The National Medical Stores (NMS) that has for months stored and distributed doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines to 94 districts across the country says they have the capacity to store Pfizer Vaccines as well, the...
Uganda will spend 4 trillion shillings ($1.1 billion) to battle the coronavirus pandemic in a three-year plan that involves vaccinating 22 million people before fully reopening the economy. Most of the funds will go to...
Residents of Okile sub county in Kaberamaido district are searching for the body of a 14-year- old boy they suspect to be a victim of a crocodile attack. The teenager only identified as Okello disappeared...
Agriculture Minister Frank Tumwebaze has declared July 1, 2021, on-wards as the appropriate date to start harvesting vanilla for the first season of the year 2021. Tumwebaze said that declaration of harvest date is one...
The delta variant is responsible for the spike in the Covid-19 transmission rates, according to scientists. The variant also identified as B.1.617.2 was first identified in India last year in October. Today the variant has...
Uganda will no longer need any more coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine donations because the country is in the advanced stages of starting production of its own vaccines, President Yoweri Museveni has said. Uganda, with a...
President Museveni has promoted Wilson Mbasu Mbadi to the rank of General and appointed him as the new Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), replacing Gen David Muhoozi who was recently appointed as the Minister of...
A boda boda rider who allegedly refused to stop at a checkpoint in Luwero district has been bayonetted to death by police. Kassim Luyinda, who was riding his motorcycle reg. number UFH 186G was bayonetted...
A second virus case linked to the Ugandan Olympic team has been detected after a coach tested positive on arrival in Japan, a city official said on Wednesday. The announcement comes as Olympic officials marked...
Hon. Frank Tumwebaze has on Tuesday assumed office as Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries following a handover in Entebbe by outgoing minister Hon. Vincent Ssempijja. Hon. Tumwebaze, t has promised to apply a...
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