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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sellers of eggs in Kampala are stuck with hundreds of trays as the economy shut down due to coronavirus meaning key clients locally and abroad no longer buy. This has seen the price of a tray of eggs fall by at least 2000 shillings to …

The Hague, Netherlands | AFP | While the world waits for a coronavirus vaccine, medicines used to deal with the symptoms of the disease are increasingly in critically short supply in Europe, the worst-hit continent. From sedatives needed to intubate patients struggling to breathe to anti-malarial drugs heavily backed by US …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Finance has been tasked to consider suspending all new tax measures for the coming financial year 2020/2021 to help Ugandans cope with the effects of coronavirus pandemic. The request was made by the Finance Committee of Parliament during an interface with Minister …

London, United Kingdom | AFP | UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care in St Thomas’ Hospital in London with persistent coronavirus symptoms. Here’s how the COVID-19 crisis has unfolded for the embattled British leader. – Early response – The British leader has been criticised for initially not taking …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The increase of coronavirus cases in Uganda has resulted in increased surveillance from within communities, in order to trace contacts and monitor trends of the disease where human to human transmission occurs. This is what has become a full-time job for Moses Muhimbise, a …

Washington, United States | AFP |  Americans were put on notice Monday not to let up in the fight against the coronavirus, as a grim milestone of 10,000 deaths cast a pall over the first signs of optimism about the outbreak’s trajectory. The United States has emerged as one of the …

Conakry, Guinea | AFP |  Guinea’s President Alpha Conde has enacted a new constitution following a referendum last month on changes that critics fear are aimed at extending his time in office. Changing the constitution was hugely controversial in the west African nation, spurring mass demonstrations that left dozens dead. After …

Washington, United States | AFP |  In a residential neighborhood of the US capital, children are hunting for bears. Not the ferocious ones, of course — but stuffed animals peering out from neighbors’ windows. In Washington as in other cities and towns across America and around the world, the collective scavenger …

United Nations, United States | AFP |  The UN Security Council will on Thursday hold its first meeting on the coronavirus pandemic — by videoconference — after weeks of divisions among its five permanent members, diplomats said Monday. Last week, exasperated by the back-and-forth that has paralyzed the council, including between …

Dakar, Senegal | AFP |  A Senegal judge has granted Chad’s former dictator Hissene Habre two months’ leave from prison, where he is serving life for crimes against humanity, as the jail is being used to hold new detainees in coronavirus quarantine. Habre, who ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990, was …