Deadline approaching for Kampala street vendors to vacate city

HICGI News Agency – Updated 0554 EAT on Friday 24th December 2021 KAMPALA-The Kampala City Resident Commissioner-RCC Hussein Hud has said that street vendors have until 10th January 2022 to vacate the streets and take up available space in markets. Hud who was addressing the press at the Uganda Media Center says that vending and…

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Desmond Tutu’s body lies in state

By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 1850 EAT on 30 December 2021. Mourners have been filing past the coffin of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as his body lies in state at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa. Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end apartheid in South Africa, died on Sunday aged 90…

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One million Covid cases daily in the whole world.

More countries see coronavirus cases surge to record levels amid the rapid spread of Omicron variant. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated On 30 Dec 2021 at 1800 EAT. The number of daily new COVID-19 cases worldwide has crossed one million for the first time since infections were first recorded two years ago, according to a tally….

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Kakweza detained over offensive communication.

By Andrew Bagala & Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0915 EAT on 30 December 2021. What you need to know: His whereabouts are, however, yet to be known. Police are holding novelist Rukirabashaija Kakwenza on allegations of offensive communication after a series of tweets about popular individuals that detectives are yet to name.  Kakwenza, famous for…

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ASToN Project intensified at KCCA

Updated at 0823 ASToN Thursday 30th Dec 2021 HICGI News Agency The head of ICT Department at Kampala Capital Authority – KCCA Martin Sekajja has intensified awareness of the ASToN Project at KCCA. HICGI News Agency has established that dons at KCCA want the Project to be known by Ugandans more and have injected funding…

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Omicron, Delta Variants may rise alarm of Covid cases, Says WHO chief.

Surging COVID-19 cases could put ‘immense pressure on exhausted health workers and health systems’, Tedros says. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0815 EAT at 30 December 2021. The head of the World Health Organization has warned the Omicron and Delta coronavirus variants could produce a “tsunami” of COVID-19 cases that will put “immense pressure”…

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Harry Reid Former US Senate dies at the age of 82.

Democrat leader, who helped secure Obama’s signature health care law, died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. By Faith Barbara Namagembe updated on 29 December 2021 at 1340 EAT. 2 Harry Reid, the pugnacious son of a Nevada hard-rock miner who rose from poverty to become the US Senate majority leader and earned a…

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