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𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄 324 🅂🅄🄽🄳🄰🅈 JUNE 11, 2023 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇺🇬 Archbishop Kazimba Mugalu donates 200 blankets to Butabika Hospital 📌The Archbishop of Uganda Steven Kazimba Mugalu has paid a courtesy visit to Butabika Mental Referral Hospital where he donated 205 blankets. While speaking to the medical officers on Saturday, Dr Kazimba appealed to the Government to increase taxes on alcohol and drugs like tobacco  which have contributed to a high prevalence rate of substance abuse. Kazimba commended the work at the hospital and asked the Government...

𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄 323 🅂🄰🅃🅄🅁🄳🄰🅈 JUNE 10, 2023 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇺🇬  Gen. Saleh Challenges Ugandan Universities on quality research 📌Gen Salim Saleh, the Operation Wealth Creation Coordinator has challenged Universities in Uganda to have documented research on matters relating to Uganda. Gen Saleh observed that foreign Universities have more data on Uganda compared to Ugandan Uiversities. He was Friday meeting Gulu University delegation led by Vice-Chancellor Professor George Openjuru Ladaah from Purongo in Nwoya District to who briefed  him on the status of the OWC Secretariat established...

𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄 321 ⓉⒽⓊⓇⓈⒹⒶⓎ JUNE 08, 2023 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇺🇬  President Museveni says he is COVID-19 positive, commences self isolation 📌 President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has tested COVID19 positive. According to the State House Twitter handle, the President has commenced self isolation. On Wednesday, while concluding the State of the Nation address at Kololo Ceremonial grounds, the President revealed that he had tested positive for COVID-19. "Dear members, this morning I felt a cold and cough, and I took a COVID-19 test, which was a rapid one,...

Justice Jane Okuo Kajuga of the Anti-Corruption Court today, June 8, 2023, postponed Agnes Nandutu's trial in a case accusing her of improperly diverting iron sheets intended for Karamoja until June 16. Today's trial was postponed after Nandutu's attorney, Caleb Alaka, informed the judge that one of the defense team's attorneys was ill despite the presence of all four of them. The defense team was not prepared to move forward, according to her four attorneys, Caleb Alaka, Ochienge Evans, Charles Wamukota,...

H.E. Kaguta Museveni has made a statement via his official Twitter account that he will not be attending the Heroes Day celebrations. The president announced on Twitter that he will be unable to participate in the festivities since he tested positive for COVID-19 and ended up in self-isolation after the final tests were positive yesterday. He did, however, admit that despite having a few minor flu-like symptoms, he is not in any danger. "By God’s grace, all is well, and I...