Stories :: Category: East Africa :: Accepted date: February 2020

Updated: 25 Feb, 21:3721:37

• Coronavirus Not Yet a Pandemic –WHO Top story

  25 Feb 2020, 14:01 Comments 472 Views Health Lifestyle East Africa Breaking news

  The are now more than 77,362 cases and more than 2,600 deaths, as a result of coronavirus. Outside China, there are now 2,074 cases of COVID-19 in 28 countries, with 23 deaths. The Countries where the cases have been confirmed so far include the Republic of Korea, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Viet Nam, Philippines, Thailand, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Canada, United States of America and Italy, among others.

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• Missing Body of Kenyan National Recovered

  25 Feb 2020, 11:14 Comments 311 Views Pader East Africa Northern Updates

  Patrick Jimmy Okema, the Aswa River Region Police Spokesperson told URN on Tuesday that the test result have confirmed that the body is of Wafula after its samples matched with that of his mother.

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• New Project to Address Link Between Terrorism, Arms and Crime

  22 Feb 2020, 11:29 Comments 263 Views Security Crime East Africa Updates

  It is widely acknowledged that the connection between terrorism and organized crime, including illicit small arms and light weapons trafficking is a serious threat to international peace and security, an obstacle to sustainable development and a menace to the rule of law.

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• Uganda Lauds S. Sudan Factions for Assenting to National Unity Gov't

  21 Feb 2020, 18:34 Comments 227 Views East Africa Politics Misc Report

  President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his political nemesis Dr Riek Machar on Wednesday agreed that the much-awaited transitional government will start on Saturday, February 22, as agreed in a summit held in Entebbe last year. The current government is going to be dissolved today and subsequently, Machar will be appointed the first of the four vice presidents while Kiir will remain president.

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• Deliberate Starvation Tactics Used in South Sudan Could Be a War Crime – Report Top story

  21 Feb 2020, 11:49 Comments 385 Views East Africa Crime Security Updates

  In the Commission’s report, which will be presented to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council on March 9, both the government and armed groups are described as having pursued policies responsible for the starvation of the population in Wau and Unity states.

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• Countries Failing to Protect Children- Report

  19 Feb 2020, 21:57 Comments 289 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Environment East Africa Report

  According to the report, the futures of 250 children in low and middle income countries have been cut short due to environmental degradation, climate change and unhealthy commercial advertising that has led to an increase in childhood obesity

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• Two Arrested at Elegu Border Attempting to Sell Pangolin Top story

  19 Feb 2020, 16:18 Comments 447 Views East Africa Business and finance Crime Report

  Tens of thousands of pangolins are poached and killed for their scales for use in traditional Chinese medicine. It is believed their meat is a delicacy among some ultra-wealthy in the Asian continent.

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• Rwanda Deports Three Ugandans Ahead of Katuna Meeting Top story

  18 Feb 2020, 21:04 Comments 586 Views East Africa Updates

  Kukundankwe says that after their arrest they were taken to Bungwe prison where they spent two days before they were transferred to another prison at Burera district headquarters. She says they appeared before court and were sentenced to two year’s imprisonment to suffer on grounds that Rwandans nationals are also suffering in Uganda.

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• Uganda Releases, Deports 13 More Rwandans

  18 Feb 2020, 17:32 Comments 320 Views Human rights Misc East Africa Report

  The Foreign Affairs Minister, Sam Kutesa,, says the release of the Rwandan nationals is part of Uganda’s effort to normalize relation with her neighbor that fell apart at the beginning of last year, leading to the closure of Gatuna border.

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• Coronavirus Transmission ‘Iceberg’ Not as Big as Feared Outside China Top story

  14 Feb 2020, 08:02 Comments 458 Views Health Environment East Africa Updates

  Dr Michael Ryan, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme chief, said, that routine winter testing of patients with chest ailments in hospitals in China, Singapore and Hong Kong had not indicated widespread COVID-19 transmission.

