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While some companies will need government assistance others are becoming part of the solution COMMENT | DAMBISA MOYO | If the 2008 global financial crisis laid bare the worst of capitalism, the private sector’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is already showcasing the very best. COVID-19 cases have now surpassed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new campaign to curb malaria infections has been unveiled to help citizens protect themselves at the time when all public health efforts are going into halting transmission of coronavirus– COVID-19. The campaign is a brainchild of the Rotarian Malaria Partners Uganda, an umbrella …

Washington, United States | AFP | After he had spent nearly three weeks in an intensive care unit being treated for COVID-19, Broadway and TV actor Nick Cordero’s doctors were forced to amputate his right leg. The 41-year-old’s blood flow had been impeded by a clot: yet another dangerous complication of …

Paris, France | AFP | In normal times, their canvas is the great urban outdoors, their collages and mosaics speaking to passers-by from city walls. But like everyone else, street artists must now stay home. Despite long inhabiting a legal grey area, the majority of urban art creators have taken COVID-19 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A team of critical UPDF doctors, nurses and other experts who have been supporting the treatment of the Coronavirus (COVID -19) patients at the Mulago National Referral Hospital have been released today. Dr. Byarugaba Baterana, the Mulago Specialised National Referral Hospital Executive Director released …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA councilors are seeking a special council sitting to discuss challenges facing the populace. On Monday, the Speaker of KCCA Abubaker Kawalya convened a business council meeting with some members of standing committees and resolved to meet the Minister for Kampala …

Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Busia have complained over delayed the distribution of Covid-19 relief food. The food worth 10,000 tonnes was donated by well-wishers to the district covid-19 task force. However, the food is still being kept at the main store of the district headquarters. The …

Kamopala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has exercised the powers given to him under article 121 of the 1995 Constitution to pardon 833 prisoners around the country. Speaking to reporters at the Uganda Media Centre on Monday, Frank Baine, the spokesperson of the Uganda Prisons Services …

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | The UN rights chief warned Monday that countries flouting the rule of law in the name of fighting the novel coronavirus pandemic risk sparking a “human rights disaster”. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called on countries to refrain from violating fundamental rights …

Kisoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has begun disinfecting all trucks that are entering the country as part of the country’s measures to forestall the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The disinfection process carried out by officials from the Uganda Red Cross begun today at the Bunagana border which …