Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Wakiso District Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Rose Kirabira Nalongo has advised Ugandans living in urban areas to start walking back to their villages if they cannot sustain their families other than waiting for food from government. She says that it will not be …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Gender, Labor and Social Development Ministry failed in its statutory duty when it failed to provide assistance to migrant laborers leaving the country and protect them from human trafficking according to a High Court judgment. Justice Musa Ssekaana delivered the judgment stemming from …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake has been arrested on allegations of defying a ban on distribution of relief food to individuals. President Yoweri Museveni had earlier on advised that all relief supplies should be channeled through the National COVID-19 taskforce, to avoid exposing people …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan health specialists have downplayed fears that the African continent will be wiped out by coronavirus –COVID-19. They say that a number of countries, Uganda inclusive have already put in place enough mechanisms to reverse the havoc that the deadly virus would wreck on …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police is set to release all impounded motorcycles across the country following a directive by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday while addressing the country. Prompted by Amelia Kyambadde, the Minister in charge of Trade and Industry, the President said he had given amnesty to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court Civil Division has quashed an application in which Jinja Municipality sought to compel Eaton Towers Uganda which runs telecommunication masts to pay trading license fees worth more than Shillings 89 million. In his judgment delivered on Friday, Justice Musa Ssekaana declared …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Another truck driver tested positive for COVID-19, bringing to four the number of truck drivers who have tested positive for the viral disease. The latest case is a 27-year-old Kenyan truck driver who entered Uganda through Malaba border on Sunday. He is part of …
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Cape Town, South Africa | AFP | “Mr President we are in the middle of a food crisis. It’s war out here,” warned Joanie Fredericks, a community leader in Mitchells Plain township in Cape Town. The desperate plea was made in a video posted on social media to South African President …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Masaka district Covid-19 taskforce has donated relief food to communities in Nyendo-Ssenyange division. Nyendo-Ssenyange is one of three divisions making up Masaka municipality and accommodates thousands of underprivileged persons that live in the slums. According to the Masaka Resident District Commissioner Herman Ssentongo also …
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Washington, United States | AFP | The experimental antiviral drug remdesivir has proven effective against COVID-19 in a small experiment involving monkeys, US government scientists reported Friday. The study, which is preliminary and has not yet been peer reviewed, was designed to follow dosing and treatment procedures used for hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a large …
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