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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.
Private fuel transporters root for Kisumu port use
Friday, May 15, 2020 0:01
By RUSHDIE OUDIA
The port of Kisumu.
FILE PHOTO | NMG
Private fuel transporters in Kisumu are rooting for use of the refurbished Kisumu port to ease the heavy truck traffic at the borders with Tanzania and Uganda.
Edward Ted Odero, director of Tricon International limited, said using the Kisumu Port could reduce risk of transmission of Coronavirus because there is little contact among the public.
“There will be limited contact and interaction between sailors and crew members operating the vessels as they will remain in the tanker and allow the Ugandan staff to drive locomotives and the products,” said Mr Odero, who owns fuel tankers.
\"A trial operation of a dry mock run at Kenya Pipeline Company at Kisumu Port and a wet run to Jinja port were successfully carried out last year.
The Futsal Super League is the youngest of the 12 competitions under the football association, Fufa.
Majority of the clubs are desirous to complete the season but league managers sense obstacles in return to action.
When Fufa declared the football season null and void last week, the futsal organising body, FAU, was allowed more time to take a decision.
Ghulam Ssengendo, the manager of league leaders, Park, said: \"Clubs have been hit financially and will find it impossible to compete fairly and field players while adhering to the guidelines.\"
At the beginning of the season, FAU became a full member of Fufa which tightened competition rules.
A 21-mile-long (35 km) column of trucks lined a major highway between Kenya and Uganda on Saturday, a sea of diesel engines and goods headed west but stopped at the border for time-consuming coronavirus tests.
The drivers, stuck on portions of highway between Eldoret, Kenya and the border town of Malaba, told Zenger News that Kenyan authorities are denying them access to food, water and lodging.
Drivers who test negative get certificates allowing them to cross the border again without more tests, even though they could come into contact with a contagious person after crossing the border, and bring the virus back with their paperwork.
Authorities in Uganda are also confiscating cookers at the border, citing security issues, according to truck driver John Omondi.
The post VIDEO: Truckers in 21-mile traffic jam for COVID-19 testing without food or water at Kenya/Uganda border appeared first on Zenger News.
Jozef Zinnbauer has confirmed that the decision to axe star players just hours before kick-off against Mamelodi Sundowns were taken by the coaching staff.
Horace G. Dawson, Jr. was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Botswana by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. After his confirmation by the U.S. Senate he served in that post until 1983. Dawson was born in Augusta, Georgia on January 30, 1926. He attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania where he earned a B.A. in English in 1949, M.A. in comparative literature in English from Columbia University in 1950, and a Ph.D. in mass communications from the University of Iowa in 1961. Dawson was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree from Lincoln University in 1991.
Dawson was drafted into the U.S. Army while working on his undergraduate degree. He served two years of duty in both Europe and the Philippines before returning to complete his bachelor’s degree at Lincoln University.
In 1950 Dawson began his professional career teaching English at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1951 he secured a position at North Carolina Central University teaching English and serving as the institution’s public relations director, remaining there for the next decade.
In 1962 Edward R. Murrow, then Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) persuaded Dawson to leave university teaching and join his agency. Dawson did so and was assigned his first overseas post (1964-1967) as USIS (the agency was called the United States Information Service outside the United States) officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kampala, Uganda. He served as the cultural affairs officer where his primary responsibilities included identifying and interpreting major stories in the U.S. press to Ugandan reporters and more generally keeping the Ugandan government and people aware of U.S. interests in maintaining democratic institutions in nations around the world. Dawson drew upon his academic experience to help promote cultural exchange and cultural understanding in Uganda through two publications, Press Time, USA, and Uganda Calling, that were published at Uganda’s Makerere University. Dawson later served in similar roles at the U.S.
So far, a number of countries have begun easing their lockdowns, and, according to WHO's initial analysis, the impact on doubling time - the number of days for case numbers to double in a given country - appears to be varying depending on the timing and duration of the confinement measures.
