Uganda will receive its first COVID-19 vaccine in March 2021, with Government saying the vulnerable groups considered first. The revelation was made by the Country’s Prime Minister, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda during Friday’s plenary sitting at Parliament. He was responding to a question posed by Elijah Okupa (Kasilo County) who tasked
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EC boss, Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi The Electoral Commission has appointed Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd December 2020 as dates for conducting fresh nominations electoral areas where death occurred of a nominated candidate. According to Electoral Commission Chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi, this is in accordance with Section 26 of
Read MoreUganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) and French soldiers have completed a seven-day joint mountain operation exercise. The exercise that was conducted on Rwenzori mountain saw soldiers climb to its peak, Margherita. The activities conducted during the exercise included; first aid, counter Improvised Explosive Devices(IED), logistics platoon, combat platoon as well
Read MorePharmaceutical companies should sell COVID-19 vaccines to African countries at discounted rates and allow them to be produced locally to potentially cut costs, the head of the continent’s disease control body said on Thursday. Africa is aiming to vaccinate up to 60% of its 1.3 billion people in the next
Read MoreA team of 10 international scientists will travel to the Chinese city of Wuhan next month to investigate the origins of Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Beijing has been reluctant to agree to an independent inquiry and it has taken many months of negotiations for the WHO
Read MoreBy Amon Baita Over 200 Local external recruitment agencies are in trouble over failure to externalize domestic workers to Saudi Arabia yet they received advance payments from Saudi agencies before Covid 19 lockdown came into force early this year. The revelation was made by Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies
Read MoreURA and South Sudan National Revenue Authority have agreed to strengthen stakeholder and trade relations between the two partner states. This was during a bilateral meeting between the two revenue authorities at Elegu OSBP yesterday. Representing the URA CG, Abel Kagumire, the Commissioner Customs, shared URA's 5-year corporate plan and revenue performance over
Read MoreThe Electoral Commission has appointed Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd December 2020 as the dates for nomination of candidates for election of Member of Parliament representing Workers, Youths, Persons with Disabilities and Older Persons. According to Paul Bukenya, the Acting EC Spokesperson, the nominations shall be conducted at the Electoral
Read MoreUganda's President Yoweri Museveni has written to the country's Land Commission boss asking her to secure land for the Uganda Heart Institute in Naguru, a suburb in the capital Kampala to set up Cardia centre of excellence. The Letter seen by this publication is dated 14th October and addressed to
Read MoreAs diplomats gathered at the African Union’s headquarters earlier this year to prepare for its annual leaders’ summit, employees of the international organization made a disturbing discovery. Someone was stealing footage from their own security cameras. Acting on a tip from Japanese cyber researchers, the African Union’s (AU) technology staffers
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