Uganda's Minister of Health, Jane Aceng and State Minister for Health in charge of General Duties, Hon. Robinah Nabbanja on Friday commissioned the 1st Port Health laboratory in Mutukula, Uganda. This is a gene expert laboratory with...
Equity Bank Uganda has contributed half a Billion UGX in the form of 2 brand new Toyota double cabin pickups valued at UGX 400Million and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth UGX 100 Million to the...
The US embassy in Tanzania has warned that there is a risk of "exponential growth" of Covid-19 cases in the country, at a time when the government is not releasing data on new cases. It...
The Rural Electeification Agency (REA) is mobilising support for Uganda’s fight against COVID-19 from players in the energy sector. As a result, Orion Transformers and Electrics has joined the country’s fight against the spread of...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has said it would be "madness" to hold general elections while still dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. He told the Ugandan broadcaster NBS that if the pandemic was not brought under...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday hosted national prayers with an appeal to Ugandans to pray for an end to coronavirus. The prayers were televised and attended by a host of religious leaders and government...
As Uganda and East African region grapple with the problem of truck drivers spreading COVID-19, Cyclops Defense Systems, a security company has developed an application to fight the spread of coronavirus by tracking and monitoring...
The Danish Government has donated a total of 14,500,000DKK (Fourteen million and five hundred thousand Danish Kronner) equivalent to 6,004,500,000/= (Six billion, four million and five hundred thousand Uganda Shillings) towards the fight against COVID...
The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga is bitter with the executive and judiciary over the supplementary budget passed to held the country deal with COVID-19. Kadaga has since told MPs to go ahead and use...
Centenary Bank, Uganda’s largest Commercial Microfinance bank has today contributed shs200 Million to the COVID-19 National Taskforce team to help aide the government’s efforts to fight the pandemic. The Bank that serves a quarter of...
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