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[Nile Post] The Uganda Land Commission (ULC) has announced shake up in its top leadership amid bribery and mismanagement of funds allegations at the commission.
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.
Press Release:- Senior representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Transparency International and the World Bank will join other leading figures from academia, the private sector, law enforcement and civil society (7 December) at the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) 2021 Caribbean Conference on Corruption, Compliance and Cybercrime (3Cs 2021). The free, virtual conference, now in its second year, will be focused this year on the theme ‘Ending Poverty and Driving Growth: Promoting Good Governance by Curbing Corruption, Money Laundering and Cybercrime in the Caribbean’. It will be held on December 7 and 8 via the HopIn virtual conferencing platform. The
MELBOURNE, Australia — Two men will stand trial over the abduction and rape of teenage girls in the 1980s, including one on the eve of a Melbourne bombing. Convicted Russell Street bomber Craig Minogue was committed to stand trial on May 17 morning over alleged attacks on two women, aged 18 and 19, in November 1985 and March 1986. Peter Michael […]
The post Police Station Bomber Jailed For Life Now Facing Cold-Case Rape Charges first appeared on The Florida Star | The Georgia Star.
Former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe had appeared before the State Capture Commission to accuse President Cyril Ramaphosa of using his political influence to serve the interests of Glencore
[Balancing Act] London -- After a long period with a presence just in South Africa, one of the world's most high-profile music streamers, Spotify has expanded across Sub-Saharan Africa. Russell Southwood spoke to Phiona Okumu, Head of Music (Sub-Saharan Africa), Spotify about its plans.
A white Oregon man accused of fatally shooting 22-year-old Barry Washington Jr. outside of a nightclub on Sept. 19 has been arraigned and charged with second-degree murder, reports KZTV. Police arrested Ian Cranston at his home on Thursday evening before he appeared in front of a grand jury Friday morning. According to OPB, he was indicted on six charges overall: second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, second-degree manslaughter, first-degree assault and two counts of unlawful use of a deadly weapon. The murder of #BarryWashingtonJr is yet again the result of someone starting some shit and once they get hands put on them …they turn soft and shoot instead of just taking that ass beating …that they started .. #BlackLivesMatter #TrayvonMartin #AhmaudArbery pic.twitter.com/KboGGERPz4 — Daryll W Hinton (@asupike) October 1, 2021 Officials say the two men did not know each other before the shooting occurred. Cranston allegedly targeted Washington for approaching his...
[Monitor] The Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (UCAA) has banned mobile phone use amongst airport service providers on duty.
A panel of three judges in Texas upheld the murder conviction of former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger who was sentenced to prison for fatally shooting her neighbor Botham Jean in his home in 2018. In its ruling on Thursday, the Texas appeals court said there is sufficient evidence to convict Guyger, CBS News reported . \"The evidence is undisputed that Guyger intended the result of her conduct or acted knowingly with respect to the result of her conduct because she testified she intended to shoot and kill Jean. That she was mistaken as to Jean’s status as a resident in his own apartment or a burglar in hers does not change her mental state from intentional or knowing to criminally negligent,\" the court stated . A court upheld the murder conviction of Amber Guyger, the Dallas ex-cop who killed Botham Jean as he was eating ice cream in his home. She claimed the 2018 shooting was \"reasonable,\" saying she mistook his apartment for hers, and wanted her 10-year sentence reduced...
[Nile Post] NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine's security guard and gardener have reportedly been arrested, Tuesday.
Nine St. Croix residents filed a complaint against Limetree Bay Ventures on Wednesday, charging that toxic emissions and oil from their refining operations threaten the residents' health and enjoyment of their homes.
Tyrone Da Silva was on Wednesday discharged of the allegation of unlawfully killing Ryan De Freitas, who perished in a boat collision on the Pomeroon River back in 2016.
The article Man freed of causing death in Pomeroon boat collision appeared first on Stabroek News.
