VIDEO: US gov’t report assesses China intentionally concealed severity of COVID-19
AGENCIES | CNN | Washington DC - The Chinese government intentionally concealed the severity of the coronavirus from the international...
Month: May 2020
VIDEO: Night burials amid Tanzania’s coronavirus defiance
Tanzania President Magufuli AGENCIES | BBC News| Videos of night burials have been circulating on social media in Tanzania causing...
Thousands homeless as floods, landslides hit Kenya
A man takes a photograph of a flooded village after River Nzoia burst its banks and due to the backflow...
Kenyan truck driver tests positive, rising Uganda COVID-19 cases to 89
Trucks being sprayed at a border point of entry recently. KAMPALA— The Ministry of Health has confirmed a new case...
Prof. Benon Bashaka ascends to Deputy VC Kabale University, hands over former office
Kabale - Prof. Benon Basheka the newly appointed Kabale University Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs has been handed over the...
UPDF soldier on run for gunning down Senior Military officer
UPDF Spokesperson Brig. Richard Karemire Nakasongola - A UPDF senior military has, on Sunday evening May 3, been shot dead...
COVID-19: 104 Quarantined as Police embark on sanitising Masindi Police Barracks
Masindi - Uganda Police top brass has, on Sunday, May 3, held a meeting with District Management teams in efforts...
Maracha LC5 boss demands apology for ‘Political Virus’ attack
Maracha - Maracha District Chairperson tasks lower Local Government councillors to apologise to him, for launching on him, what he...
President Magufuli dismisses accuracy of COVID-19 testing kits after goat, pawpaw test positive
Dar es Salaam - Tanzanian President John Magufuli has, on Sunday, May 3, dismissed coronavirus testing kits as faulty after...
Kenya records 30 new cases as COVID-19 total perforates to 465
Nairobi - Kenya has recorded 30 more cases of the novel coronavirus bringing the total to 465. Health CAS Dr....
JUDITH NABAKOOBA | World Press Freedom Day: Uganda Government Creates UGX6bn COVID-19 Fund for Media Houses
Today 3rd of May is the World Press Freedom Day. It is the day when we all stop to recognise...
ANTÓNIO GUTERRES: Journalist are an antidote for misinformation
Journalists and media workers are crucial to helping us make informed decisions. As the world fights the COVID-19 pandemic, those...
Health Minister tips Arua nurse for award
ARUA - The Minister of Health has tipped a nurse in Arua town to get an award for an extraordinary...
President Trump says he’s ‘glad to see’ Kim Jong Un ‘is back, and well!’
AGENCIES | CNN | Washington DC - US President Donald Trump appeared to confirm Saturday that North Korean leader Kim...
Pope Francis calls teen who ‘corrected’ him on Sign of Peace
ROME – Last Wednesday Maria Teresa Baruffi, who lives in the northern Italian town of Caravaggio with her family, received...
NORTH KOREA: Kim Jong Un may have had heart surgery, based on fresh mark on wrist, experts say
AGENCIES | FOX News| A new mark on North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s wrist could suggest that he has had...
COVID-19: Nigeria overtakes Ghana as death toll hits 1,689 in Africa
AGENCIES | DailyPost | Lagos - The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said that there...
Opposition MPs to boycott Parliament after 3 MPs die in Tanzania
AGENCIES | Aljazeera | Dar es Salaam - Tanzania's leading opposition party has called for a suspension of Parliament after...
2 Truck-drivers, Ugandan test positive of COVID-19, cases rise to 88
Kampala – As the nation plunges in a moment of anticipation for the lockdown lifting, Ministry of Health has on...
KENYA: 20 saved from sinking water-bus after engine failure on Lake Victoria
Usenge - 20 people have escaped death by a whisker after were rescued from a sinking water bus on Lake...