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The first batch of 100 Ugandans who were stuck in Rwanda because of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions returned to Uganda on Tuesday. The group was flagged off by the Charge d’Affairs of the Ugandans Embassy in Rwanda’s capital Kigali, Ms Anne…

Countrymen, Countrywomen and, especially the Bazukulu. Greetings again from the old man with a hat. When I last sent out a missive, it was talking about the prominent Ugandans that had died and what I knew about them. These were:…

Uganda’s poor public hospitals, doctors’ strikes and corruption scandals make its success in the fight against the new coronavirus all the more unlikely. But the nation of 42 million people has recorded just over 1,200 cases and five…

City traders have protested a move by one of their landlords who is demanding rent arrears for shops that were closed since the lockdown in March. In a notice sent to his tenants at the weekend, Mr Drake Lubega provided four bank…

276 Ugandans and Uganda residents and dependent pass holders have, today Friday July 17th departed Dulles International Airport, Washington, DC, bound for Entebbe International Airport, from on Ethiopian Airlines. The group was seen off by…

As we are all aware; the world has been ravaged by the new enemy in the name of COVID-19 pandemic, and many countries we once thought were mighty and exemplary have been put to shame for being paper tigers and having wrong remedies to the…

The coronavirus has weakened over time, and it could die out without the need for a vaccine, a leading Italian infectious disease specialist has said. The coronavirus outbreak has spread all over the world, infecting millions of people…

While addressing parliament on May 28, Sam Kutesa, Uganda's minister of foreign affairs, said the Government was committed to allowing Ugandans stranded abroad to return home in a phased and orderly manner. Following Minister Sam…

President Yoweri  Museveni last evening maintained the night-time curfew across the country arguing that it is not only to curb crime but also a means to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The curfew runs from 7 p.m. to 6 30 a.m. every…

Uganda has registered 84 new cases of Covid-19, the highest number registered in a single day ever since the first case was confirmed in March. The Ministry of Health on Sunday morning said the country’s total number of confirmed cases…