KAMPALA – Uganda has been hailed for its efforts in successfully containing the Ebola virus following the outbreak from September 20, 2022, until January 2023. Nine districts, Bunyangabu, Jinja, Kagadi, Kampala, Kassanda, Kyegegwa, Masaka, Mubende and …
WASHINGTON — The little-noticed program that led to a Chinese spy balloon drifting across the United States this month has been discussed in China’s state-controlled media for more than a decade in articles extolling its potential military applications…
The World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the Covid-19 pandemic started, the agency’s chief said Wednesday following a report suggesting it had abandoned the search.Solving the mystery of where the SARS-CoV-2 v…
The Territorial Police in Pallisa, has in custody, a one Dr. Naaya Jesse, a Medical Doctor at Pallisa; on allegations of corruption and abuse of office, after he demanded Ugx 200,000/=, to perform an operation on an expectant mother, who had failed to deliver normally. Her husband failed to raise the money, and reported the […]
BENI (DR Congo)— At least 10 people were killed and 39 wounded in a bomb attack on a church in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo claimed by Daesh militants.Congolese military spokesman Antony Mualushayi said the “terrorist act” happened Sunday in a …
Malnutrition is a global health problem affecting one-in-three children and the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five years. However, there has been limited focus on preventing and managing malnutrition among infants less t…
The World Health Organization met Chinese officials for talks on Friday about the surge in COVID-19 cases, urging them to share real-time data so other countries could respond effectively. The rise in infections in China has triggered concern around the globe and questions about its data reporting, with low official figures for cases and deaths […]
Three prominent Congolese figures, including Nobel winner Denis Mukwege, on Monday accused President Felix Tshisekedi of pushing the country towards breakup by bringing in outside nations to tackle its security crisis. In a sign of mounting pressures on Tshisekedi over DR Congo’s deeply troubled east, the trio said sub-Saharan Africa’s largest country faced “fragmentation” and […]
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicenter of the country’s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government’s response to the disease was succeeding. Movement into and out of the Mubende and Kassanda districts in central Uganda will be restricted up to Dec. 17, the […]
Delegates at a global summit on trade in endangered species on Friday approved a plan to protect 54 more shark species, a move that could drastically reduce the lucrative and cruel shark fin trade. Members of the requiem shark and the hammerhead shark families will now have their trade tightly controlled under the Convention on […]