Health
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Lira City Vendors Shun Directive To Spend Nights In Markets
LIRA – Vendors selling foodstuffs in Lira City have disregarded a directive by President Yoweri Museveni to spend nights in markets as a measure to control the spread of Covid-19, as Uganda…
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Schools Advised to Join Cooperative Health Insurance Schemes
SOROTI – Bethesda, a private health facility has embarked on a community health insurance scheme to help those in need. The scheme started way back in 2019 with a training, to bring…
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Mbarara Haunted By FMD and Lockdown
MBARARA – As many people continue feasting on fresh meat, residents of Mbarara City are involuntarily abstaining from meat following the ban on sale over Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) that has…
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Mbarara Businesses Closed Down
Security operatives in Mbarara City on Monday morning closed down on all businesses and offices, they claim were violating the presidential directives on Covid19. Streets of Mbarara City and its outskirts remained…
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Masindi Fails To Pay Covid-19 District Task Force
MASINDI – The Covid-19 district task force here has no money to enforce adherence to measures meant to slow the spread of viral disease. In a speech during the recent Covid-19 district…
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Errant Boda-bodas Warned: You Will Be Banned
MASINDI – Errant Boda-bodas in Masindi District have been buffeted with warnings of the risks of flouting the presidential lockdown directives meant to slow the spread of Covid-19. Iddi Onyera, the chairman…
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Victims of Flooding in Kwania Get Food
KWANIA – At least 757 displaced people in Nambieso Sub County in Kwania District whose houses and property were destroyed by extreme flooding last December have received relief food. Last December, over…
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Covid-19 Stirs Scramble For Lemon, Ginger
HOIMA – Lemon and ginger prices are climbing higher in Hoima as demand soars for the fruits deemed to have immunity-boosting properties against the rampaging novel Coronavirus. There have been more than…
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Amuru Traders Stuck With Piles Of Rotting Food
AMURU – To traders in Amuru, piles of rotting food stuck on their market shelves are a sour pain inflicted by the government’s recent cross border movement restrictions of Elegu border. These…
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Traditional Herbalists In Tree Restoration Drive
GULU – Traditional herbalists in Acholi sub-region allied to Wise Women Uganda are replanting indigenous herbal trees, which are facing extinction. Some of the endangered tree species include; Afzelia Africana, commonly known…
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