CAPTION: Health workers in Ituri DR Congo disinfect during work recently. (File photo). By Our reporter ADDIS ABABA – Delays in mobilising resources and scaling up the response to the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak could lead to wider regional transmission and greater loss of life, African leaders and global health partners warned on Tuesday, […]
By AgenciesDODOMA: The Tanzanian government said it is committed to strengthen economic diplomacy in promoting investment, trade, tourism, education and employment opportunities so as to position itself as Eastern and Southern Africa’s business hub.Presenting the Ministry’s budget estimates for the 2026/2027 financial year in Parliament on May 26, 2026, Tanzania’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and […]
CAPTION: Health workers carry a victim of Ebola in Ituri, Dr Congo recently. (File photo). By Agencies ITURI/DR CONGO – The military governor of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, the epicentre of the current Ebola outbreak, has likened the struggle to contain the spread of the virus to a “war” for which they are lacking […]
CAPTION: A security guard takes a students body temperature from a student recently. (File photo). By Our reporter KAMPALA – The Ministry of Education and Sports has given schools a one-week grace period to fully implement Ebola Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) following fresh cases linked to the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of […]
CAPTION: Robert Wamala Lumanyika at one of the tax education sessions. (File photo). By Our reporter KAMPALA – Robert Wamala Lumanyika was a tax educator, public servant, and former journalist who died on 24 May 2026 in a road accident near Karuma Falls on the Kampala–Gulu Highway. His death shocked different communities, including the […]
Caption: Rosemary Byanyima, Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital (centre), poses for a group photo with Azhar Sundhoo (5th left), CEO of C-Care East Africa, alongside healthcare professionals and stakeholders during the inaugural C-Care Health Symposium held in Kampala. (Courtesy photo). By Celia NsimireKAMPALA – Health workers have been challenged the sector to rethink the […]
CAPTION: Health workers carry a coffin of an Ebola victim in Ituri, DR Congo. (File photo). Africa CDC says restrictions could increase public health risks and highlight ‘deeper structural injustice’ in global healthA US travel ban for people coming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in response to the Ebola outbreak could […]
CAPTION: President Museveni (C) poses for a photograph with the CDC delegation during a meeting at State House Entebe on Friday (PPU photo). By Our reporter ENTEBBE – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has met a delegation from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) at State House, Entebbe. The delegation briefed […]
CAPTION: President William Ruto speaking on Friday at State House Mombasa. (Courtesy photo). By Chritabel AdhiamboNAIROBI – President William Ruto has defended the government-to-government (G-to-G) fuel import arrangement, saying the framework has shielded Kenya from a deeper fuel and foreign exchange crisis amid ongoing global oil market disruptions.Ruto said the arrangement has guaranteed uninterrupted fuel supply […]
By Prosper Heri Ngorora GOMA, DR CONGO – Sadiki Patrick, 40, is still grappling with the loss of his 15-year-old daughter, Judith, in Mongbwalu, a mining town in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Judith is one of the latest victims of Ebola as the country battles yet another outbreak, the seventeenth in just […]