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It is expected the former Gichugu Member of Parliament will make a major announcement in regard to her standing in the upcoming elections.
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.
[Nation] A secretary at the scandal-ridden drugs agency has told lawmakers that suspended Chief Executive Officer Jonah Manjari made her to backdate a commitment letter for a three-month-old firm awarded a Sh900 million tender.
Tiffany Haddish took to Instagram on Dec. 8 to commemorate her boyfriend Common's 18th anniversary of his 'Electric Circus' album. In the post, the 'Night […]
When Georgia’s Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler isn’t complaining about the outcome of the 2020 election, she’s putting all her energy into approving negative ads about her opponent, Reverend Raphael Warnock, the Democratic Party’s candidate for her Senate seat. We took the time to separate fact from fiction.
A self-described Missouri 'cop watcher' was tackled to the ground by police officers as he filmed them responding to a call in Springfield, Missouri, last […]
[Addis Fortune] Ethnic conflict has caused thousands of hectares of farmland to go unharvested or be left unplanted in recent years. Alongside the devastating locust invasion, the conflicts have exacerbated food shortages and increased inflation, reports HAGOS GEBREAMLAK, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER.
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[Nation] Fluctuating prices and ineffective management of cooperative societies are derailing the revival of the cotton industry in Siaya county.
Venalor received over R7 million from the Lottery, but neither the company nor the NLC will say what projects were funded by the Lottery.
[HRW] Washington -- The World Bank's Covid-19 support project does not adequately address the Egyptian government's arrests and intimidation of health professionals, Human Rights Watch said today.
[Nation] Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country in mid-March this year, cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) have been on the increase.
[Monitor] Government is working on an interconnection to export electricity to South Sudan, according to Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL).
An adult 9U football coach in Georgia was seen in a viral video aggressively punching a child at least two... View Article
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By Sydney Melson The Birmingham Times Kendra Haigler’s fitness journey has made such a difference in her life that she wants to share her story with others. The owner of Klearly Kooks, founded in 2018, prepares nutritious meals “for any fitness or weight-loss goals”—and she knows why her business is important right now. “We’ve been […]
[East African] Kenya and Uganda are among six African countries set to receive new generic strawberry-flavoured tablets for treating children living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the first half of 2021.
Authorities Wednesday circulated photos of two men accused of shooting at a sheriff’s deputy in Altadena. The ambush occurred Friday about 12:35 p.m., while the deputy was driving a marked patrol vehicle northbound on Fair Oaks Avenue, near Calaveras Street, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The deputy was not injured in the […]
The first wave of coronavirus vaccines should reach the public this week, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommending that all adults receive the vaccination in 2021. While the CDC said there should be enough doses for as many as 20 million people to receive vaccination by the end of December, health officials expect a much larger […]
Demonstrators and law enforcement clashed as Portland protesters erected an autonomous zone Tuesday, Dec. 8, by surrounding a Black family's home with barricades in order […]
By Glenn Ellis Now comes the moment of truth. The time has come when each of us will have to make a personal decision about whether to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Following months of the most unimageable experience of living in the midst of a global pandemic, the promise of the vaccine hoped for is […]
The Eastern Cape has the highest number of Covid-19 fatalities in the country, but placing it under a hard lockdown is not an option.
[Nairobi News] The High Court in Dar es Salaam has reversed a 2016 ruling against MIC (T) Limited popularly known as Tigo that ordered the telecom giant to pay Bongo flava artistes Hamis Mwinjuma alias Mwana FA and Ambwene Yessayah alias AY about Sh100 million for copyright infringement.
[Oil in Uganda] \"The unfortunate and heartless evictions from the Mudende gold mines on August 4, 2017 taught us an unforgettable lesson. And that was our motivation to come together as artisanal and small scale miners to speak with one voice,\" John Bosco Bukya, the chairperson Uganda Artisanal and Small scale Miners Association (UGAASM), explains their journey thus far.
8-year old Zoe Oli is on a mission to inspire self-love and confidence in young girls of color with her company Beautiful Curly Me. She has created a line of black dolls with curls and braids, hair care products, and has authored two books - all within the past two years....
Photos of a 90-year-old Margaret Keenan receiving the world's first Covid-19 vaccine should be an enduring image of hope for billions.
