Brussels, Belgium | Xinhua | Six African countries will be the first on the continent to receive the technology needed to produce mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) vaccines, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia will be part of a project that aims …
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Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | China is expected to bag its first Summer Olympic sprinter medal after Britain’s men’s 4x100m relay team was stripped of its silver medal at Tokyo 2020 after team member Chijindu Ujah was confirmed to have violated anti-doping regulations. Ujah underwent an in-competition doping test after the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Public Service and Local Government appalled by the consistent plea for Parliament’s intervention in their financing woes, have advised the local governments to seek audience with the President. The Secretary of Local Government Finance Commission (LGFC) while appearing before the committee on Thursday, …
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Madrid, Spain | Xinhua | Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti admitted on Friday that he got his side’s tactics wrong for their 1-0 Champions League defeat away to Paris Saint Germain on Tuesday night. Although it wasn’t until the 94th minute that Kylian Mbappe broke the deadlock, only a series of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Standard Bank has emerged as the most valuable banking brand on the African continent for 2022 in Brand Finance’s annual ranking of the world’s Top 500 Banking Brands, after increasing its brand value by 26% to USD1.583 billion, the financial institution said in a statement …
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Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Kiev authorities have to hold dialogue with representatives from Donbas to restore peace in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a briefing following talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow on Friday. “The President of Belarus and I agreed that the key to restoring …
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Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has directed Busia district to hire the services of Tororo District Commission and recruit parish chiefs. The term of the Busia district service commission expired in August last year and since then the district has failed to constitute another commission. The …
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Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Students and residents staying around villages near Uganda Christian University in Mukono municipality, are decrying increased cases of burglars using chloroform to steal their property. Locals claim that burglars use night hours to cut their house windows, spray chloroform in the house and take off …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nearly half (48 percent) of the deaths that were registered in the third wave were of persons that were not vaccinated according to the ministry of health. Records from the health ministry show that during the third wave of COVID-19 driven by the Omicron variant, …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Lands and the National Forestry Authority-NFA have resumed the boundary reopening of Bugoma central forest reserve in Kikuube district. In November last year, the government through the Ministry of Housing, Lands, and Urban Development embarked on the long-awaited reopening of the Bugoma …
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