Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kibuku district has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies and school drop outs among girls in the country, a new report has revealed. The findings are contained in a report by both Bukedi Action for Integrated Development Initiatives – International (BAfIDI), a local non-governmental …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 task force in the different districts of Tooro is struggling to enforce the presidential directives on COVID-19. After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, President Yoweri Museveni issued several directives aimed at preventing the spread. These include the closure …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private providers says they wouldn’t be able to jump in immediately and start offering COVID-19 tests should the number of people requiring the tests spiral out of control today. Michael Kamya, who heads the Microbiology Lab at Lancet Laboratories Uganda says while they have …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Chaos nearly erupted in Arua main market on Tuesday when a combined team of Police, UPDF and Arua municipal officials forcefully evicted roadside vendors along Arua-Nebbi road and the makeshift market. More than 200 vendors have been selling items along Arua-Nebbi road and the main …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Construction works at Hoima International Airport has been suspended over COVID-19. The contractors SBC/SBI Lloyds British International has sent home over 900 workers that have been working in the different departments. Amos Muriisa, the Public Relations officer SBC told Uganda Radio Network on Tuesday that …
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Kaberamaido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Twenty five children belonging to members of a Christian cult group in Kaberamaido district have forcefully been vaccinated. They are among 40 members of the cult who were arrested by police for defying the suspension of congregational prayers as part of the COVID-19 preventive measures. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The outbreak of the COVID-19 has presented a number of challenges in the fight against desert locusts that have resurfaced in parts of Uganda. Agriculture Minister Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja says that they are currently unable to buy nose masks because of the stiff competition …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has cleared the People Power to deliver relief to the National coronavirus task force. Last week, People power had started distributing relief but it was stopped by the government. URN has now learnt that items including flour, beans, salt and soap will …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 25,000 people in the districts of Kampala and Wakiso have received relief food from the government over the last three days. The food was given out as one of the interventions to support families whose livelihood was disrupted by measures to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sellers of eggs in Kampala are stuck with hundreds of trays as the economy shut down due to coronavirus meaning key clients locally and abroad no longer buy. This has seen the price of a tray of eggs fall by at least 2000 shillings to …
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