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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Response Fund for Covid-19 has appealed to all company heads to help raise sh10,000 from each of their employees in Uganda in the next two months. The committee aims to raise sh30 billion to add to their target of 70 Billion and 10 …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | With Uganda’s COVID-19 statistics heading towards 300, President Yoweri Museveni is expected to reassure the nation on Monday on steps to control the pandemic, and ease the lockdown.  Lindah Nabusayi, Press Secretary to the President confirmed this Sunday. When President Museveni last addressed …

  Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The rivalry between the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga and Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah has once again come to the fore, with a proposal reportedly aimed at impeaching Oulanyah in offing. MPs from the Busoga caucus reportedly started collecting signatures to impeach Oulanyah …

UPDATE UGANDA 🔸 24 new cases (truck drivers) ✳ 69,729 UG Tests done ✳ 227 Confirmed cases ✳ 63 Recoveries ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AGENCIES | Uganda’s COVID-19 cases rose to 227 Saturday, after the Ministry Of Health confirmed 24 new cases involving truck drivers. This …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health will with immediate effect counsel and test all truck drivers employed in Uganda. No truck driver will also be allowed from entering the country from tonight unless they have negative COVID-19 results. All those tested, will then have to adopt …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Why truck drivers spread COVID-19: What it means for taxis, bodaboda THE LAST WORD Museveni’s bad oil policy: The President has revealed three things about Uganda’s oil sector that are depressing and illuminating …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One hundred and eighty of the 833 prisoners recently pardoned by President Yoweri Museveni were Rwandans. The release of the 180 Rwandans is a sign that despite the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic,  Uganda is continuing to implement measures agreed in the Luanda Peace …

UPDATE UGANDA 🔸 21 new cases (truck drivers) ✳ 67,171 UG Tests done ✳ 160 Confirmed cases ✳ 63 Recoveries ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has just confirmed the country’s highest number of COVID-19 positive tests in a day – 21 of …

UPDATE UGANDA 🔸 13 new cases (truck drivers) ✳ 65,275 tested ✳ 139 Confirmed cases ✳ 55 Recoveries ✳ 0 deaths SOURCE MOH Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has just confirmed 13 new COVID-19 positive cases, the second time in a week that this high …

KCCA PLANS 🔵 Register Boda Bodas and Taxis operating in the City 🔵 Creating a digital data base of those operating in the City 🔵 Gazette Parks, stages, routes and stops for taxis and Boda Bodas 🔵 Introduce route numbers and rout colors for all the taxis 🔵 Identification of drivers/riders …