Burundi has expelled four officials from the World Health Organization (WHO), declaring them persona non grata and ordering them to leave the country by Friday, a leaked memo from the country’s foreign ministry reveals. The decision comes days before the May 20 presidential elections and amid a global coronavirus pandemic. Bernard Ntahiraja, the foreign affairs…
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) has overturned Covid-19 test results on a Kenyan long-distance truck driver who was tested positive in Uganda while on transit a fortnight ago. According to Taita-Taveta health officials, the victim was tested at the Malaba border along the Kenya-Uganda border on May 3 while on his way to Tororo. On his…
Days after holding a successful online concert, musician and presidential hopeful Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine has something new to smile about. The High Court in Kampala on Wednesday quashed Police orders that stopped the pop star from staging concerts dubbed Kyarenga Extra. Justice Esta Nambayo declared the police orders as illegal,…
Former employees of Kampala City Council (KCC), which was transformed into Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), who were retrenched almost 10 years ago, will receive their terminal benefits in July this year. The State Minister for Finance (Planning), Hon. David Bahati, told Parliament that Shs4.08 billion was provided in the budget for the 2020/2021 financial…
The President of Uganda Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has endorsed a request by the Ministry of Finance to borrow up to USD500M to recapitalize Bank of Uganda (BoU) and Uganda Development Bank (UDB), following the effects of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Uganda’s economy. The money, according to credible sources, will come from the International Monetary Fund…
By Mbabazi Hanning Gonzaga In the land of bonanzas, the Pearl of Africa where wonders never cease, a poor powerless woman crosses the red line by attempting to confront the Sabalwanyi of Uganda, Gen Yoweri Museveni. The poor woman who knows no boundaries until she is embarrassed is non other than Hon Rabecca Kadaga. When…
