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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 …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Every day hundreds of trucks fan out from East Africa’s main ports in Kenya and Tanzania carrying cargo to the landlocked hinterland, and fears are rising they are becoming a major vector for the coronavirus. Their drivers gather at truckstops, weighbridges and customs points, socialising …

Unlike past occasions where MPs controversially paid themselves despite public outcry, they should be punished this time COMMENT | PETER WANDERA | A lot has been written and spoken about the Shs10 billion scandal in which each MP received Shs20 million. From the debates and justification given, one is left …

The company believes the new platform will take the business to the next level | THE INDEPENDENT | Mukwano Industries is one of the great success stories of the Ugandan business world. From humble beginnings as a general dealer in Kampala in the 1980s, the company has grown into one …

COMMENT | Rebecca Nalwoga Mukwaya | During one of his recent national addresses on the status of COVID-19, President Yoweri Museveni thanked health workers who have worked tirelessly to treat patients. He described their work as ‘world class’ as no death from the pandemic had occurred yet. Admittedly, the health workers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine Sunday night put up a live online performance from his home on the outskirts of Kampala, to mark Mother’s Day. The show dominated social media, coming at a time when live shows are no longer possible …

How it hurts Uganda’s ranking in the world | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has a bad underlying environment for journalists and taken together with the many acts of violence and abuses against journalists, has a very bad press freedom ranking compared to other countries. That is what the latest Press …

  Malaba, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The cumulative number of foreign truck drivers confirmed with COVID-19 in Uganda rose to 61 Sunday, after the Ministry of health announced five more positive tests. The truck drivers now account for over 50% of Uganda’s positive tests, that stand at 121. The …