🔺 May 27th – new COVID-19 cases 28 🔺 Total confirmed cases 281. 🔺 21 new cases are from South Sudan point of entry 🔺 7 new cases are contacts to previously confirmed truck drivers. 🔹7 positive foreign truck drivers (4 Tanzanians,1 Eritrean,1 Congolese and 1 Burundian) were handed …
Read More »Ugandan banks close at 2pm to allow staff beat curfew
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several commercial banks have announced they will revise down their closure time to allow staff enough time to drive home so as not to be caught by the 7pm curfew. While some banks have not yet indicated that they will shift from the …
Read More »Rebooting Uganda’s economy post COVID-19
Private sector present various stimulus packages to government on how kick-start business activities back to normal growth curve Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Life is slowly returning to normalcy in Uganda’s towns save for those that lie on the borders with neighbouring countries. Shops and restaurants are back to …
Read More »New look Kampala awaits motorists after lock-down
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | PICTORIAL | Many will find a new look to many areas of the city, as Kampala re-opens to private cars Tuesday after a two month lock down. There will be no taxis on the streets and the Old Taxi park is a reconstruction site! Kampala …
Read More »Former Cranes captain, legend Jimmy Kirunda dies at 70
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Former Cranes captain Jimmy Kirunda,70 has died. According to Ahmed Hussein, the Communications Officer of the soccer governing body FUFA, Kirunda reportedly collapsed while walking in Bwaise, on the outskirts of Kampala Monday afternoon and was pronounced dead moments later. Flamboyant, disciplined …
Read More »Uganda’s army and violence
How COVID-19 is offering hints of change | THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 crisis has magnified the excessive use of force by security forces in Uganda is pervasive and entrenched. Â This despite Uganda, like many countries around the world, having deployed its national armed forces for a noble cause of …
Read More »Escalation of torture in lockdown
It is disconcerting that mechanisms for holding government agents accountable are usually not effective in Uganda COMMENT |Â Edward Serucaca Jnr |Â Amidst the fight against a new enemy, the coronavirus disease Covid-19, old foes are rearing their ugly heads. In mid-April, the Independent MP Francis Zaake of Mityana Municipality was wheeled …
Read More »‘Face masks are an infection risk, give false sense of security’
To date, the WHO only recommends use of face masks for COVID-19 protection amongst healthy people only if they are caring for someone with a COVID-19 diagnosis or if they are coughing or sneezing themselves. COMMENT | Dr Bruce Tumwine Rwabasonga |Â President Museveni on May 19th, extended the national lockdown …
Read More »COVER STORY: Lake Victoria floods
What living in this historic moment means Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On May 20 there was heated debate about what should be done about thousands of people displaced or drowned and businesses and livelihoods destroyed by flooding around Lake Victoria. Earlier, the Minister of State for Environment, Beatrice …
Read More »MANIFESTO: Govt to set up sanitary pads plant
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports is planning to set up a factory to manufacture sanitary pads that will be distributed at no cost to all girls in school across the country. This will be in implementation of a presidential pledge to provide …
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