“Risk–duty–allowances” delayed. COVID–19 front line workers go on strike.
The government of Uganda instated “risk–duty–allowances” for all front line workers fighting against the spread of COVID–19 pandemic. However, workers in...
Coronavirus: Uganda teachers embrace home based teaching technique
Three months after schools, churches among other social gathering institutions were shutdown in a bid to prevent the spread...
Coronavirus: Taskforce to establish institutional quarantine centre (IQC) in Refugee camps
The Arua district taskforce on the coronavirus is considering the establishment of an institutional quarantine centre at the refugee...
Coronavirus: Dilapidating state of sample collection room worries health workers
Health workers along the South Sudan Uganda border
of Oraba in Koboko district have expressed their concern over the dilapidating
state...
Coronavirus: our results delay yet there’s poor health facilities here, Truck Drivers.
Over 50 trucks with their drivers await
their covid-19 test results at Oraba border post in Koboko district. These
drivers consisting...
Ebola crisis looming
Uganda's districts that border DR Congo are at the verge of seeing Ebola outbreak. World Health Organisation officials say officials say...
Coronavirus: “We are not receiving any new arrivals” – official
After the outbreak of intercommunal violence in the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan, that left hundreds dead across 28 villages in...
A renewed wave of South Sudanese asylum seekers looms.
Civilians in the former South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State are fleeing their homes again – and entering neighbouring Uganda. But Uganda...
Coronavirus: More concerted efforts needed
Confronted with coronavirus pandemic, the government of Uganda encouraged the public to give assistance in form of both solid items and...
Coronavirus piles more misery on “urban” refugees
Lockdown restrictions due to coronavirus pandemic brought into force in March, including barring of public as well as private transport, is...