UPDATE UGANDA 🔸 12 new cases (UG truck drivers) 🔸 32 not allowed into country ✳ 73,904 Overall tests done ✳ 260 Total Confirmed cases ✳ 63 Recoveries ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has blocked 32 truck drivers from neighboring countries from crossing the border after …
Read More »Riek Machar tests positive for coronavirus
South Sudan rebel leader-turned-VP tests positive for coronavirus Juba, South Sudan | AFP | South Sudan’s first vice president, the former rebel leader Riek Machar, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, his office said Monday. Machar’s wife, Defence Minister Angelina Teny, and “a number of his office staff and …
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NEW MEASURES ✳ 1. Shops selling general merchandize will open provided they are not in the shopping malls, shopping arcades and food markets. ✳ 2. The heroic market women that have slept in the work places for all these days, will be allowed to go home and come back to work daily …
Read More »President’s COVID-19 update reinstated, on 8pm today
✳ 72,161 Overall tests done ✳ 248 Confirmed cases ✳ 63 Recoveries ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni will address the nation on Uganda’s COVID-19 situation as earlier planned at 8pm, Monday. An earlier decision to push the address to Tuesday, was reversed. ” After wide consultation, it has …
Read More »WANDIRA KAZIBWE: Curve is flat, time to ease lock down
✳ 72,161 Overall tests done ✳ 248 Confirmed cases ✳ 63 Recoveries ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Vice-President Dr. Specioza Wandira Kazibwe has said Uganda has contained the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and is well placed to ease the lock-down. She said that ‘technically’ …
Read More »Forget China, think local
New report by EPRC echoes global procurement experts on post-COVID business | THE INDEPENDENT | Businesses in Uganda should build new supply chains following the disruption to their old ones caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19. That is one of many takeaways from a business climate survey …
Read More »Museveni’s bad oil policy
The President has revealed three things about Uganda’s oil sector that are depressing and illuminating THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | In his interview with NBS television aired on May 11, President Yoweri Museveni revealed three things about Uganda’s oil sector that were depressing and illuminating. First he …
Read More »Why truck drivers spread COVID-19
What it means for taxis, bodaboda Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On average, each cross border truck driver in Uganda has contact with at least two sex partners per week, according to research. Given that over 31,588 long distance truck drivers are estimated by researchers to be living in …
Read More »Veteran of Entebbe Operation new Israel foreign minister
Israel ex-army chief Ashkenazi to serve as foreign minister: party Jerusalem, Undefined | AFP | Former Israeli army chief Gabi Ashkenazi, who spent nearly four decades in the military, will be nominated as Israel’s next foreign minister, his Blue and White alliance said Wednesday. Ashkenazi held talks with US Secretary …
Read More »MAGUFULI: Tanzanian prayers quelled the coronavirus
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | Tanzania President John Magufuli said Sunday that the number of coronavirus cases there had dropped drastically thanks to the populations’ prayers, and implied the epidemic might soon end. Magufuli’s government has been criticised for a lack of transparency regarding the toll that COVID-19 …
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