President Yoweri Museveni President Yoweri Museveni has finally made good his threat and sued the Monitor Publications Limited for alleged defamation. Through his lawyers of K and K Advocates, Museveni contends that on February 23, 2021 Monitor Publications Limited falsely and maliciously caused to be written, printed and published an article
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AstraZeneca Plc’s vaccine for Covid-19, once expected to be a mainstay of protection for much of the world, remains shrouded in controversy as more countries limit its use even as scientists warn of the need for governments to tread carefully. The Netherlands joined a growing list of about a dozen places,
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The 61-year-old president, nicknamed "The Bulldozer", is serving his second term in office Questions have been raised over the health of Tanzanian President John Magufuli who has not been seen in public for 11 days. Opposition leader Tundu Lissu has told the BBC that according to his sources the president
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The Ministry of health says it will administer the AstraZeneca vaccine eight weeks apart despite studies showing that administering the vaccine 12 weeks apart leads to higher efficacy of the vaccines.According to a study published in the medical journal, the Lancet that took place in the UK people who got
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The vaccine is expected to be rolled out in Africa from next month The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved two versions of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, clearing the way for the vaccines to be shipped to African countries through the Covax scheme. Covax is a global
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A health worker takes a nasal swab from a patient in Cape Town, South Africa A coronavirus variant has been detected in Uganda that has a mutation similar to the fast-spreading variant in the UK, and has quickly become the most common coronavirus in Uganda's capital city Kampala, a pre-print study reported
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Students in private universities based in Kampala are having face to face lectures before the official dates set for reopening by Ministry of Education.The Ministry of Education and Sports directed on February 9th, 2020 that Universities and other tertiary institutions would start face to face sessions on March 1. The national
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Burial of COVID-19 victim in Namisindwa district/Courtesy photo As Uganda continues battling community infections, some Ugandans have resorted to paying hospital and mortuary staff for negative coronavirus reports for their loved ones who have succumbed to the pandemic. This comes almost three months after the Health Ministry stopping conducting burials
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Tanzania is one of the few countries in the world to not publish any data on Covid-19 cases/AFP A week after the US advised against all travel to Tanzania its embassy in the East African country has said it is "aware of significant number of Covid-19 cases since January 2021".
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