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[Nile Post] The Uganda Land Commission (ULC) has announced shake up in its top leadership amid bribery and mismanagement of funds allegations at the commission.
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.
[Monitor] More than 1,000 human rights complaints await the new Uganda Human Rights Commission members, who were sworn-in at the High Court in Kampala yesterday.
[New Times] Rwanda's tea export revenues generated more than $93 million (over Rwf90 billion) in the fiscal year 2019/2020, representing a 12 percent increase compared to the over $83 million (about Rwf80 billion) fetched in 2018/2019, according to statistics from the National Agricultural Export Development Board (NAEB).
Nine St. Croix residents filed a complaint against Limetree Bay Ventures on Wednesday, charging that toxic emissions and oil from their refining operations threaten the residents' health and enjoyment of their homes.
The 'no braids, no beads, no locks' policy of Kensington Primary School did not violate the constitutional right of the seven-year-old daughter of Sherine and Dale Virgo, a full court panel of Supreme Court judges stated in a written judgement released yesterday.At the same time, the judges said attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan, who represented the family, showed a clear misunderstanding of the law in his submissions on the issue of freedom of religion.
[East African] As The EastAfrican went to press on Friday night, the sun was setting on US President Donald Trump's hopes of a second term in the oval office, as officials across the Great Lakes began taking stock of what a change of guard in Washington D.C. means for the region.
Phiri Junior (R) during Flames training Renowned football analyst David Kanyenda has questioned Malawi Coach Marian Mario Marinica's decision to drop midfielder Gerald Phiri Junior from his final 23-man squad for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals slated for Cameroun next month. Marinica, who was named an interim Coach for the Flames, left […]
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[Premium Times] Mr Kwankwaso, a chieftain of the main opposition party, PDP, was asked to appear at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja last Thursday.
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[Nile Post] The Health Ministry Permanent Secretary, Dr.Diana Atwine has applauded Kentim University School of Health sciences for its role in the Covid vaccination uptake in the country.