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• Act Now to Prevent Desert Locust Catastrophe in East Africa: UN Agencies Top story

  11 Feb 2020, 07:58 Comments 723 Views Agriculture Health East Africa Updates

  The call came just a day after swarms crossed into Uganda, through the North-Eastern Districts of Amudat and Nakapiripirit from neighbouring Kenya. The infestation in Uganda also puts Tanzania and South Sudan on the watch list, according to Mark Lowcock, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator.

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• Uganda on Food Security Threat Alert as Locusts Invade

  10 Feb 2020, 21:15 Comments 442 Views Kampala, Uganda Agriculture Misc East Africa Report

  The Ministry of Agriculture has since passed out information warning the entire populace to stock enough food. However, the warning might have come in late as many people are likely to have already sold off a number of crops harvested in the recent farming season. Uganda last experienced a major locust invasion in 1961, with immense damage on crops which resulted in acute hunger.

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• MV Kaawa Suspends Operations for Major Servicing

  10 Feb 2020, 16:00 Comments 368 Views Entebbe, Uganda Business and finance Misc East Africa Report

  The Engineer in charge of the Vessels at Port Bell - Luzira Aggrey Ojiambo told Uganda Radio Network in an earlier interview that Uganda Railway Corporation needed about USD 5 million (18.3 billion Shillings) to repair the two marine vessels MV Kaawa and MV Pamba.

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• UPDF Airlifts Chemicals to Tackle Desert Locusts in Amudat

  10 Feb 2020, 12:54 Comments 383 Views Kampala, Uganda Agriculture Health East Africa Updates

  The chemicals were loaded and airlifted this morning from Kololo airstrip, by Ministry of Agriculture and Uganda Peoples Defence Forces-UPDF personnel to combat the deadly weevils which have already destroyed hundreds of acres of vegetation, specifically in Okorikeya and Loro villages.

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• Desert Locust Infestation Linked to Climate Change -UN Chief Top story

  10 Feb 2020, 11:54 Comments 879 Views Human rights Misc East Africa Updates

  The migratory pests, which were first reported in parts of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, have also been seen in the Ugandan districts of Amudat, Nakapiripirit and Nabilatuk, presenting an unprecedented the threat to food security and livelihoods in the region. A locust swarm of one square kilometre can eat the same amount of food in one day as 35,000 people.

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• UGX 18 Billion Nimule One-Stop Border Post Opened

  7 Feb 2020, 07:21 Comments 523 Views Nimule, South Sudan Science and technology Business and finance East Africa Report

  The US$ 5 million, approximately 18.3 million Uganda Shillings’ facility was on Thursday handed over to the Government of South Sudan by TradeMark East Africa.

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• East African Court Dismisses Mabirizi’s Application Halting 2021 Elections Top story

  6 Feb 2020, 19:09 Comments 868 Views Election Court East Africa Report

  The judges ruled that based on the material on record, the implementation of the impugned act and the preparation for the 2021 general election is well underway.

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• Ambassador Kilonzo Praises Ex-President Moi for Transforming Kenyan Politics

  5 Feb 2020, 19:36 Comments 154 Views Politics Misc East Africa Report

  Speaking to URN at his office in Kololo Kiema Kilonzo said although Moi had shortcomings like any other leader, the political growth that Kenya as registered over the years was as a result of Moi’s decision to open up political space.

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• Museveni Eulogizes Moi as True African

  4 Feb 2020, 19:35 Comments 277 Views Politics Misc East Africa Report

  Museveni said, when Moi succeeded his boss, Jommo Kenyatta, the first president and father to Uhuru Kenyatta the fourth and current president of Kenya, many people thought that the country was going to go up in frames.

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• Uganda Engages Guinea Bissau President During Stopover At Entebbe Airport

  4 Feb 2020, 11:16 Comments 393 Views Entebbe, Uganda Business and finance Politics East Africa Updates

  Embalo told URN that Uganda and Guinea Bissau share similar potentials in the oil and agricultural sector, saying they need to benchmark from Uganda on how to manage their oil resource.

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