Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police officers in Fort Portal are on the spot for assaulting journalists for allegedly defying the curfew orders. The journalists are Sylvia Kugonza, Fortunate Katungi, Joshua Ahabyoona and Ritah Kobusinge all working with Jubilee, a Catholic radio station located in Fort Portal Municipality. …
Read More »All cargo to Uganda to be switched to rail from June 1
Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | All transit cargo destined for Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan will from June 1 be picked from Naivasha and not Mombasa, or be transported by Metre Gauge Railway to Tororo, then Kampala. Fuel products will be transported by pipeline to Kisumu and thereafter through Lake …
Read More »Kitgum agro-input dealers reap big in lockdown
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Agro-input dealers in Kitgum district have realized a sharp rise in sales of seeds and farm implements during the COVID-19 lockdown. This comes as the majority of the community members have turned to subsistence and commercial agriculture as they utilize the lockdown period. Gertrude …
Read More »Gov’t to distribute seeds to 300,000 households in Acholi
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government through Operation Wealth Creation and National Agricultural Advisory Services is to start distribution of emergency seed support to more than 3,000 households in the eight districts of Acholi. This is part of t5he countrywide support Government has planned to cater for 30 percent …
Read More »Lockdown affects supervision of buildings under construction
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Works is unable to effectively enforce standards and quality of ongoing constructions due to the lockdown occasioned by the outbreak of COVID-19. This is according to the State Minister for works Joy Kabatsi in a statement presented to Parliament on Thursday. In …
Read More »Minister Kyambadde to visit border points to assess situation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, Amelia Kyambadde will this weekend visit the Uganda-Kenya Busia and Malaba borders as well as the Elegu border with South Sudan. She will travel to the borders to assess the situation of truck drivers awaiting to be tested …
Read More »MPs want Ugandans held in DRC prisons extradited
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have asked the government to negotiate the extradition of Ugandans stuck in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) prisons following the outbreak of coronavirus. According to reports from DRC, 41 cases of COVID-19 have been detected while five people have died in …
Read More »Trump says he finally wore a mask and ‘it looked very nice’
Ypsilanti, United States | AFP | President Donald Trump said Thursday he’d finally overcome his aversion to wearing masks against the coronavirus — but didn’t want be photographed. Touring a Ford auto factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where workers have converted to building respirators and other medical equipment for fighting COVID-19, Trump held up a mask …
Read More »EAC states face diplomatic spat due to COVID-19 tests
In a letter dated May 20, 2020, the Tanzanian government said that 15 of its truck drivers that had been blocked from entering Kenya after reportedly testing positive for coronavirus disease, had tested negative in Tanzania. On the basis of this, the Tanzanian Regional Commissioner Mrisho Mashaka Gambo said that …
Read More »COVID-19: Patients discharged from Gulu, Jinja hospitals
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The first COVID-19 positive patients admitted at Gulu and Jinja referral hospitals have been discharged. At Gulu hospital, a 41-year-old Ugandan male truck driver was admitted for treatment on May 1 after he was intercepted from Elegu border post. Dr James Elima, the Director …
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