The new influenza strain was identified in pigs/File photo Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the U.S. science journal PNAS. Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in
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The State House Anti-Corruption Unit has arrested two businessmen who were found with five land titles of land already registered in Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s name. Col. Edith Nakalema who heads the Unit, said they received a complaint that the President’s private land at Katwekambwa in Kabulasoke Sub County, Gomba District
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UPDF officer, Brigadier Jackson Tushabe Bell has passed on according to reports. R0079 Col .Jackson Tushabe Bell, breathed his last at Nakasero Hospital in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. It is not yet clear what he succumbed to but he had been recently hospitalized. Bell who participated in the
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Burundi's newly-elected leader Evariste Ndayishimiye has named a new cabinet that includes two officials under US and EU sanctions. The leaner cabinet is composed of a prime minister and 15 ministers. They have the task of turning around the country's economy, security and improving relations with its neighbours, especially Rwanda.
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The group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of United Capital Plc has called on Africa to change it’s narrative if the continent is to find solutions to her challenges. Peter Ashade made the remarks while opening the Pan African E-Conference on Saturday. The E-conference, the first of its kind, was held
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Coronavirus cases across the globe surged past 10 million, a chilling reminder that the deadliest pandemic of the modern era is stronger than ever. The milestone is a rebuff to health experts and global leaders -- including U.S. President Donald Trump -- who had hoped early in the pandemic that
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Dr. Livingstone Sewanyana, the Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative More than 500 political, civil leaders, Nobel Laureates and pro-democracy institutions have signed an open letter to defend democracy, warning that the freedoms we cherish are under threat from governments that are using the crisis to tighten
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Former Buganda Kingdom Attorney General, Apollo Makubuya (pictured) has petitioned Parliament seeking to decolonize and rename streets in Kampala and other geographical features. He argues that the continued use of colonial names glorifies the slavery and brutality Ugandans endured at the hands of the British rule. Makubuya, who is the
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Hana Atsbeha The recovery from coronavirus of an Ethiopian man who is believed to be at least 100 years old was "incredible", one of the doctors who treated him told the BBC. Aba Tilahun Woldemichael's family says he is 114, which would make him the world's oldest man, but there
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Retired General Gregory Mugisha Muntu has resigned as national coordinator of the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) party. He is resigning from the party leadership to seek nomination to become presidential flag bearer of the same for next year's general polls. The out going National Coordinator Maj. Gen (Rtd) Mugisha
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