Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (pictured) on Tuesday said the country has received green monkey cells which are critical in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. Museveni said that the acquisition of the green monkey cells is a big boost in the country's quest to develop a COVID-19 vaccine to address
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Equity Bank Rwanda was hacked in 2019 Eight Kenyans arrested in Rwanda for hacking Equity Bank have been handed eight-year jail terms and fined Sh5.6 million. The eight are part of a 12-man gang arrested in 2019 by the Rwandan Investigation Bureau (RIB) that included three Rwandese nationals and a Ugandan. Regional
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Five police officers have been suspended from duty in Soroti for allegedly assaulting a trader at Nakatunya Ward in Soroti City. The officers were captured in a video beating a trader identified as Moses Ongodia in his Supermarket located in Nakatunya Ward, Along Lira Road. The incident happened on Sunday
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By Ignus de Villiers Group Head of Cyber Security Since the era of computers began, we have manifested an entire new universe with enormous benefits and cutting-edge technology that has made our lives a million times easier in comparison to that of our ancestors. It even seems fair to go
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There's reduced economic activity in Uganda The monthly Stanbic Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) dropped to 34.9 in June from 56.5 in May attributed to government’s lockdown measures that were announced to tame the spread of COVID-19. The reading signalled deterioration in business conditions for the first time in five months,
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Absa Bank Uganda Managing Director, Mr. Mumba Kalifungwa Absa Bank Uganda and MTN Mobile Money Uganda Limited have today announced the introduction of mobile money payment functionality, also known as MTN MoMoPay on Absa Point of Sale (POS) machines/terminals. The service is open to all MTN Uganda mobile money account holders,
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State House has tasked telecom regulator, Uganda Communication Commission to investigate Social Media users declaring President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni either very sick or dead. In her press statement, Linda Nabusayi Wamboka, the Senior Presidential Press Secretary, says that the only reason President Museveni is no longer visible is that he
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Amidst the growing anxiety and untamed rush to finding an effective remedy for COVID-19, many unsuspecting members of the public in Masaka district are rushing to buy K-COVIDEX, another herbal-based concoction. This comes amidst the warning from the Health Ministry to the public against using unverified medicines in COVID-19 management due
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A team of private health service providers came under fire from the COVID-19 Taskforce of parliament for holding the bodies of COVID-19 victims and patients over unpaid bills. Several families whose families have succumbed to COVID-19 have failed to pick their bodies from private facilities because of exorbitant treatment charges.
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Ministry of Education has spent huge sums of money in contracts to print learning materials after failing to procure a printing press for the National Curriculum Development Centre, URN has learnt. Contract reports on the COVID19 emergency education response posted on the Ministry of Finance website shows that the Ministry
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