Tag Archives: COVID-19

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Trade and Cooperatives will put in place stopover centers for truck drivers in a move aimed at fighting the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). With trans-boundary cargo vehicle drivers and their crew appearing to be the main new threat of spreading …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | All members of the Watoto Children’s choir who had tested positive for COVID-19 have all recovered according to information from the church. 14 out of 22 members of the choir tested positive upon returning into the country from the United Kingdom. Watoto Church Associate …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wakiso district health authorities are set to conduct Covid-19 confirmatory tests for over 1500 people after completing their 14 mandatory isolation period. This includes people who been under self and institutional quarantine and returned to the country between March 11 and 20th this year. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Engineer Charles Banya Lwanga, one of the patients who have just recovered from coronavirus disease-COVID-19 has decried the hostility and stigma against travelers who entered Uganda during the month of March. The Ministry of Health has overtime stated that it is tracing over 18,800 people …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One of the greatest dangers that the world faces during the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic is complacency, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The UN agency says while countries were quick to put in place strict preventive measures to forestall the spread of the …

  COMMENT | Simon Peter Longoli | The year 2020 has already presented us with a stream of disasters, especially in the northeastern part of Uganda. Notable among these have been the credible risk of resurgence of livestock theft and rustling, the locust crisis and the biggest of them all …

Brussels, Belgium | AFP |  EU leaders are set to haggle on Thursday over a giant package to help their economies recover from the coronavirus pandemic, but bitter divisions mean little progress is expected. The situation facing the EU is dire: more than 110,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths and an economy set …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Julius Businge  |  Expenditure for the new budget should mainly focus on key sectors that must support revamping of the economy, according to civil society organisations under their umbrella group, Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG).  In a joint statement dated April 20, the group …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament’s Budget Committee has recommended that the government reviews and revises the National Budget for the coming financial year 2020/2021 in the wake of COVID-19. This is one of the committee’s recommendations in its report to Parliament in which it approved the appropriation of Shillings 45.493 …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Sweeping preventative measures seem to be curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the Great Lakes region of Africa, but the economic impact of the global pandemic threatens hard-won gains made along the long road back to peace and stability, a UN regional representative has stated.   …