Thirteen countries in sub-Saharan Africa have implemented lockdowns along with other public health and social measures nationwide, while ten more instigated partial lockdowns in hotspots.
Moeti called for solidarity and a strong focus against the prevention of the virus through social distancing and Kumar Singh Jagutpal, Minister of Health and Wellness in Mauritius, shared how his country has fared against the spread of the virus.
Mkhize emphasised the importance of social distancing and masks and welcomed the support of Cuban doctors who were brought into the country to assist local health were brought in to strengthen our ground teams and we have increased the number of intensive care unit (ICU) beds,\" Mkhize said.
Aceng praised Uganda's leadership in responding to the pandemic at the speed it did with President Yoweri Museveni having addressed the nation 15 times, issuing 36 guidelines on the prevention of contracting the virus and the introduction of a national lockdown.
Truck drivers want Uganda services halted in Covid row
Friday, May 29, 2020 0:01
By STANLEY NGOTHO
One of the truck drivers stuck in a traffic gridlock on the road to Malaba border point on May 27.
PHOTO | TONNY OMONDI
A union representing long-distance truck drivers has called for the suspension of services to Uganda, putting at stake up to 70 percent of transit cargo at the Mombasa port.
Kenya Long Distance Truck Drivers Union general-secretary Nicholas Mbugua said the 34,000 members would withhold their services until officials addressed stigma and harassment in the enforcement of Covid-19 containment measures.
We demand to be guaranteed the safety of our drivers in Uganda,” said Mr Mbugua who was accompanied by Central Organisation of Trade Union officials.
An average of 1,200 truck drivers cross into Uganda through Malaba every daily while 800 others enter the landlocked country through the Busia border in any normal day.
Nile, longest river in the world, c.4,160 mi (6,695 km) long from its remotest headstream, the Luvironza River in Burundi, central Africa, to its delta on the Mediterranean Sea, NE Egypt. The Nile flows northward and drains c.1,100,000 sq mi (2,850,000 sq km), about one tenth of Africa, including parts of Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Congo (Kinshasa). Its waters support practically all agriculture in the most densely populated parts of Egypt, furnish irrigation for nearly all of Sudans cash crops, and are widely used throughout the basin for navigation and hydroelectric power.
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[Independent (Kampala)] World Soccer governing body FIFA has postponed Africa's World Cup qualifying games, to give time to countries to restore the right playing conditions.
National Name: Republique Democratique du Congo
Current government officials
Languages: French (official), Lingala, Kingwana, Kikongo, Tshiluba
Ethnicity/race: With over 200 African ethnic groups, the majority are Bantu; the four largest tribes—Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic)—make up about 45% of the population
National Holiday: Independence Day, June 30
Religions: Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Islam 10%; other syncretic and indigenous 10%
Literacy rate: 66.8% (2010 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2013 est.): $29.39 billion; per capita $400. Real growth rate: 6.2%. Inflation: 7.1% (2013 est.). Unemployment: n.a. Arable land: 2.9%. Agriculture: coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber, tea, cotton, cocoa, quinine, cassava (manioc), bananas, plantains, peanuts, root crops, corn, fruits; wood products. Labor force: 35.18 million (2013) Industries: mining (copper, cobalt, gold, diamonds, coltan, zinc, tin, tungsten), mineral processing, consumer products (textiles, plastics, footwear, cigarettes), metal products, processed foods and beverages, timber, cement, commercial ship repair. Natural resources: cobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, timber. Exports: $9.936 billion (2013 est.): diamonds, copper, gold, cobalt, wood products, crude oil, coffee. Imports: $8.924 billion (2013 est.): foodstuffs, mining and other machinery, transport equipment, fuels. Major trading partners: Belgium, China, South Africa, France, Zambia, Kenya, Zimbabwe (2012).
Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 58,200 (2012); mobile cellular: 19.487 million (2012). Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 11, shortwave 2 (2001). Television broadcast stations: 4 (2001). Internet hosts: 2,515 (2012). Internet users: 290,000 (2008).
