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Health

Hard Times: Uganda Records 49 New Covid-19 Cases As Deaths Rise To 13

Uganda has on August 15 registered 49 new COVID-19 cases, the highest number of cases recorded in a single day ever since the outbreak was reported in the country. The cumulative total confirmed cases of Ugandans are now 1,434 and 13 deaths

August 15, 2020

Crime

Watch Video: Somali President and Vice Exchange James Bond Blows

In a rather unpopular turn of events, Somalia president and his deputy exchanged James Bond kind of blows to the point of wrestling to the ground. The duo were sitted next and close to each other in what seemed like a press

August 15, 2020

News

Defunct Banks: DPP Recalls File For Re-perusal

The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) her lordship Jane Frances Abodo is determined to bring justice to owners of defunct banks; International Credit Bank (ICB), Greenland Bank and Cooperative Bank whose properties were taken over and sold by Bank of Uganda dubiously.

August 15, 2020

Sports

Barcelona 2-8 Bayern Munich: Barca Historically Humiliated By Bayern In UEFA Champions League Quarters

Bayern Munich sent out an emphatic and ominous message to their Champions League rivals with an absolute demolition of fellow European heavyweights Barcelona in a gloriously chaotic and utterly one-sided quarter-final tie in Lisbon. The high-pressing, energetic and ruthless German champions were

August 14, 2020

Sports

Monaco DL: Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei Breaks 5000M World’s Record

Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei has broken the 5000M world record while running at the 2020 Monaco Diamond League meet. The Ugandan ran 12:35:36 to break Kenenisa Bekele’s record set in 2004. Cheptegei has been in fine form since clinching 10000M gold at last

August 14, 2020

Health

Just In! Uganda Registers 12th Covid-19 Death As Cases Rise To 1,385

Uganda has on Friday August 14, 2020 registered one new COVID-19 death.‬ According to the Health Ministry, the deceased is a 65-year-old male resident of Kampala. He passed on at the China- Uganda Friendship Hospital, Naguru. He becomes the 12th person to die

August 14, 2020

Health

Crisis: Two City Arcades Closed As Covid-19 Cases Surge

Government of Uganda have closed two city Arcades with immediate effect after registering two Covid-19 cases. Ms Betty Amongi, the Minister for Kampala Affairs, on Thursday said Namaganda and Galilaya arcades registered one case each, adding that scientists were studying the two

August 14, 2020

Crime

Busted: How URA Customs Staff, UNBS Border Officials Collude To Smuggle Kenyan Kay Salt Into Uganda

Our investigators have unearthed a cartel of Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) customs staff and staff from the National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), who are conniving to smuggle Kenyan Kay salt into Uganda. This is going on even after President Yoweri Museveni cautioned

August 14, 2020

Politics·Security

BobiWine Sues IGP Ochola,AG Byaruhanga For Blocking His Radio Talk Shows

Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Hon.Robert Ssentamu Kyangulanyi alias Bobiwine, the leader of National Unity Platform (NUP) has sued the Attorney General William Byaruhanga, the Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola to courts of law for blocking him from accessing BCU

August 14, 2020

News

City Engineer,23 Others Arrested In Curfew Drinking Spree

Police in Kumi District have arrested 24 people who were found drinking and dancing in a bar of one Apedun Marion based at Northern Division within Kumi Municipality. The suspects arrested have been identified as Obwanga Samuel 29yrs Veterinary Officer, Emuria Stephen

August 14, 2020