KCCA to Carry out Mass Rabies Vaccination for Dogs and Cats

By PCA/KCCA The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) is to carry out a three-day rabies vaccination exercise for dogs and cats in Kampala City. The vaccination to be carried out by the Veterinary Unit will be carried out from September 24th to September 25th between 9:00am and 4:00pm. At least 1500 dogs and cats are…

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Tanzania issues alert over Ebola after new outbreak reported in Uganda

By Halligan Agade Tanzanian health authorities on Wednesday issued an alert over Ebola, a day after authorities in Uganda declared an outbreak of the deadly illness in the central part of the country. “We have received information on the outbreak of Ebola in Uganda and the government has activated surveillance teams in high risk regions,”…

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Joe Biden Condemns Russia as Threat to the World in U.N. Speech

President Biden portrayed Russia as the chief threat to global peace and renewed warnings that “a nuclear war cannot be won.”President Biden used his first speech at the United Nations since the invasion of Ukraine to accuse one man, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, of seeking to “erase” another nation from the map and…

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‘Our world is in peril’: At UN, leaders push for solutions

By JENNIFER PELTZ UNITED NATIONS — The world’s problems seized the spotlight Tuesday as the U.N. General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders opened with dire assessments of a planet beset by escalating crises and conflicts that an aging international order seems increasingly ill-equipped to tackle. After two years when many leaders weighed in by…

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Uganda declares Ebola virus disease outbreak

By Christine Maema Health authorities in Uganda on Tuesday declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain was confirmed in Mubende district in the central part of the country. According to the Uganda Virus Research Institute, the case was confirmed after testing a sample taken from a 24-year-old male following…

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Equatorial Guinea abolishes death penalty

Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty, state television announced on Monday citing a new law signed by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Capital punishment was “totally abolished” in the oil-rich central African nation after the president signed a new penal code, shared on Twitter by the vice president. The last official execution was carried out in 2014,…

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