Kampala, Uganda | Khisa Isaac | Nigerian-based financial and investment services company, United Capital PLC, on June.26 organised its first Pan African e-conference to discuss on how to boost cross-border financing solutions on the African continent. The session which was held via zoom and streamed live on the company’s YouTube …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Will 2021 elections happen?
Here is why the 2021 elections might not happen Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Simon Byabakama, the head of the Electoral Commission (EC) has been fielding a barrage of questions ever since he announced a revised roadmap for the 2021 general elections on June 16. Now, he might …
Read More »Health Ministry clarifies on unhappy Masaka COVID-19 patient
Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Uganda’s Ministry of Health has responded to a video critical of how COVID-19 patients are being treated in Masaka, saying what was recorded was a temporary shelter, as they await a well furnished main ward that is being renovated. The patient complained …
Read More »137 stranded Ugandans return from Afghanistan
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Some of the Ugandans who have been stranded in Afghanistan since the emergence of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) returned on Saturday evening. Majority of the 137 who returned were private security guards in Afghanistan. They arrived at 5:50pm aboard a flight operated by Egypt Air. Shortly …
Read More »Norbert Mao wants parliament to discuss postponing 2021 elections
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the debate on the recently released Electoral Commission revised roadmap that will see the 2021 elections held without mass campaigns rages, Norbert Mao, the DP president has said parliament should debate the possibility of postponing these elections. Speaking to Uganda Radio Network -URN …
Read More »COVID-19 cases in U.S. may be 10 times higher than reported, says CDC chief
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The number of people in the United States who have been infected with the coronavirus is likely to be 10 times as high as the 2.4 million confirmed cases, the chief of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday. CDC Director …
Read More »COMMENT: Is 2021 ‘scientific election’ informed by science, panic or opportunism?
Analysis of Uganda’s COVID-19-defined general elections COMMENT | JOSEPH MUKASA NGUBWAGYE | Last week, the Electoral Commission (EC) of Uganda launched a new road map for the 2021 general elections. The most controversial pronouncement was that the process, including campaigns and polling, will be “scientific”. In his words, the EC Chairman …
Read More »Bad outlook for Kampala’s residential properties
Rental offices are being re-occupied but landlords and occupiers will incur extra costs to meet health and safety measures Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Residential properties in Kampala have recorded an average of 16% decline in rental rates owed to restricted air travel of expatriates in the wake of …
Read More »Ultraviolet light reduces coronavirus transmission indoors: int’l research
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | An international research team suggests the use of ultraviolet light indoors to reduce the transmission of coronavirus, the northern Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) said on Tuesday. The recommendation is included in a study published in the journal ACS Nano, written by researchers from the …
Read More »COVID-19 reinforcing authoritarianism
As long as the coronavirus remains a threat, in either human or economic terms, every failure and every victory is a mark, however misleadingly, for or against particular political systems | SHADI HAMID | Authoritarianism, in theory, and authoritarian regimes, in practice, were already gaining ground before the spread of …
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