NEWS ANALYSIS

Anirban Mitra, a molecular biologist, explains why dead bodies can’t spread COVID-19 ANALYSIS | By Agencies | Here is a short, analogy-based summary of how the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19 disease infects the body and why funerals —if done with prescribed guidelines — are nothing to be alarmed about. …

How the rebellious Kasese district became launchpad for grand 223km infrastructure project ANALYSIS | Ian Katusiime | It was the launch of a big ticket project with newly re-elected President Yoweri Museveni fresh from naming his cabinet, hosting his counterpart from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); President Felix Tshisekedi, on …

  Washington, US | XINHUA | Jen Smith, a homeowner in an affluent suburb outside Washington DC, is not happy about U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan for neighborhoods like hers. “There’s a low-income development a couple of miles down the road,” the manager of a small company, in her late …

Can we defeat the virus again? COVER STORY | Ronald Musoke | Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health designate believes despite the current wave of deaths from the second wave, Uganda can defeat the COVID-19 pandemic as it did in the first wave – but it will require determined …

   Why government needs to think differently about where it needs to invest in order to effectively contain the pandemic THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | COVID has returned with a vengeance and is now ravaging Uganda. In March and April, the virus seemed to disappear. Out of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Zambia first President Kenneth Kaunda who died yesterday visited Uganda several times, first during Milton Obote’s two tenures as president and later after Museveni captured power in 1986. And even after retirement, he continued visiting Uganda and offered interviews to a couple of journalists. But …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY COVID-19 second wave: Can we defeat the virus again? THE LAST WORD Inside the COVID resurgence: Why government needs to think differently about where it needs to invest in order to effectively contain …

Benefits and dangers of steam inhalation therapy | THE INDEPENDENT | As Uganda battles a brutal second wave of the acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the agent that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there is still no effective antiviral treatment for the infection. Instead, non-pharmaceutical preventive interventions remain …

ANALYSIS  | THE INDEPENDENT |  On June 6, 2021, President Museveni delivered his much-anticipated speech in his second address to the nation since the newest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country. With scores of students infected according to recent media reports, the president only confirmed a lockdown many …

But opposition says new Vice President, Prime Minister deserve chance Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Katakwi and Kakumiro; two districts from where Uganda’s Vice President and Prime Minister have emerged and where the re-alignment of Uganda’s cabinet has been centered. President Yoweri Museveni rewarded the Teso sub-region which resoundingly …