Tag Archives: Uganda

✳ Schools to re-open for finalists ✳ Border district restrictions ✳ Curfew will be maintained ✳ Places of worship to resume with SOPs ✳ Sports reopen with no spectators ✳ Bars remain closed Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said the country is now ready to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Reports from Makerere University indicate that Police Fire Brigade is trying to put out a fire which has now covered almost half of the roof of the institution’s main building. All indications are the fire started just after mid-night. “The fire brigade is on …

UPDATE 🔺 September 19th – new COVID-19 cases 423 🔺 Total confirmed cases 6,017. 🔹 Total Deaths: 63 🔸Total Recoveries: 2,581 🔹Samples from Points of Entry tested today: 306 🔸Samples from community and contacts: 2,014 🔹Samples tested today: 2,320 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has today announced 423 new …

  The amazing story of the Rwenzori Mountains COMMENT | By Amos Wekesa | In the last thee weeks, we have seen lots of updates on Rwenzori Mountains on different platforms, and we must give credit to the Mountain Slayers…. The ‘Mountains slayers’  aren’t your usual slay queens and slay kings, but are …

   Ten Thousand Stories and more from Africa’s most loved storyteller – MultiChoice Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  MultiChoice Uganda today hosted its first ever fully online Media Showcase as it celebrated its drive to bring its audiences ‘African stories told by Africans’. The event streamed live from Kampala, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Are we ready for more COVID dead?: Here’s why gov’t thinks THE LAST WORD The real thieves of teachers’ money: The real story of how teachers’ money was stolen and how the wrong …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A bus belonging to parliament that was being used to evacuate 25 COVID-19 patients from Kitgum to Kampala has caught fire. The bus registration number UG 0391 H burst into flames in Koro trading along Gulu-Kampala highway around 4 pm on Thursday. The Aswa …

Bank of Uganda should utilize its mandate to regulate spending during 2021 electoral processes COMMENT | Fred Kasalirwe | The recently concluded National Resistance Movement (NRM) primaries have seen massive monetization of the electoral processes with huge sums of money seen exchanging hands to influence voters’ decisions. If this is just …

The bank is targeting businesses that are hit hard by COVID-19 Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | With the easing of the lockdown and slow recovery of the economy impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, financial institutions are now looking at how to reboot businesses and put them back to their …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, Uganda’s minister of health has given the green light to scientists from Makerere University and their partners to proceed with clinical trials for treating COVID-19 patients using convalescent plasma. Aceng was speaking as chief guest at the launch of the Uganda …