The Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) has procured new bull dozers, hydraulic excavators and maintenance mobile trucks to boost Uganda’s agro-industrialization agenda. This new fleet that landed in Namalere mechanical workshops last week is expected to be launched by President Yoweri Museveni and will be added to
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It is "very rare" for patients not showing symptoms of Covid-19 to spread it, says a top World Health Organisation official. Such patients may in fact have a mild disease that is not related to coronavirus, according to Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, who is the technical lead for the WHO's
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Kenya and her neighbour Uganda are at loggerheads again, but this time over use of the inland container depot in Naivasha. Whereas the former wants to make the facility viable after months of inactivity, the latter wants to protect its multi-billion-shilling investments at the port of Mombasa. Uganda is not
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe contractions of economic activity. It has caused a combination of global supply chain disruptions, travel restrictions, limits of personal contacts among others. To overcome the toxic effects of the pandemic, experts have revealed measures East Africa countries should implement to ensure economic recovery post
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Retired Ugandan army Major General, Kasirye Gwanga is dead. Gwanga passed on at Nakasero Hospital in the capital Kampala. He was 68 at the time of his death.
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The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has requested Ministry of Health to test all staff for COVID-19. This follows social media reports indicating that some Finance Ministry staff had contracted the deadly disease. FOR MORE INFO & LATEST UPDATES ABOUT COVID-19 SITUATION IN UGANDA CLICK HERE. However, the
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A South Sudanese businessman and former intelligence officer says he has launched a new rebel group and intends to overthrow what he calls the corrupt leadership of the country. The government has not yet commented. Kerbino Wol has called it the Seventh of October Movement - a reference to the
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Tanzania's President John Magufuli (pictured) has declared the country "coronavirus-free" thanks to prayers by citizens. "The corona disease has been eliminated thanks to God," Mr Magufuli told worshippers in a church in the capital, Dodoma. He also praised them for not wearing masks and gloves. The World Health Organization (WHO)
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New Zealand has eliminated transmission of the coronavirus domestically and will lift all containment measures except for border controls, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (pictured) said on Monday, making it one of the first countries to do so. Public and private events, the retail and hospitality industries and all public transport
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South Sudan's First Vice-President Riek Machar (pictured) and his wife, Defence Minister Angelina Teny, have recovered from Covid-19, local media report. The two tested positive for coronavirus three weeks ago. The Sudan Tribune newspaper quoted a statement from Mr Machar's office as saying that he had been discharged on Saturday
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