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The late minister Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu's memorial service was postpone to Monday, 25 January 2021 as per his family's wishes.
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.
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti yesterday described President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government as a “terrorist organisation” and a “bloodthirsty” regime planning to spill the blood of innocent citizens exercising their democratic right to protest. BY MOSES MATENGA Biti told journalists in Harare yesterday ahead of the July 31 protests that Zanu PF was a terrorist organisation responsible for the abduction and murder of thousands of opposition supporters. “We support the rights of citizens who have organised July 31, 2020. We support their constitutional right to embark on a peaceful, constitutional protest against the regime codified in section 59 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe,” he said. “We object to Zanu PF’s attempt to convert the 31st of July into another 1st August 2018. We don’t want bloodshed. We want the Constitution to be adhered to.” The former Finance minister blasted Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa’s remarks that described the MDC Alliance, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition as terrorist organisations which were working with Western diplomats to effect regime change in Zimbabwe. “We reject the fascist response by the regime, in particular the remarks made by the deranged Patrick Chinamasa,” Biti said. “A responsible government would have asked for dialogue with the organisers of the events of July 31, 2020, but this regime is unique, this regime is violent, this regime is impervious to logic and objectivity and we have seen a huge clampdown on people including Hopewell Chin’ono, Jacob Ngarivhume and others.” Biti said the MDC Alliance was under siege and that a number of their officials were in hiding, being hounded by the regime. “We are seriously concerned with the human rights situation in the country,” he said. “We are concerned by the continued abductions of our colleagues. As we are speaking this afternoon, we are receiving reports of massive abductions that are taking place throughout the country. “We have colleagues who have been abducted in Chiredzi, in Bulawayo and the length and breadth of the country.” Biti added: “We are concerned about the attacks on the general membership of our movement and the people. We are concerned in particular with concerted effort to liquidate the MDC Alliance. “We take great exception to the description of our party as a terrorist organisation by an individual, a ramshackle individual unqualified to make that statement in the form of Patrick Chinamasa.” Biti said the MDC Alliance was a responsible opposition party that had no intention of “going on hilltops as rebels”. “If anything, it is Zanu PF itself which is a terrorist organisation that abducts people and if you have any doubt about that, talk to Mrs (Sheffra) Dzamara (journalist Itai Dzamara’s wife). “Right now, she doesn’t know where her husband is. Talk to Joanah Mamombe, talk to Cecilia Chimbiri, talk to Netsai Marova, they will provide you with evidence of the brutal and terrorist nature of Zanu PF.” He accused Zanu PF of killing th
From October 11, 1899 until May 31, 1902, the Second Boer War (also known as the South African War and the Anglo-Boer War) was fought in South Africa between the British and the Boers (Dutch settlers in southern Africa). The Boers had founded two independent South African republics (the Orange Free State and the South African Republic) and had a long history of distrust and dislike for the British that surrounded them.
After gold was discovered in the South African Republic in 1886, the British wanted the area under their control.
In 1899, the conflict between the British and the Boers burgeoned into a full-fledged war that was fought in three stages: a Boer offensive against British command posts and railway lines, a British counteroffensive that brought the two republics under British control, and a Boer guerrilla resistance movement that prompted a widespread scorched-earth campaign by the British and the internment and deaths of thousands of Boer civilians in British concentration camps.
The first phase of the war gave the Boers the upper hand over British forces, but the latter two phases eventually brought victory to the British and placed the previously independent Boer territories firmly under British dominion -- leading, eventually, to the complete unification of South Africa as a British colony in 1910.
Who Were the Boers?
In 1652, the Dutch East India Company established the first staging post at the Cape of Good Hope (the southernmost tip of Africa); this was a place where ships could rest and resupply during the long voyage to the exotic spice markets along India’s western coast.
This staging post attracted settlers from Europe for whom life on the continent had become unbearable due to economic difficulties and religious oppression.
At the turn of the 18th century, the Cape had become home to settlers from Germany and France; however, it was the Dutch who made up the majority of the settler population. They came to be known as “Boers”’—the Dutch word for farmers.
As time passed, a number of
All the world's top players, including Roger Federer, are expected to be in Melbourne for the coronavirus-disrupted Australian Open.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The report that U.S. President Donald Trump made crude, disparaging remarks about Nelson Mandela, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning former leader, has drawn an angry response from South Africa's ruling party and others. According to a book written by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, Trump said that Mandela, who guided South […]
Minneapolis protesters say they want justice for George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody.
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
In Minneapolis, fallout from the death of a man in police custody this week continues.
A video that went viral shows a police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a man.
In Chicago, there was a police officer who was found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald.
KELLY: NPR's Cheryl Corley reporting there on the case of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump met in Cleveland Tuesday night for the first of their three scheduled presidential debates.
