South Africa and Egypt are already running human trials for a potential vaccine/Reuters The African Union Commission has launched a consortium for vaccine clinical trials aimed at securing more than 10 late-stage trials as early as possible. The new consortium will be headed by the Africa Centres for Disease Control
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Research done by McKinsey& Company a global management consulting firm revealed that clients who used digital platforms were 33% happier than those who used the traditional means of banking. Given the current circumstances, people should strongly embrace banking from the comfort of their homes. “It does not matter where you
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first elected female head of state in Africa, led Liberia during the West Africa Ebola outbreak The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia's former president, and Helen Clark, New Zealand's former prime minister, are to head a panel to review the
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Ugandan milk products are still finding it hard to access the Kenyan market resulting into collapse of some companies. Raising a matter of national importance, Rujumbura County MP, Fred Turyamuhweza said the Kenyan government is restricting milk from Uganda for no clear reasons. He said this has affected Uganda’s dairy
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More people could die from hunger as a result of the coronavirus pandemic than from the disease itself, an international charity warns. Oxfam says the crisis has disrupted harvests, food supplies and remittances in the poorest countries. It says middle-income countries such as South Africa, India and Brazil, have also
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African countries must carry out more coronavirus testing and make people use masks, a regional disease control body said on Thursday as cases topped half a million in the continent. New cases in Africa were up 24% over the past week, with data from governments and the World Health Organization
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The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development was tasked with getting street children off Kampala streets as a measure to contain the spread of the coronavirus among these youngsters. To that effect, Parliament allocated Shs2.4bn to Gender Ministry to carry out this exercise. However, street children are still roaming
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By Christopher Burke, WMC Africa Government support for the promotion of agriculture in the 2020/21 budget with the scrapping of VAT on agricultural equipment and processed milk are welcome steps in the right direction; however, care is required in the utilization of import duties to pursue import substitution associated with
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The Ministry of Health has confirmed 23 new cases of COVID-19 from tests done on 08 July 2020. The cumulative confirmed cases of Ugandans are now 1,000 while COVID recoveries are 908, the Ministry added. Of the 23 confirmed cases, 12 are Ugandan nationals who returned from abroad; 8 from
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President Lazarus Chakwera unveiled his 23-member cabinet/ Reuters photo Malawi's new President Lazarus Chakwera has named relatives as ministers in his new cabinet, sparking criticism. The president's former running mate in the 2019 elections Sidik Mia has been appointed minister for transport while his wife Abida Mia is the deputy
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