The High Court has dismissed the application for a temporary injunction by 5 supermarket owners which sought to stop the roll out and operation of the Kakasa E-Invoicing solution (EFRIS) to particular tax payers on grounds that public interest should prevail over the private rights among many other reasons.The five
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In Kenya, doctors are mourning a colleague who died after contracting coronavirus, the country's main medics' union is saying. A colleague described the medic as a "young doctor with so much to offer". She was a gynaecologist who was hailed by many of her patients for her professionalism. The health
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Malawi’s new President Lazarus Chakwera (pictured above) has responded to criticisms of nepotism by saying that he had good reasons to select the cabinet that he did. He has included a husband and wife duo as well as people who are related to each other. There are also cabinet posts
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that indoor airborne transmission of the coronavirus may be possible after more than 200 scientists urged them to address it. The organisation has long said that the primary form of coronavirus transmission comes from respiratory droplets passed through close contact with people
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Ugandan economic growth is set to plunge to as low as 0.4% in 2020 from 5.6% last year as the coronavirus crisis batters the east African economy ahead of presidential elections set for 2021, the World Bank found. The pandemic is expected to hit tourism, exports, and remittances, a report
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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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