Stories :: Type: Report :: Accepted date: April 2020
Updated: 08 Apr, 12:3012:30
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Slow Delivery of Relief Food Frustrates Residents
8 Apr 2020, 11:33 Comments 79 Views Kampala, Uganda Human rights ReportAlthough the programme targeted to reach over 1.5 million people in a space of one week, the distribution team has only reached out to 25,548 people over the last four days. Each of the beneficiaries receives three kilograms of beans, six kilograms of flour and salt while lactating mothers and the sick are given two kilograms of powdered milk and two kilograms of sugar.
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Task Force in Tooro Struggling to Implement Covid-19 Directives
8 Apr 2020, 10:31 Comments 85 Views Kabarole, Uganda Health Business and finance Crime ReportThe task forces in Tooro say there are business operators especially bar and shop owners who are still operating in hiding which is undermining their efforts to prevent the spread of the deadly disease.
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Security Forcefully Evicts Defiant Roadside Vendors in Arua Top story
8 Apr 2020, 07:50 Comments 219 Views Arua, Uganda Business and finance Health Local government ReportNelson Dada, the Chairman General Arua main market, says all efforts were made to persuade the vendors to relocate in vain. He said some of the vendors resorted to vulgar language and insults whenever they asked them to vacate the roadside.
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COVID-19 Complicates Efforts to Fight Desert Locusts
7 Apr 2020, 17:39 Comments 249 Views Agriculture Misc ReportAgriculture Minister Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja says that they are currently unable to buy nose masks because of the stiff competition for them with countries that want to protect their people from the virus. They were also unable to get some of the pesticides that they use to spray locusts.
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Govt Relief Food Reaches 25,548 People in Kampala, Wakiso
7 Apr 2020, 17:24 Comments 201 Views Parliament ReportState Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Musa Ecweru told parliament that the food has so far been given to 25,548. He was this afternoon presenting a statement on the government move to proceed with the distribution of relief food in Kampala and Wakiso districts in disregard of a directive issued earlier by Parliament.
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Wakiso Considering Partnership with Private Clinics to Ease Accessibility
7 Apr 2020, 17:11 Comments 110 Views Wakiso, Uganda Local government Health ReportDr. David Ssekabogo, the Wakiso Deputy District Health Officer, notes that given the nature of Wakiso, most health units are distant for residents.
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Mukono RDC Orders Closure of Major Markets Over Presidential Directives
7 Apr 2020, 16:43 Comments 130 Views Health Business and finance Local government ReportThe decision taking effect tomorrow has been reached after the district task force making several engagements with the market leadership to maintain vendor to vendor four-metre distance and limiting numbers of buyers turning up in big numbers on top of vendors rejecting to sleep at work places.
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Prosecution Objects To Tumukunde's Bail Application Top story
7 Apr 2020, 16:05 Comments 292 Views Court ReportProsecution led by Lino Anguzo, the Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions has objected to the application, saying Tumukunde has capacity to interfere with ongoing investigations once released. They rely on the sworn affidavit by Senior Superintendent of Police, Richard Mugwisagye who is attached to the Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID Headquarters in Kampala.
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Finance Committee Asks Government to Suspend New Tax Measures Top story
7 Apr 2020, 16:00 Comments 274 Views Parliament ReportSome of the proposed measures include; excise duty of 1,115 Shillings per liter on beer produced from barley grown and malted in Uganda, excise duty of 1,700 Shillings per liter on ready to drink spirits, 2,050 Shillings per liter on malt beer, excise duty of 1,350 Shillings per liter on gasoline, 300 Shillings per liter on kerosene, and 1,030 Shillings per liter on gas oil and others.
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Police Officers Remanded For Torture of Elegu Residents
7 Apr 2020, 15:21 Comments 181 Views Court Crime Misc ReportCourt heard that the officers on 2nd April at Elegu Town Council in Amuru District, intentionally inflicted severe pain or suffering on 38 victims purportedly to punish them for disobeying a curfew. However, they all pleaded not guilty.
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WHO Calls for Investment in Nurses
7 Apr 2020, 14:13 Comments 101 Views Health Education East Africa ReportAccording to the report, if nothing is done to increase on the investment of training health workers, the world likely to have a shortage of 5.9 million nurses globally by 2030
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19 Remanded in Arua for Disobeying Lawful Orders
7 Apr 2020, 12:12 Comments 116 Views Court Crime Health ReportCourt heard that the suspects on Saturday at 4:30 pm congregated and locked themselves inside Kampala Gardens Bar and Lodge along Enyau road in Arua Municipality.
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Entebbe Municipality has No Money to Fuel Emergency Cars
7 Apr 2020, 11:10 Comments 179 Views Entebbe, Uganda Health Human rights Misc ReportThe five vehicles all Toyota Land Cruiser 78 Series, were delivered on Monday at the office of the Entebbe Deputy Resident District Commissioner, Hajji Njuki Mbabali, to transport members of the general public who need urgent medical attention. Therefore, each patient will have to refuel the emergency car in order to be transported to the respective medical facilities.
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Gulu University Seeks UGX 2.5Bn for COVID-19 Diagnosis, Surveillance
7 Apr 2020, 07:41 Comments 387 Views Education Health Science and technology ReportDr. Felix Kaducu Ocaka, the Dean Faculty of Medicine and Dr. Richard Echodu, the Director, Biosciences Research Laboratories at the Uganda, say government should consider the facility to complement Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda’s only reference laboratory.
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Kalerwe Markets Vendors Take Over Gayaza Road Reserve
6 Apr 2020, 18:16 Comments 249 Views Kampala, Uganda Business and finance Misc ReportLast week, the Minister for Kampala Affairs Betty Amongi closed the markets after management failed to meet requirements set by the government to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.
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Mukono District Given 500 Mattresses to Setup COVID -19 Isolation Facility
6 Apr 2020, 18:16 Comments 243 Views Mukono, Uganda Health Business and finance ReportCurrently, the district is preparing Limkokwing university study centre, the former Namataba vocational Institute to serve as an isolation facility. The area Resident District Commissioner Fred Bamwine says due to its proximity to the capital, Kampala, Mukono district needs to be equally prepared for any eventualities.
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Parliament Rejects Byabashaija’s Reappointment as Uganda Prisons Boss Top story
6 Apr 2020, 17:49 Comments 821 Views Kampala, Uganda Parliament ReportBoth Byabashaija and Mwanje appeared before the committee chaired by the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga today for vetting. But sources from the closed-door meeting rejected their appointment on grounds that the two, have already clocked 60, the mandatory retirement age of Public servants.
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Mabirizi Petitions East African Court over Deregistered Suit
6 Apr 2020, 16:47 Comments 129 Views Kampala, Uganda Court Misc ReportAccording to his evidence before the East African Court, Mabirizi states that on March 30th 2020, he was shown a handwritten statement by the Administrative Head of the High Court Civil Division, Dr Andrew Bashaija ordering that his cases must be de-registered and their serial numbers given to other cases.
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COVID19: Uganda Prisons Seeks to Release 2,000 Inmates Top story
6 Apr 2020, 16:33 Comments 385 Views Kampala, Uganda Parliament Misc ReportDr. Byabashaija noted that they have also written to the Registrar of Courts to release persons whose remand period has expired. He however, said this excludes inmates on capital offenses.
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