By Emmanuel Olinga–Teso Soroti City is gearing up to hold the first-ever Ateker Reunion Festival in Uganda, with over ten thousand (10,000) expected to attend as the Ugandan government gives UGX 2.3 billion for the event. Vice President Alupo with some leaders Photo Credit: Emmanuel Olinga The celebration, scheduled for …
Read More »BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023 Once considered extinct, Africa’s largest soft-shell turtle known as the Nubian Flapshell turtle has made an unexpected comeback in river Nile sections in Uganda’s West Nile and parts of South Sudan. However, the river shores along Enyau, a tributary of river Nile …
Read More »Letter to the Government of Uganda By Godwin Agaba Lacrosse as a potential tourism gold mine This is a matter of great national importance that deserves your urgent attention! In 2017, my political science professor and former CIA agent in Charge of the African desk, Dr Daniel Young, gave me …
Read More »MINISTRY OF HEALTH MEETS DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS TO DISCUSS POST-EBOLA RECOVERY PLAN By Goodluck Musinguzi World Health Organization joined the Ministry of Health and other development partners to discuss and endorse the post-ebola recovery plan to be implemented in 180 days in the country(Uganda). Hon Jane Ruth Aceng, Minister of Health …
Read More »Ebola Outbreak in Uganda Is Over: Here’s What Went Right By Goodluck Musinguzi February 8, 2023 Colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of Ebola virus virion. On January 11, 2023, Uganda declared the end of the Ebola outbreak caused by the Sudan ebolavirus. The first case was reported in September 2022 and four …
Read More »US lifts screening of Ugandan arrivals after Ebola outbreak declared over By Goodluck Musinguzi The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has lifted screening of travellers from Uganda to the United States has ceased after Ugandan officials declared the Ebola outbreak in their country (Uganda). Two 21-day(42) incubation periods …
Read More »EBOLA FIGHT IN UGANDA – BONNY NATUKUNDA By Goodluck Musinguzi The Uganda Ministry of Health declared an Ebola outbreak in Uganda on the 20th, of September 2022 after confirming an Ebola case at Mubende regional referral hospital. More cases were since confirmed and death from the Ebola Virus Disease …
Read More »Urgent call for better prevention and surveillance: After Ebola outbreak in Uganda By Goodluck Musinguzi On Sept 20, health authorities in Uganda declared an outbreak of Ebola virus after a 24-year-old was confirmed positive for the relatively rare Sudan strain of the virus, termed Sudan Ebola virus, for which there …
Read More »WHO STATEMENT ON THE DAY UGANDA DEFEATED THE SUDAN EBOLA VIRUS By Goodluck Musinguzi Uganda Declares End of Ebola Disease Outbreak Uganda today declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak caused by the Sudan ebolavirus, less than four months after the first case was confirmed in the country’s central …
Read More »UGANDA DECLARES END TO LATEST EBOLA OUTBREAK- DR JANE RUTH ACENG By Goodluck Musinguzi Uganda declares end to latest Ebola outbreak Uganda has experienced several Ebola outbreaks, most recently in 2019 when at least five people died. The latest outbreak of this often fatal virus was first identified four months …
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