Tag Archives: COVID-19

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Ministry of Finance has unveiled a new Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS), aimed at ensuring value for money from the loans that are being borrowed for the next financial year.  The plan specifies how the government plans to structure its debt portfolio in the …

WHO assures availability of vaccine doses as manufacturer gets stretched Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda’s COVID-19 vaccination exercise has added speed over the last two weeks following President Yoweri Museveni’s getting vaccinated publicly on March 27. Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health said April 8 that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have halted the use of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) vaccine after recording six cases of people developing blood clots. In an announcement on Tuesday, the health bodies said the patients who …

Samuel Ocanya is the head of financial inclusion at Letshego Uganda, a microfinance company that offers SME, mortgage and education loans among other lending products. He spoke to Julius Businge on how small and medium enterprises can overcome the COVID-19 crisis. Most businesses have reported a drop in revenue and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda has said that the curfew time will be maintained despite calls by Members of Parliament to have it lifted. Rugunda was on Tuesday speaking during the plenary after Members of Parliament called for the curfew to be lifted to enable Muslims …

The conditions created by Covid-19 seem perfect for the price of gold to rise. Is gold now the best investment asset available? | MUSHTAK PARKER | These are challenging times for everyone as we enter the second year of a pernicious Covid-19 pandemic. There is a general consensus that the …

Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Amuru District Local Government has decided to use an iron hand to get all the frontline workers vaccinated against Covid-19. Most of them are reluctant to the jab.  So although being vaccinated in voluntary both in Uganda and the rest of the world, in Amuru district …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Police in Jinja city conducted a Monday night operation where they arrested 28 suspects, impounded 33 vehicles and 13 motorcycles as they enforced the ministry of health standard operating procedures-SOPs aimed controlling the spread of Covid-19. The suspects are currently detained at Jinja’s central police …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The COVID-19 pandemic is a long way from over but there are many reasons to be optimistic, according to the head of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Although January and February saw six consecutive weeks of plummeting COVID-19 cases, the World Health …

Nakasongola, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Nakasongola District council has lowered its local revenue expectations for the financial year 2021/22 after failing to meet targets in the past two financial years. According to the 2021/22 draft budget for Nakasongola, the district expects to collect 900 Million Shillings from local revenue below …