Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government is considering the vaccination of learners aged between 12 and 18, as one of the means to ensure safety and sustainable resumption of teaching and learning activities. The idea, according to Janet Kataha Museveni, the Minister in charge of Education and Sports, …
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🔴 Measures ✳ Curfew stays 7pm to 5am ✳ Schools remain closed ✳ Boda Bodas can carry 1 + cargo to 6pm ✳ Bars remain closed ✳ Salons open ✳ Restaurants to remain open ✳ Kikuubo open for wholesale, except corridors ✳ Mall open ✳ Burials not more than 20 …
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🔴 RESULT ➡ 🏆 10,000m final Barega ✳Gold Cheptegei ✳Silver Kiplimo ✳ Bronze Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT | Ethiopia’s Selemo Barega won the 10,000m final in a slow time of 27:43.22, denying Ugandans Joshua Cheptegei (27:43.63) and Jacob Kiplimo (27:43.88), who settled for silver and bronze. After a tactical race that …
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🔴 FRIDAY ATHLETICS 🇺🇬 ➡ 3000m M Steeplechase Round 1 – Chemutai 3.30am ➡ 800m W Round 1 – Nanyondo, Halimah Nakaayi 4.25 am ➡ 5000m W Round 1 – Chesang, Chelegant, Chebet 1pm ➡ 🏆 10,000m FINAL – Kiplimo, Kisa, Cheptegei 2.30pm Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT | The highlight …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Soccer governing body FUFA has named Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic head coach of Uganda Cranes. He will address the media on Tuesday 3rd August 2021. Micho led Cranes to their first appearance in the Nations Cup finals in 39 years, when they qualified for Ghana …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | Tanzania’s new position on containment of COVID-19 gains momentum tomorrow when President Samia Suluhu Hassan receives her first Coronavirus jab. It will mark the launch of the COVID-19 immunization campaign in Tanzania, a country that a few months questioned measures being taken worldwide to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni will address the nation at 8pm on Saturday on the status of the ongoing 42-day lockdown and measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic. He on July 18 reinstated some of last year’s tough COVID-19 measures, including a lockdown. According to President Museveni, the …
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Increasing catches on Lake Edward show fruits of co-operation For almost half a century, fishing on Lake Edward in southwestern Uganda has been dangerous for Ugandan fishermen because of its proximity to the insecure eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. About 70% of Lake Edward’s 2,325 sq km surface area is inside …
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Experts warn as phones of politicians are hacked Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Sometime in February 2020, then-Uganda Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda’s phone might have been hacked by Pegasus; a spyware manufactured by the Israel firm, NSO. The collaborative media investigation dubbed “Pegaus project” that outed the global spying …
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Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT | The first Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals were awarded Saturday. They have been produced using metals from nearly 79,000 tonnes of used phones and other electronic equipment donated by the Japanese public. Awarded, as is traditionally the case, by the IOC President, Thomas Bach, the …
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