Mayor Lukwago (L) Chairs KCCA meeting After assessing the impact of COVID-19 to city businesses, the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) cabinet has resolved to suspend Trade Licenses, Market Dues and Commercial User fees to allow business Community recover from the toxic effects of the pandemic. The meeting that was
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Sex workers living with HIV in Uganda have stopped taking their medication because of a lack of food and income as restrictions have left them with no clients. The government has been giving food aid to some of those who are most affected by the restrictions that have been in
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Africa’s largest multilateral lender the African Development Bank board says it has not asked its president, Akinwumi Adesina, to step down. It said it was treating allegations levelled against Mr Adesina with the seriousness they deserve after the US rejected findings of a probe made into allegations of favouritism against
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Uganda’s Ministry of Health has announced 36 new COVID-19 cases from samples of May28, 2020. The total confirmed cases are now 317. “24 new cases are truck drivers-20 arrived via Elegu, 2 via Malaba and 1 was from Lia Point of Entry in Arua,” Health Ministry said. For updates and
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Diamond Trust Bank Staff at Busia border Banks have started equipping their staff at border points with protective gears as COVID-19 cases from truck drivers increases. Border points have become high risk areas in recent weeks posed by truck divers entering Uganda from Kenya and other points. Diamond Trust Bank
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The local currency traded flat against the dollar on muted demand. The shilling was on one hand supported by end month flows from charities and coffee export flows coupled by BOU liquidity mop up operations that took out 839 billion equivalent to 222 million USD. In interbank shilling market overnight
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Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Thursday issued guidelines for public transport re-opening following suspension in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19. Below are the guidelines; 1. With effect from today 28th/5/2020, all taxi operators should report to KCCA to be assigned the parks/stages and routes where they
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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (pictured) has revealed how his son violated a government dusk-to-dawn curfew order issued to prevent the spread of coronavirus. He said one of his two sons, whom he did not identify, recently went out to party at night in the coastal city of Mombasa - an
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Normal operations in the Courts in Uganda shall have to wait until the general opening of public transport, the Chief Justice, Bart M. Katureebe (pictured), has said. The directive is contained in the Revised Contingency Measures to Prevent and Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in the Judiciary Circular issued on
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Members of Parliament have opposed the re-opening of schools for candidate classes citing ill preparedness by government, schools and parents. President Yoweri Museveni in his recent address directed that schools to re-open for candidate classes as one of the measure of easing the coronavirus lock down. For updates and latest
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