Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Agro-input dealers in Kitgum district have realized a sharp rise in sales of seeds and farm implements during the COVID-19 lockdown. This comes as the majority of the community members have turned to subsistence and commercial agriculture as they utilize the lockdown period. Gertrude …
Read More »Gov’t to distribute seeds to 300,000 households in Acholi
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government through Operation Wealth Creation and National Agricultural Advisory Services is to start distribution of emergency seed support to more than 3,000 households in the eight districts of Acholi. This is part of t5he countrywide support Government has planned to cater for 30 percent …
Read More »Lockdown affects supervision of buildings under construction
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Works is unable to effectively enforce standards and quality of ongoing constructions due to the lockdown occasioned by the outbreak of COVID-19. This is according to the State Minister for works Joy Kabatsi in a statement presented to Parliament on Thursday. In …
Read More »Minister Kyambadde to visit border points to assess situation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, Amelia Kyambadde will this weekend visit the Uganda-Kenya Busia and Malaba borders as well as the Elegu border with South Sudan. She will travel to the borders to assess the situation of truck drivers awaiting to be tested …
Read More »MPs want Ugandans held in DRC prisons extradited
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have asked the government to negotiate the extradition of Ugandans stuck in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) prisons following the outbreak of coronavirus. According to reports from DRC, 41 cases of COVID-19 have been detected while five people have died in …
Read More »Trump says he finally wore a mask and ‘it looked very nice’
Ypsilanti, United States | AFP | President Donald Trump said Thursday he’d finally overcome his aversion to wearing masks against the coronavirus — but didn’t want be photographed. Touring a Ford auto factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where workers have converted to building respirators and other medical equipment for fighting COVID-19, Trump held up a mask …
Read More »EAC states face diplomatic spat due to COVID-19 tests
In a letter dated May 20, 2020, the Tanzanian government said that 15 of its truck drivers that had been blocked from entering Kenya after reportedly testing positive for coronavirus disease, had tested negative in Tanzania. On the basis of this, the Tanzanian Regional Commissioner Mrisho Mashaka Gambo said that …
Read More »COVID-19: Patients discharged from Gulu, Jinja hospitals
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The first COVID-19 positive patients admitted at Gulu and Jinja referral hospitals have been discharged. At Gulu hospital, a 41-year-old Ugandan male truck driver was admitted for treatment on May 1 after he was intercepted from Elegu border post. Dr James Elima, the Director …
Read More »Foreign truck drivers off list as Uganda revises COVID-19 cases
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has revised the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country by removing the number of foreign truck drivers from its cases following a decision made by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The total number of confirmed cases in the country has now been …
Read More »MPs push for free water, electricity
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Members of Parliament want government to waive water and electricity bills for six months following the lockdown brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. The legislators argue that the lockdown which came into force in March has left Ugandans incapacitated economically and …
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