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[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- Demises of the third phase government President Benjamin Mkapa, the Constitutional and Legal Affairs minister Augustine Mahiga, Members of Parliament (MPs) Rashid Akbar, Getrude Rwakatare and Richard Ndassa are the deaths that shocked the nation in 2020.
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
[East African] Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed were in northern Kenya on Wednesday for the opening of the One Stop Border Post in Moyale, Marsabit County.
[East African] Value for money is the name of the game for travel within Kenya during the Covid-19 pandemic. When containment measures in the Nairobi metropolitan area were lifted in July 2020, Kenyan families took the opportunity to go on holiday after three months of confinement. Now hotels and travel companies are looking ahead to the festive season.
By RAF CASERT and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of Britain and the European Union were meeting Wednesday for a dinner that could pave the way to a post-Brexit trade deal — or tip the two sides toward a chaotic economic rupture at the end of the month. Early-morning comments from both sides insisting that it was for the other to compromise only highlighted the difficult task ahead for U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. They have just a few hours over a multi-course meal to unstick negotiations that […]
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[Cameroon Tribune] Jessie Ekukole, Technical Adviser 4 at the Telecommunications Regulatory Board.
[Cameroon Tribune] The 35-year-old athlete died in Yaounde on Monday, December 7, 2020 after a brief illness.
[Daily Trust] The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and recall its certificate of registration given that it allegedly has no operational structures as required by law.
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[Nairobi News] Tugging impatiently at the muzzle of his oxygen mask from his hospital bed, he had confided in his sister that he would enrol his prized dog, Missy, in the next edition of Nairobi's animal show competition early next year.
[The Herald] INVICTUS Energy, the Australia firm currently exploring for oil and gas in the Muzarabani area, is almost certain to face demands from residents and the local leadership to prioritise employment of locals and investment in community initiatives like road, bridge and dam construction if it makes a commercial discovery.
[Algerie Presse Service] Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad said Sunday that Algeria noted \"with great concerns\" that significant funds are still being transferred to terrorist groups as ransoms for the liberation of hostages, a scourge that undermines counterterrorism efforts.
