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𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 25, 2023
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🇺🇬 Health Ministry boasts of vast experience in handling Marburg Virus spread
📌The Ministry of Health has assured the public that Government is committed to ensuring that the Marburg virus disease does not spread into the country. Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, the Health Minister says interventions, including setting up of screening centers, have been instituted to keep the virus at bay. She said that Uganda has enough experience in handling such outbreaks should the virus be reported...
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𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 24, 2023
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🇺🇬 President Museveni directs UBC to run all Government advertisements in new directive
📌President Yoweri Museveni has directed Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja that Government should take over all the debt accumulated by the national broadcaster, the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) and also ensure that all Government media advertisements go through the Corporation. The President also directed the Government to make a substantive budget allocation to the corporation from next financial year. This followed a letter from the...
Hon Ssempijja Launches Military Consignments Exports to Equatorial Guinea
At the Entebbe Air Base, Hon. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs, yesterday 22nd March 2023, signaled the start of the export of military consignments to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. 5,400 cartons of uniforms and accessories for the armed forces made by Southern Range Nyanza Ltd (Nytil), in Jinja, Uganda, were part of the shipment.
His Excellency, the president of Uganda, who was supposed to flag off the consignment, was represented by Hon. Ssempijja.
The Republic of...
Marburg Outbreak in Tanzania, 5 Confirmed Dead
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported Tuesday that five individuals have died in Tanzania as a result of the Marburg virus disease after an outbreak in the nation's northwestern Kagera region.
The first-ever cases of Marburg virus disease, a high-fatality viral haemorrhagic fever with symptoms broadly similar to those of Ebola, were confirmed after Tanzania’s health authorities carried out laboratory tests on a reported strange disease which had infected over eight people.
“The investigation of the National Laboratory has confirmed the...
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🇺🇬 Cattle herds in Ntoroko cross to DRC for pasture
📌At least 10,000 herds of cattle have reportedly crossed to the Democratic Republic of Congo from Ntoroko District in search of water and pasture after a prolonged dry spell hit the area, officials have said. Most farmlands in the area have dried up and district officials say some cattle had started dying, which forced some herdsmen to cross their cattle to the neighbouring DR Congo. The dry...