Transportation: Railways: total: 4,007 km (2008). Highways: total: 153,497 km; paved: 2,794 km; unpaved: 150,703 km (2004). Waterways: 15,000 km (navigation on the
All truck drivers employed in Uganda will have to undergo mandatory testing for Covid-19 according to new operating procedures released on Saturday.
As part of the new measures, transport or logistic companies will have to test all their drivers within the country and then adopt and implement the new Truck Driver Journey Management System Mobile application for easier monitoring.
Dr Monica Musenero, an epidemiologist and also the Covid-19 presidential advisor says that the new measures will help reduce the fear and mistrust that Ugandans have had towards truck drivers.
Mr Byron Kinene, the chairperson of the Regional Lorry Drivers and Transporters Association, said the new measures are timely because positive cases of truck drivers are increasing the country’s tally.
However, some truck drivers’ associations are not content with the new measures, saying that the plan needs to be clearly defined to cater for all types of truck drivers.
Clarence Clyde Ferguson was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Uganda on March 17, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. He presented his credentials June 30, 1970 and terminated his mission on July 19, 1972. Ferguson was born November 4, 1924 in Wilmington, North Carolina to Clarence Clyde and Georgena Owens Ferguson.
Because North Carolina denied African Americans access to higher education, Ferguson went to Ohio State where he graduated cum laude in 1948. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he also graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Law (LLB) in 1951. During the 1960s, the LLB was elevated to a Juris Doctor degree and awarded retroactively to those who previously completed the required studies. Ferguson was also later awarded honorary doctorates from Rutgers University in 1966 and Williams College in 1976.
In 1955, Ferguson became the first African American professor in the law school at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He subsequently served as the dean of the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. from 1963 to 1969. He joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 1976 and worked there until his death. He was the author of five books and a number of academic articles.
Ferguson served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. He took part in the Battle of Normandy in France and received a Bronze Star. Troubled by his experiences he subsequently “labored tirelessly to safeguard and extend the fundamental freedoms” essential to all men. He began by working periodically on the legal defense team of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the mid-1950s.
Although Uganda had been relatively stable under the leadership of President A. Milton Obote (despite accusations of corruption), his regime was overthrown in a coup led by General Idi Amin, five months after Ferguson assumed his ambassadorship to Uganda. Amin soon emerged as a brutal, ruthless dictator whose policies had a disastrous impact
Uganda has announced its biggest coronavirus cases spike in a day after 43 truck drivers tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Friday, May 15.
Of Uganda's confirmed 203 coronavirus cases, 143 are from truck drivers consisting of 57 Kenyans, 42 Ugandans, 31 Tanzanians, 7 Eritreans, 3 Burundians, one South Sudanese, one Rwandans and one unknown.
Hostility towards truck drivers is growing, with many Ugandans blaming them for importing the virus into the country and keeping then under lockdown that is meant to end in two days on May 18.
On Thursday, ministry of Health said there is no community transmission of the virus after only four positive cases of two police officers, a Ugandan student returnee from Tanzania and a truck driver tested positive from 14,061 samples.
Meanwhile, Rwanda has shut its borders to the cargo truck drivers, with the country encouraging relay delivery where cross-border drivers take the cargo up to the borders from where it is transferred to Rwandan cargo trucks and taken to destinations by Rwandan drivers.
Pitso Mosimane's Al Ahly side surprisingly started 2021 with a goalless draw against Wadi Degla on New Year's day.
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Uganda has risen to 203 after 43 truck drivers tested positive Saturday.
The new cases are from the 1,838 samples from truck drivers that were tested on Friday.
Further details about the positive cases were Saturday yet to be released by the Health ministry.
The total number of truck drivers who have so far tested positive for Covid-19 in Uganda is 143.
Meanwhile, all the 720 community samples tested negative for Covid-19.
