of a 16-year-old who was killed by a crocodile on Thursday. Shafiq Watangwa, a primary six pupil at Musubi primary school in Musubi village, Bukatube sub county, Mayuge district had gone swimming with his …

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