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South Sudan rebel leader-turned-VP tests positive for coronavirus Juba, South Sudan | AFP | South Sudan’s first vice president, the former rebel leader Riek Machar, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, his office said Monday. Machar’s wife, Defence Minister Angelina Teny, and “a number of his office staff and …

NEW MEASURES ✳ 1. Shops selling general merchandize will open provided they are not in the shopping malls, shopping arcades and food markets. ✳ 2. The heroic market women that have slept in the work places for all these days, will be allowed to go home and come back to work daily …

NEW MEASURES ✳ 1. Shops selling general merchandize will open provided they are not in the shopping malls, shopping arcades and food markets. ✳ 2. The heroic market women that have slept in the work places for all these days, will be allowed to go home and come back to work daily …

✳ 72,161 Overall tests done ✳ 248 Confirmed cases ✳ 63 Recoveries ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni will address the nation on Uganda’s COVID-19 situation as earlier planned at 8pm, Monday. An earlier decision to push the address to Tuesday, was reversed. ” After wide consultation, it has …

✳ 72,161 Overall tests done ✳ 248 Confirmed cases ✳ 63 Recoveries ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Vice-President Dr. Specioza Wandira Kazibwe has said Uganda has contained the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and is well placed to ease the lock-down. She said that ‘technically’ …

New report by EPRC echoes global procurement experts on post-COVID business | THE INDEPENDENT | Businesses in Uganda should build new supply chains following the disruption to their old ones caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19. That is one of many takeaways from a business climate survey …

New report describes roving bandits and looted coastlines | THE INDEPENDENT | We may run out of sand if we do not start paying attention to sand as a resource that needs research, management and governance. That is the conclusion from a study by researchers from the University of Ottawa …

What it means for taxis, bodaboda Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On average, each cross border truck driver in Uganda has contact with at least two sex partners per week, according to research. Given that over 31,588 long distance truck drivers are estimated by researchers to be living in …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | With Uganda’s COVID-19 statistics heading towards 300, President Yoweri Museveni is expected to reassure the nation on Monday on steps to control the pandemic, and ease the lockdown.  Lindah Nabusayi, Press Secretary to the President confirmed this Sunday. When President Museveni last addressed …

UPDATE UGANDA 🔸 24 new cases (truck drivers) ✳ 69,729 UG Tests done ✳ 227 Confirmed cases ✳ 63 Recoveries ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AGENCIES | Uganda’s COVID-19 cases rose to 227 Saturday, after the Ministry Of Health confirmed 24 new cases involving truck drivers. This …