UN: Fake medicines kill almost 440,000 sub-Saharan Africans a year

In sub-Saharan Africa, as many as 267,000 deaths per year are linked to falsified and substandard antimalarial medicines, a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report found. In addition, up to 169,271 are linked to falsified and substandard antibiotics used to treat severe pneumonia in children. Trafficking these products is also taking a direct economic toll…

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US tracking suspected Chinese surveillance balloon

The US is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted flying over sensitive sites in recent days. Defence officials said they were confident the “high-altitude surveillance balloon” belonged to China. It was most recently seen above the western state of Montana. But military leaders decided against shooting it down as there were…

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Mt. Elgon Landslides: Families To Get 17M To Relocate

Last Updated at 10:20 EAT on 02nd February 2023 by HICGI By Our Reporter The Government of Uganda has earmarked a compensation package of shs.17 million, to relocate people settled in landslide prone areas in the Elgon region. The affected Families are expected to use that money to relocate to areas of their choice. Prime…

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Radio Manager Detained For Assaulting Female Journalist

Last Updated on 02nd Feb 2023 at 08:40 by HICGI News Agency By Brenda Namugenyi Police in Kigezi has arrested Nelson Twinamatsiko 51yrs, the Manager of 91.5 FM Kanungu Radio for assaulting a female radio presenter Anita Tumuramye. It is reported that trouble started when Tumuramye asked the manager to payout her commission of UGX…

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Kenya Bans Morning & Evening Classes to allow Learners have Rest.

By Kioko Nyamasyo Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) Ezekiel Machogu, on Monday, January 30, banned teachers from conducting early morning and evening classes for all students. The CS decried that teachers were overburdening students leaving them with little or no time to rest. Machogu warned schools against forcing students to report before the break of dawn…

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Hands off Africa! Stop choking Africa, it is not a mine to be stripped or a terrain to be plundered.” Pope Francis in DR Congo as A million celebrate Kinshasa Mass.

By Cecilia Macaulay E K Benj & Aleem Maqbool Pope Francis has celebrated one of his biggest Masses, with around a million attendees in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, estimates say. Huge crowds started to gather in Kinshasa well before dawn, including scores of schoolgirls dressed in white who danced along the Pope’s route. A…

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Female Journalist Assaulted by Station Manager Over Shs 40,000/= Commission

Last Updated on 01st Feb 2023 at 11:46 by HICGI News Agency By Brenda Namugenyi On February 1st 2023, Ugandans woke to an unfortunate video that has since gone viral. The video indicates the station Manager of 91.5 FM Kanungu Radio Nelson Twinamatsiko beating his subordinate and female Journalist Anita Tumuramye. Blood is seen at…

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Kyagulanyi, Mayiga and Mpuuga In Crisis Meeting

Last Updated on 12: 36 on 31st January 2023 By Brenda Namugenyi The president of National Unity Platform political party Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has engaged in a closed door meeting with the Katikkiro of Buganda Charles Peter Mayiga and the leader of opposition Mathias Mpuuga. Key on the agenda is the impasse and friction between…

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