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Covid-19 Effect: Uganda Prisons Set To Release Over 2000 Inmates
The Uganda Prisons Service has listed 2,000 prisoners across the country who have served part of their sentences to be released if the Attorney General (AG) approves the proposal as one way to decongest prisons and reduce the risk of coronavirus infection. W Whereas in the last two weeks, President Museveni has issued directives to…
Covid-19:Military Police Deployed To Monitor Kampala Curfew Operations Against Errant Officers
The Chief of Defence Forces Gen David Muhoozi has issued orders to the 1st Division Commander Maj Gen Samuel Kawaga and the Commander Military Police Brig Gen William Bainomugisha to deploy motorized military police to ensure the good conduct forces implementing the presidential directives on COVID 19. The CDF directed that on spot interventions to…
Covid-19 Crisis: Kabaka Of Buganda Donates Shs100 Million, For Coronavirus Fight
The Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II has donated sh100 million to the national task-force to fight COVID-19. He also contributed 5,000 kilograms of maize flour to the ongoing food distribution efforts by the government of Uganda. So far, Uganda has confirmed 52 COVID-19 cases, and is under lock-down, with majority of Ugandans unable to…
Covid-19: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Admitted To Intensive Care Unit As Symptoms Worsen
United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms worsened, according to government officials. Johnson, 55, asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise, a Downing Street spokesperson said on Monday. Johnson was admitted to hospital on Sunday night and had been undergoing tests after suffering persistent coronavirus symptoms for more than 10 days,…
Breaking: Stella Nyanzi Rushed To Mengo Hospital In Critical Condition
Ugandan Scholar Dr Stella Nyanzi has been Rushed to Mengo hospital in critical condition according to an eye witness. She added that the famous and brave medical anthropologist, feminist, queer rights activist, scholar of sexuality, and public health has foam in the mouth which is suspected to be poison. When we contacted her lawyer Isaac…
COVID-19 Crisis: Death Toll Surpasses 10,000 In US
By Agencies The COVID-19 death toll in the US has surpassed 10,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. Spain has reported 4,273 new cases of the coronavirus with 637 new deaths, the fourth day the daily totals have declined from the previous day. In US, the total deaths in the country from COVID-19 as…
Coronavirus Crisis:6 UPDF Soldiers,11 Police Officers Arrested For Torturing 31 Women In Lockdown
A joint security task team of senior UPDF and UPF officers is investigating the alleged aggravated torture of several women and a few men who were being accused of flouting curfew orders and the ban on public spaces. The incident occurred on the 2nd /4/2020, at around 8pm, on a rainy evening, at Lorokwo West…
Kagame Cuts Top Gov’t Officials April Salaries To Free Up Funds To Curb Coronavirus
The Government of Rwanda has ordered chopping off of April Salaries from all Cabinet Members, Permanent Secretaries, Heads of Public Institutions, and other senior officials as a way of collecting money to fight Covid-19. The big announcement was issued on 5, April, 2020, by the Prime Minister’s office who said, the forfeit is in solidarity…
Four Arrested For Defying M7’s Directives On Covid-19 Relief Food
Police alongside other team agencies carried out an operation and arrested four men over alleged for defying President Yoweri Kaguta directives on coronavirus by decampaigning the government relief food distribution for vulnerable people affected by the COVID-19 lockdown in Kampala and Wakiso. The four suspects were nabbed at Mackay road, Natete, Kampala for inciting members…
Panic As Deadly Swam Of Locusts Invade Uganda Again
A large swarm of desert locusts estimated to cover about 100,000 acres has entered into Uganda and settled in the districts of Karamoja sub-region in northeastern Uganda. According to the Amudat district senior agricultural officer Joseph Marimoi, the locusts entered through Karita border area and spread throughout Karita sub-county in the areas of Akou lee,…