The Ministry of Health has said no suspected Coronavirus patient was evacuated from downtown Kampala contrary to false reports. In a statement dated March14, 2020, Emmanuel Ainebyoona (pictured), SPRO-MoH says that the Ministry of Health surveillance teams yesterday, Friday 13th March 2020 received an alert from Royal Plaza of a
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Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has today quizzed officials from the Judiciary on how Shs1.4bn availed to the Judicial Training Institute was spent. Judiciary officials led by Pius Bigirimana, Secretary to the Judiciary appeared before PAC to answer to queries raised in the December 2019 auditor general’s report. When Nandala
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A Bukoto Midwest parliamentary hopeful is bitter with the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party handling of village registrars. Daraus Bahikire has since petitioned the Lwengo district NRM chairman over the mishandling of the exercise arguing that it will sow seeds of discord in the party that stands for peace
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The announcement of Kenya's first confirmed case of Covid-19 caused by coronavirus has caused anxiety in the country. The authorities said the patient - a Kenyan citizen who arrived in the country on 5 March from the US - was receiving treatment and that those she had been in contact
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Uganda's health ministry has advised school owners not to bar parents from visiting their children as awareness campaigns in the country over the coronavirus intensify. On Thursday, social media was awash with reports that some schools in the capital Kampala had issued advisories asking parents to stay away from their
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All elite football in England has been suspended until at least 3 April as a result of the spread of coronavirus. All Premier League games, EFL fixtures and matches in the FA Women's Super League and Women's Championship have been postponed. The Premier League said action would resume on 4
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Members of Parliament have expressed dissatisfaction with the long and tedious process of acquisition of new and replacement of national identity cards by the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), which they say has disenfranchised many Ugandans. Members debating a statement by the Minister of State for Internal Affairs, Obiga
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Uganda is likely to lose all its wetlands by 2040 going by the current rate of wetland degradation continues, a report from the Ministry of Water and Environment has revealed. The details are contained in a statement set to be tabled before Parliament by Beatrice Anywar (pictured), State Minister for
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The value of Uganda’s contingent liabilities has increased to USD75.076 million (about Shs278.5bn) as at December 2019 due to the sovereign guarantees government provided to Uganda Development Bank Ltd (UDBL) to enable the entity access financing from India and African Development Bank, a February 2020 report by Parliament’s National Economy
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As the coronavirus pandemic ravages the globe after it emerged in China just a few months ago, day-to-day life for millions of people has changed. Latest data, according to an AFP tally, indicates that there are now more than 124,000 infections across the world with 4,500 deaths. According to the
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