Uganda agricultural earnings ✳ Coffee March-$45.87million April-$36.928m ✳ Tea March-$5.15m April-$6.145 ✳ Maize 🌽 March-$10.23m April-$6.256m ✳ Fish 🐠 March-$14.98m April-$6.831m Finance Ministry measures Post-Covid19 ➡ Delay payment of Corporation tax for Corporations & SME’s ➡ Defer payment of PAYE by sectors affected ➡ Capitalization of UDC ( 100bn) ➡Capitalization …
Read More »COVID-19 crisis delays construction of Kabale market
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed construction works on Kabale Modern Central market. Construction of the 23 billion Shillings market by the Chinese Chong Chuing International Construction Company started in December 2019 under the Markets and Agricultural Trade Improvement program – MATIP III …
Read More »WHO teams arrive in Mbandaka as DRC battles fresh ebola outbreak
Mbandaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nearly 50 staff from the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners have arrived in Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to tackle yet another outbreak of Ebola in the country. The responders carried 3,500 doses of Ebola vaccine and 2,000 cartridges …
Read More »Gulu leaders want gov’t to increase funding to Lacor hospital
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Gulu District have asked the Government to increase funding to St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor. The leaders argue the hospital is overwhelmed in offering comprehensive healthcare services among which includes physiotherapy, training healthcare workers and promoting health researches in Northern Uganda. The hospital depends …
Read More »Women in Egypt’s restive Sinai bring Bedouin embroidery to virus fight
Cairo, Egypt | AFP | In El-Arish, the provincial capital of Egypt’s North Sinai, a group of women sew colourful Bedouin designs on masks to combat coronavirus, as an insurgency simmers in their restive region. Egypt’s toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has reached over 28,600 cases, including more than 1,000 deaths, …
Read More »Ugandan security teams have killed six people in COVID-19 operations
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Six lives have been lost in the hands of security agencies implementing COVID-19 guidelines over the last 75 days when the country was under a lockdown which was declared to contain the spread of the deadly disease. The victims were shot by soldiers of the …
Read More »Health centre closed, 12 medical staff quarantined in Gulu
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Angaya health centre III in Unyama sub-county, Gulu district is temporarily closed and its staff quarantined. The move came shortly after a 72-year-old woman who visited the facility later tested positive for COVID-19. The woman allegedly picked the infection from her son she visited …
Read More »Kasese christians urged to remain strong amidst challenges
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Christians in Kasese district have been urged to remain strong amidst challenges of the recent floods and the COVID-19 pandemic. The call was made during the annual Martyrs day celebrations in the district which were led by Rev. Fr Joseph Mbusa, the Secretary of …
Read More »Covid-19 positive truck driver intercepted in Kampala
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police have intercepted a COVID-19 positive truck driver in Kampala. The driver of the Fuso truck registration number UAR 119G was intercepted at Kobil fuel station near Bat Valley causing panic and fear among nearby traders and pump attendants. He tested positive at …
Read More »Inadequate space hinders COVID-19 control measures at Mutukula border post
Mutukula, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Inadequate space at the Ministry of Health port laboratory in Mutukula is frustrating the COVID-19 testing exercise and control measures at the border post. The Ministry of Health last month commissioned a modern laboratory using the Genexpert technology at Mutukula border to support rapid …
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