UPDATE: Uganda Covid19 ✳ 9,975 tested ✳ 55 confirmed cases ✳ 1 foreign (to be repatriated) ✳ 20 recoveries ✳ 35 active cases ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Uganda health officials and Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) have traced a Tanzanian driver heading to DRC who …
Read More »Uganda searching for COVID-19 positive Tanzanian driver
UPDATE: Uganda Covid19 ✳ 9,975 tested ✳ 55 confirmed cases ✳ 1 foreign (to be repatriated) ✳ 20 recoveries ✳ active cases 35 ✳ 0 deaths Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Uganda health officials have started a man-hunt for a driver from Tanzania whose test results have …
Read More »Humanitarian agencies fear looming locust catastrophe
Damage to crops and pasture already reported across Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Humanitarian agencies are warning of a humanitarian catastrophe in eastern Africa as a result of the ongoing desert locust invasion around the region. Eastern Africa hosts about 14 million refugees, the majority …
Read More »Twenty killed in Tanzanian church stampede
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | At least 20 people in Tanzania were trampled to death at an open-air evangelical Christian church service in the north of the country, officials said on Sunday. Government official Kippi Warioba, District Commissioner in the northern town of Moshi, said he feared the …
Read More »Tanzania ejects Uganda in 2020 FIFA U-20 women’s world cup qualifiers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tanzania has qualified for the next round of the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup qualifiers after defeating hosts Uganda 2-1 in the second leg played on Saturday at the StarTimes Stadium, Lugogo. This loss marks the end of the road for team Uganda, while …
Read More »Tanzania president moves to ease fears over election
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | Tanzanian President John Magufuli has promised this year’s general election will be “free and fair” and invited international monitors to observe proceedings amid concerns of a democratic crackdown in the East African nation. Magufuli’s long-ruling CCM party won 99 percent of seats in local …
Read More »Villa snap up Tanzanian Samatta in bid for survival
✅ First Tanzanian to score in the European CL ✅ First Tanzanian to score in the Europa League ✅ First Tanzanian to win the African CL ✅ First Tanzanian to play in the English Premier League London, United Kingdom | AFP | Aston Villa completed the signing of Tanzanian striker …
Read More »Rhino said to be world’s oldest dies aged 57 in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | A black rhino believed to be the oldest in the world has died in Tanzania at the age of 57, according to authorities in Ngorongoro where the animal was living. The female rhino, named Fausta, died of what is believed to be natural …
Read More »Who’s buying the biggest guns in East Africa?
Latest in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi firepower Kampala, Uganda | INDEPENDENT TEAM | Countries in the East African region continue to spend more on strengthening their armed forces, according to latest data. Although Kenya and Tanzania are the biggest spenders because of their relatively big budgets, most attention is on Uganda, …
Read More »EAC youth plot leadership role
A mix of politics, music, culture at YouLead Summit 2019 Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Over 250 youth from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan who converged in Arusha, Tanzania for the 2019 YouLead Summit were urged to rise up, take leadership roles and political power to …
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