Tag Archives: Kabale

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kabale district covid-19 task force is struggling to trace the contacts of a truck driver who was intercepted at Uganda-Rwanda border of Chanika last week after testing positive to COVID-19. The truck driver who is currently admitted at Kabale regional referral hospital was intercepted …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale and Rukiga district COVID-19 taskforces are struggling to implement the President’s directives. The taskforces have failed to control burials and gatherings in bars as one of the preventive measures against the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. Last month, President Yoweri Museveni issued a ban …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The process of securing clearance to access health services in hospitals in Kabale has aroused complaints where mothers have opted to walk distances and avoid bureaucracies. In one of the measures to control the spread of coronavirus disease, the government advised expectant mothers and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale district health authorities are considering recalling all junior health workers on leave to boost manpower in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Reports from Kabale district health department show that the operations of the district COVID-19 taskforce are being hampered by inadequate manpower. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Passengers quarantined by health and security officials at Kirigime guest house in Kabale district over Covid-19 still are abusing the guidelines to directly contact members of the public. The 94 were confined at Katuna border on March 22 while traveling in two Jaguar buses from …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale Municipality authorities have issued a ban on street food vending as one of the preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID -19). Food vendors were mostly operating along Mitchel road behind Equity Bank, infront of Kabale municipal yard along Kabale-Mbarara highway, Kigongi, …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Metropolitan Innocentious Byakatonda, the Orthodox Archbishop in Charge of Burundi and Rwanda is among the 95 travelers quarantined at Kirigime Guest house in Kabale district. The 95 were traveling in two Jaguar buses from Rwanda to Uganda. They were initially confined at the no …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security officials on Saturday dispersed mourners at the burial of the late Amon Paddy Amanya, a businessman in Kabale town. Amanya was found killed by yet to be identified assailants on Tuesday and his body dumped on the roadside near highland tea factory in …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders and environmentalists in Kabale and Rubanda districts are advocating for the transformation of Lake Bunyonyi and its basin into a Ramsar site. A Ramsar Site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention that was established in 1971 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale district National Resistance Movement (NRM) youth leaders are protesting the declaration of Ezra Aryanyijuka as the party’s National Youth Council Finance Secretary. Aryanyijuka was declared unopposed by the NRM district registrar Maurice Mugenga Keitaba during polls held on Tuesday at Kabale district council hall. …