IGNORED! Matatu drivers, touts call out District Taskforce as hunger bites amid COVID-19 pandemic
The taxi drivers and touts engage District Task force demanding food relief. Kabale - Matatu (taxi) drivers and conductors on...
Month: May 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa AIDS deaths could double due to COVID-19, says UN
Patricia Musewu, a trained nurse and volunteer worker for a non-governmental organisation, Mumuni, takes the blood of a villager who...
6 bodies recovered close to 48 hours after collapse of building in Kansanga
Uganda Red cross staff carry one of the bodies recovered from the rubble. (COURTESY PHOTO) Kampala – It is close...
Eng. IRENE KAGGWA SSEWANKAMBO | ICTs and the 4IR: How can Uganda harness these?
UCC Boss, Eng. Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo (FILE PHOTO) The history of the communications industry dates back to when messages were...
Controls on Fake News affecting freedom of expression
AGENCIES | The Conversation | Governments across the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside the mountain of related...
COVID-19: Two hotels demolished in Nigeria ‘for breach of rules’ amid lockdown
What remains of Edemete Hotel and Prodest Home River State AGENCIES | BBC | The authorities in Nigeria's oil-rich southern...
BREAKING: Ugandan truck driver tests positive as infections rise to 122
Kampala — Uganda has, on Monday, May 11, registered 1 case of the novel coronavirus, perforating the COVID-19 infections tally...
Man arrested for defiling, infecting 4-year-old child with HIV
n Mbarara - Police in Mbarara has arrested a man for defiling a four-year-old child and infected her with HIV/AIDS....
MOSES MUHANGI | Part III: A case of Ghost Federations, What is a national sport?
Uganda Boxing Federation (UBF) President Muhangi Moses When I opened up the debate on Ghost federations in NCS, I anticipated...
Decomposing body found in Kabale
Kigezi Regional Police Spokesperson, Elly Maate, confirmed the reports. Kabale - Police have recovered a decomposing body of a 45...
Two officers held ‘incommunicado’ as CMI cracks whip on Police over espionage claims
ASP Benon Akakwandano, Community Liaison Officer for Kiira Police Station in Wakiso District Kampala – Two Junior Police officers have...
9 Kenyan truck drivers from Tanzania among 28 new COVID-19 cases, rising Kenya’s infections to 700
Kenya's Health Ministry CAS Dr. Rashid Aman Nairobi - Nine Kenyan truck drivers who arrived in the country from Tanzania...
Two COVID-19 taskforce members nabbed selling Relief food in Rukungiri
Rukungiri LCV boss Andrewson Katebire Rukungiri - Police is holding two members of the Rukungiri district coronavirus task force have...
Amuru Medic gruesomely killed in Land wrangle
The motor bike that was being used by the now deceased clinical officer Amuru - A senior Clinical officer and...
Former Security Minister Lt Gen. Tumukunde granted bail by Court
Rtd Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde appears in court via teleconferencing Luzira - Retired Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde has, on Monday,...
Countries set to lift lockdown as renewed outbreaks in China, South Korea show continued risk
AGENCIES | CNN | Hong Kong - "It's not over until it's over." That was South Korean President Moon Jae-in,...
Colombian airline Avianca files for Bankruptcy as COVID-19 pandemic grapples aviation business
AGENCIES | BBC | New York/Bogota - Colombia's national airline, Avianca, has filed for bankruptcy protection in a US court....
BREAKING: Five new cases confirmed as truck-drivers continue to test Uganda’s COVID-19 robust health system
Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Kampala — Five truck drivers, have on Sunday May 10, tested positive of...
Old Taxi Park to be rehabilitated, KCCA reveals
Kampala - KCCA have contracted Stirling Civil Engineering Ltd company and Kiru General Services Ltd to rehabilitate old tax park....
Thousands Throng Maracha for Suspected Virgin Mary Apparition
Area LC 1 Chairperson of Minako village showing Red Pepper the point where the apparition appears in an Ovacado tree...