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[Monitor] The government will deploy security personnel on all rooftops of Kampala's arcades and tall buildings to ensure security in the capital as Ugandans go to the polls today.
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.
[New Times] Musanze Intermediate Court on Wednesday postponed the substantive trial of an assault case involving four grassroots leaders and security personnel attached to District Administrative Security Support Organ (DASSO), all operating in Musanze District.
TOKYO, (Reuters) - Tokyo Olympics organisers wrapped up three days of tests yesterday, trialling a number of security and COVID-19 countermeasures and asking supporters and officials to pack less to wait less when entering venues during the Games.
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THE National Consumer Rights Association (NACORA) has called on government to urgently convene an all-stakeholders summit to address causes of the plunging Zimbabwe dollar and crumbling economy.
Ncube added: “We are calling on the government to urgently convene an all-stakeholders summit that will address the plunging Zimbabwe dollar and the political causes behind the collapse of the economy.”
Ncube said as long as the business community and consumers did not have confidence in the Zimbabwe dollar, there would be no economic revival.
Kadoma Progressive Residents Association secretary George Goliati said: “Shop owners at Rumwe shopping centre were refusing to accept $2 notes as legal tender.
It should also be a concern to the government as shop owners are refusing to accept $2 notes as payment for goods.”
On June 1, it was announced that the City Mall at Camp and Regent streets had been re-opened for business ahead of the June 3 expiration of the national COVID-19 measures.
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Eastern Cape police officers have been accused of killing a 19-year-old pupil in his bed during a raid for a firearm in Tsomo.
It would be difficult to overstate the potential importance of a case before the High Court in Uganda, involving at least 13 applicants against a number of police officers and the Attorney-General of the country.
Mutonyi awarded significant damages for the rights’ infringements in the two cases, and there were a number of important take-aways for the police.
It was clear that the police did not have any real charge to bring against the applicants, but were just filling up cells at the central police station in Kampala ‘obsessed with the violation of individual rights in total disregard of the (provisions) of the 1995 Constitution of Uganda’.
If a regional police officer ‘dumps citizens’ at a particular station claiming this was because of overcrowding, it usually meant that the human rights of those concerned were being violated and the receiving officer was supposed to act professionally and respect their rights.
She concluded that adequate compensation should be awarded to hold police officers accountable as well as ‘any other security agencies that are notoriously known for violating the rights of individuals’.
Ex-convicts who have lived a crime-free life for more than 15 years and have demonstrated that they have turned over a new chapter in their lives could have the record of offences they committed expunged, if efforts to amend the Criminal Records (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act are successful.
At present, certain crimes are not expungeable, but Chuck noted that many who had committed offences and were now playing a crucial role in their communities as pastors, or who wanted to become teachers, still had their past criminal records intact.
“Their families write the minister letters of appeal pleading, but my hands are tied because the Third Schedule of the Act prevents me from expunging,” Chuck pointed out.
He noted that many who wanted to seek jobs in the farm-work programme and those who wanted to become security personnel have been barred because of their criminal records.
For the 2019-20 parliamentary year, the justice ministry wiped the slate clean for 576 people with criminal convictions from a total of 1,382 applications.
[WHO] Mbandaka -- Jeudi Mputu felt unwell. He went for a check-up at an Ebola treatment centre where he tested positive for the virus. However, his visit was short-lived. He fled the facility. A few days later he was readmitted. He escaped once more. \"I thought I was going to die,\" he recalls.
In a bid to get the Ugandan economy moving again after nearly three months of lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, the government on June 11 presented a budget offering a host of tax waivers and funding for the business community.
The plan to boost economic recovery seeks to support the agriculture sector for food security and export, make credit accessible to small businesses, give tax holidays to firms and put money directly into people's pockets.
According to Finance Minister Matia Kasaija, the county's Ush45 trillion ($12 billion) budget for the 2020/2021 financial year is aimed at \"stimulating the economy to safeguard livelihoods, jobs, businesses and industrial recovery in the wake of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.\"
According to Mr Kasaija, the government will roll out interventions to increase agricultural production to ensure food security and expand regional food exports, a move it hopes will restore demand for agricultural produce which will in turn restore jobs and other non-farm incomes.
To further address the short-term liquidity requirements of businesses in the tourism, manufacturing, horticulture and floriculture sectors, the government will defer payment of Corporate Income Tax or presumptive tax for tax compliant corporations and SMEs with a turnover of less than Ush500 million ($133 million) per annum with no accumulation of interests and penalties.
Speaking after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Tambuwal, who had requested for a meeting with the president following an attack by bandits in Sabon Birni Local Government Area (LGA) of his state leading to the death of over 60 people, said he briefed the president on the security situation in Sokoto State and requested for more military assistance to stop the bandits.
\"I have seen him, briefed him on the security situation in Sokoto State in particular, the security situation in Sokoto Eastern Senatorial District and of very special concern, Sabon Birni Local Government Area of the state.
President Buhari had on Thursday ordered a fierce military operation to \"totally crush\" those he called \"mass murderers\" terrorising people in Sokoto State.
He said he would meet with the military chiefs to seek more assistance against bandits escaping onslaught in Zamfara and Sokoto states.
Meanwhile, The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has urged the federal government to hasten deployment of massive security assistance to Sokoto State after bandits Wednesday killed over 60 people in villages in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of the state.
Opinion - The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has demonstrated its resourcefulness, resilience and dominance in the Horn of Africa. Despite numerous challenges facing it, be it the stories about its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the diplomatic row over it with Egypt, which have recently dominated the news headlines, or the security threats in its Oromia, Tigray and Somali regions, Ethiopia remains the envy of neighbors on numerous counts.
(BPRW) STATEMENT FROM 'MLK/FBI' FILMMAKERS ON THE JANUARY 6 EVENTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. Yesterday, domestic terrorists attempted a takeover of the United States Capitol. We condemn this assault, as we…
Maiduguri — A top Boko Haram logistics supplier has been arrested in Borno State by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
The state NSCDC Commandant, Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi, while parading the suspect yesterday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, said he was arrested with a car filled with fuel and other food products.
The Borno NCSDC boss gave the name of the suspect as Bakura Ibrahim, a 35-year-old who was arrested on June 6, at the Muna Garage along Gamboru Ngala Road, Maiduguri.
\"The command came to the conclusion that the rise in attacks is due to logistics supplies and sleeper cells which are very active in the society, hence we intensified our intelligence gathering which yielded positive results,\" he said.
\"On April 4, one Mohammed Mohammed, of Ruwan Zafi, Custom area Maiduguri, was arrested with six vandalised rolls of aluminium conductor cables concealed inside a bag of beans among others,\" he said.
A Johannesburg man is facing an attempted murder charge after a run-in with two robbers resulted in the assailants' deaths on Tuesday. Watch.
Awka — Anambra State has recorded the second case of coronavirus pandemic and the victim was a returnee from Kano.
The man, who hailed from the northern part of the country, was believed to be a dealer on cattle and returned to Anambra State on May 6, 2020, only to start manifesting symptoms of COVID-19.
In a broadcast to the people of the state during which he announced the new case of COVID-19, Governor Willie Obiano confirmed that the new case returned from Kano after a short business trip.
The governor said: \"It is saddening that despite our efforts to tighten security at the boundaries, this new case was able to sneak back into Anambra State after a trip to Kano.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, we have had only two positive cases in Anambra State.
