Tag Archives: COVID-19

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Child Fund International has disbursed  1.4 billion Shillings to nine of its partners to make cash transfers to 29,000 households because of the COVID-19 lockdown. Moses Otai, the Country Director Child Fund says their country office decided to reallocate the available funds to respond …

                             KAMPALA, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Evidence Action – an international NGO with its Africa regional headquarters in Nairobi – has launched the COVID-19 Prevention Hygiene Project in 11 Ugandan districts to support rural communities in slowing the spread of COVID-19. This project …

Rome, Italy | AFP | Juventus said Wednesday that French midfielder Blaise Matuidi and Italian defender Daniele Rugani had recovered from coronavirus after testing positive for it last month. Rugani was the first Italian top-flight footballer diagnosed with the virus on March 11. World Cup winner Matuidi also tested positive for COVID-19 a few days …

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP & WHO | The World Health Organization said Wednesday it was reviewing what impact the US decision to halt funding would have, and said it was looking to others to help fill financial “gaps”. “WHO is reviewing the impact on our work of any withdrawal of US …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An Extraordinary Summit of the East African Heads of State which had been purposely convened to discuss the ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been postponed on request by South Sudan. The summit which was to be held via video conferencing had been called …

  The most recent 2014 population census indicates that 12.4 percent of the Ugandan population live with a disability COMMENT | Ambrose Murangira | The government of Uganda has started the distribution of food and essential items to the most vulnerable people across Kampala and Wakiso. This will be a measure …

Kigungu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A cross section of residents in Kigungu are demanding that government also distributes relief food in their area because they are not earning any income due to the imposed lockdown and curfew. On 4th April, the government started distributing food in Kampala and Wakiso …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has released Shillings 165 million to districts to intensify the campaign against the COVID-19 pandemic. It follows the approval of a supplementary budget of Shillings 304 billion by parliament last week to combat the spread of …

Washington, United States | AFP |  Can an app contain the pandemic? Interest is growing in smartphone technology as a potential key to ending lockdowns and reopening economies around the world. Digital “contact tracing” would allow mobile systems to log instances where people have been in proximity with an infected person …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Self-isolation has driven more and more children to move online during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an unprecedented rise in screen time and raising safety risks for millions of young people, according to Child Rights defenders. More than 1.5 billion children and young people have …