Kotido on Alert Over Suspected Cholera Outbreak
13 Jul 2020, 17:33 Comments 217 Views Kotido, Uganda Health Lifestyle UpdatesDr. Acar says a Cholera Response Taskforce has been formed to oversee management and control of the disease.
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Stories :: Type: Updates :: Accepted date: July 2020
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Bweyogerere-Bukasa Stage Chairperson Arrested for Attempted Suicide
13 Jul 2020, 16:56 Comments 192 Views Crime Business and finance UpdatesPatrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, says Bogere staged in front of City Hall with a five liter jerrycan of petrol and match box with intentions of setting himself ablaze to protest a ban by Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA on taxis without route charts on Burton Street.
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PAC Expels Kyambogo Officials For Appearing Without University Secretary
13 Jul 2020, 16:39 Comments 169 Views Kampala, Uganda Parliament Education UpdatesNandala argued that it was illegal for the meeting to proceed without Okello who is the accounting officer of the institution.
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Police will not Stop Removing Motor Vehicle Number Plates - Enanga
13 Jul 2020, 15:47 Comments 252 Views Kampala, Uganda Security UpdatesEnanga said, the police will continue removing number plates for an vehicles found to be a in a dangerous mechanical condition so that to force the owners to go and repair them to be road worth. However Enanga said that the only police officers allowed to pluck off a number plate are those who are at the rank of Assistant Inspector of Police [AIP].
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Two Held Over Brutal Murder in Kibaale
13 Jul 2020, 14:54 Comments 183 Views Kibaale, Uganda Crime UpdatesJulius Hakiza, the Albertine Region Police Spokesperson, says Police swung into action and arrested the duo to help police investigations.
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Isingiro District Gets First COVID-19 Community Case
13 Jul 2020, 14:04 Comments 228 Views Kampala, Uganda Health Local government UpdatesIsingiro Resident District Commissioner Herbert Muhangi says that the district gets many people from Tanzania trying to enter the country illegally to sell merchandise. At the same time, a number of Ugandans go to Tanzania to till gardens.
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No Relief As Electricity Charges Remain Unchanged
13 Jul 2020, 13:51 Comments 210 Views Kampala, Uganda Business and finance Politics UpdatesERA announced today that between July and September 2020, ordinary Ugandans classified as domestic users will pay 750.9 Shillings per unit of electricity they use. This is the same price as what Ugandans paid between April and June 2020.
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400 Homesteads Swallowed by Rising L. Albert Water Levels in Hoima
13 Jul 2020, 13:31 Comments 187 Views Hoima, Uganda Crime UpdatesDoreen Akumu, a resident of Fofo landing site, says when the floods started on Sunday night they made alarm but didn’t receive any help.
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Kitgum Municipality MP Aspirant Apprehended For Holding Illegal Assembly
13 Jul 2020, 12:36 Comments 248 Views Politics Crime UpdatesKitgum Resident District Commissioner, William Komakech, says police acted on a tip off by residents who complained that the meeting had attracted crowds in their vicinity.
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New Swarm of Desert Locusts Destroys Crop Gardens in Moroto
13 Jul 2020, 12:02 Comments 312 Views Moroto, Uganda Agriculture Environment UpdatesThe last invasion comes at a time when crops are still on farms raising fears of massive destruction by the locusts. Uganda Peoples Defence Forces -UPDF teams are already on the ground, using aerial spray to kill the insects.
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Nansana Mayor, Councilors Clash Over Exemption
13 Jul 2020, 11:27 Comments 237 Views Local government UpdatesHussein Kivumbi Balinnya, the Gombe Division LC III Councilor wonders how the mayor expects to raise funds to carry out key activities such as waste management, which are not financed by the Central government.
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Plastic Wastes Provide Much Needed Shield for Medics in COVID-19 Fight
13 Jul 2020, 05:43 Comments 270 Views Kitgum, Uganda Science and technology Health Northern UpdatesA group of environmental activists have chipped in to fill the gap with innovative ideas of producing affordable, yet protective medical face shields for health workers in the region using recycled plastic wastes. Takataka plastics, a social enterprise co-founded by Peter Okwoko is using melted polyethene terephthalate [PET] bottle plastic wastes to produce the shields.
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Body of Kitgum Nurse Still Missing
12 Jul 2020, 16:54 Comments 335 Views Kitgum, Uganda Human rights Health Northern UpdatesRobert Mutegeki Akiiki 24 is believed to have died after being swept by fast-flowing waters as he attempted to cross the river to tend to his garden in Nyanza ward in Pager Division
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Amuru COVID-19 Task Force Concerned About Mairungi Trade Among Security Personnel
12 Jul 2020, 15:27 Comments 308 Views Security Business and finance Health UpdatesGeoffrey Oceng, the Amuru District Covid-19 Task Force Chairperson says that Mairungi is being illegally transported by long-distance cargo truck drivers who supply consumers who include security personnel in Elegu while retail dealers use the porous border points to sneak the substance into South Sudan.
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Uganda's COVID-19 Cases Rise to 1,025
12 Jul 2020, 13:05 Comments 309 Views Kampala, Uganda Health UpdatesThe cases were from 2,292 samples that were tested yesterday. Seven were from truck drivers that were picked different points of entry- Malaba, Mirama Hills and Elegu.
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Activist Petitions Constitutional Court Over NSSF Monopoly
12 Jul 2020, 12:46 Comments 198 Views Kampala, Uganda Business and finance Politics UpdatesThe petition notes “imposing compulsory registration eligibility, contribution, and restrictions on employers and employees violates rights of contributors and members to free, open and democratic society…”
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Eastern Uganda Districts Lacking Ambulance Services
12 Jul 2020, 11:01 Comments 247 Views Health Local government UpdatesJonathan Wangis, the Mbale district Health Officer says that the absence of ambulances at both the regional hospital and the district health Center IVs has grappled emergency health services in the region.
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Gov't to Deliver Second Phase of Study Materials
12 Jul 2020, 09:29 Comments 253 Views Kasese, Uganda Education UpdatesMuyingo said that the government is determined to ensure that learners continue with studies because the ministry is not sure when schools will re-open.
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Suspected Rwandan Security Personnel Kidnap Ugandan in Kabale Top story
12 Jul 2020, 08:21 Comments 554 Views Security UpdatesLevy Byomuhangi, a resident of Rugarama village in Nyinamuronzi ward, Katuna was arrested by gunmen dressed in Rwandan army uniform at Mushenyi village, Karuhanga parish, Rubaya Sub County, about 20 metres away from Uganda-Rwanda border.
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Ochom Orders Fresh Investigations into Masaka Cyclist's Death
11 Jul 2020, 16:19 Comments 295 Views Masaka, Uganda Crime UpdatesOchom told journalists in Masaka that police should conduct fresh investigations to establish what prompted Walugembe to set himself ablaze.
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