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𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄 246 🇫 🇷 🇮 🇩 🇦 🇾 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 24, 2023 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇺🇬 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...

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...

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...

𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄 241 🇸 🇺 🇳 🇩 🇦 🇾 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 19, 2023 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇺🇬  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...

𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄 240 🇸 🇦 🇹 🇺 🇷 🇩 🇦 🇾 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 18, 2023 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇺🇬 Adjumani District reports decline in infant mortality 📌Adjumani District has reported a decline in the number of children who die before and during birth. The District Health Officer in Charge of Maternal and Child Health, Dr. Henry Lulu attributes the decline to the continued timely interventions by Government.  He said the District has in the last six months registered 56 prenatal deaths compared to previous records. Lulu was speaking during a handover ceremony of Medical equipment...