KAMPALA, UGANDA – Uganda has reimposed a 42-day lockdown as coronavirus infections surge in the East African country. President Yoweri Museveni said in his Friday night address that he was tired of receiving calls about deaths, but critics say he prese…
The Minister of Health, Ms Jane Aceng has said the Wednesday night arrival of 175,200 AstraZeneca vaccines through the Covax project was a timely intervention since the country had run out of vaccines.”Out of the 964,000 doses received initially, we ha…
The Ministry of Health on Wednesday said 49 more people have succumbed to Covid-19, the highest figure ever registered in Uganda in a single day since March last year when the virus outbreak was confirmed in the country.The ministry officials said the …
Up to 69 per cent of the new 15,248 Covid-19 cases detected countrywide were reported in the last 10 days, Daily Monitor has established.The statistics from the Ministry of Health for the last 10 days (June 3-12) indicate that 10,491 cases were reporte…
Northern Uganda continues to emerge out of the Lord’s Resistance Army conflict, which brought ruin to its economy for close to two decades from 1986.But when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the Acholi Sub-region, it reminded the locals of the folklore storie…
In a room painted white with a grey carpeted floor sits a big flat screen television mounted on the wall. A black gadget with the semblance of swimming goggles lays on the table. As a group of people make their way into the room, a youthful lady later …
There is a looming danger of an explosion and eventual spill of more than 30,000 litres of diesel in Lake Victoria by fuel tankers that sank alongside MV Kaawa Ferry more than 16 years ago.The warning was sounded by Dr Tom Okurut, the executive directo…
ALEXANDRIA, VA – President Joe Biden started the Memorial Day weekend by visiting a rock climbing gym in northern Virginia as the state lifted all COVID-19 distancing and capacity restrictions at private businesses and much of the nation pushes toward …
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON – World Menstrual Health Day on May 28 is being observed in Cameroon with NGOs and girls asking the government to either subsidize sanitary pads or provide them for free, as they already do with condoms. At least 300 school children a…
BOSTON – The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on U.S. and foreign government agencies and think tanks this week using an email marketing account of the U.S. Agency for In…
YUMBE, NORTHERN UGANDA – Uganda, which hosts nearly 1.5 million refugees and asylum-seekers, began coronavirus vaccinations this week in the camps and settlements. But vaccine hesitancy among refugees poses a challenge. Ugandan authorities have re…
The feeling is that life is almost back to normal in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic following seven entries of Ugandan runners at the 60th Ostrava Golden Spike Meeting in Czech Republic tonight.There are varying targets for each of the septet at …
The tourism industry must co-exist with a future that has been permanently altered, thanks to Covid-19.The Covid-19 pandemic has taken all countries back to the drawing board to realign priorities to reignite their economies.As travelers consider safet…