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7 Truck Drivers With COVID-19 Disappear in City Suburb
May 25, 2020 | 19:10 pm[Monitor] Kampala -The Ministry of Health says it has intensified the search for contacts of the seven truck drivers with Covid-19 who were found in Ndeeba, a city suburb, on Saturday night.
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Government Appeals Shs180b Award to Pastor
May 25, 2020 | 19:10 pm[Monitor] The Attorney General (AG) has appealed against the decision by the High Court to award Shs182 billion to a city pastor as compensation for cancellation of his sand mining permit in Lwera, Kalungu District.
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Government Probes 7,800 Pensioners
May 25, 2020 | 19:10 pm[Monitor] The Ministry of Public Service has forwarded at least 7,874 pensioners to the Inspector General of Government for investigation after they did not turn up for validation exercise between June and July last year.
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18,000 'Made in Uganda' Phones Exported to Morocco
May 25, 2020 | 15:03 pm[Observer] Uganda has exported the first batch of 18,000 locally-made mobile phones to Morocco.
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Uganda Spent Shs2 Trillion On Motor Vehicle Imports in 2019
May 25, 2020 | 14:49 pm[Monitor] In 2019 alone, Uganda spent about Shs2 trillion on importation of motor vehicles, data from Ministry of Finance, indicates.
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60,000 Refugee Children Benefit From Home-Learning
May 25, 2020 | 14:49 pm[Monitor] More than 60,000 pupils in the nine refugee-hosting districts have benefited from a new programme of learning from home during the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Traders Feel Pinch As Cargo Storage Costs At Ports, Warehouses Rise
May 25, 2020 | 14:49 pm[Monitor] Traders are concerned over the growing storage bills due to cargo stuck at different entry ports, according to Uganda Cargo Consolidators Association.
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Uganda's COVID-19 Cases Rise to 212
May 25, 2020 | 14:49 pm[Monitor] Uganda's confirmed Covid-19 cases have risen 212. The new cases registered from 1,739 samples tested on Sunday are all contacts to previously confirmed positive truck drivers.
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Domestic Violence Claims Lives of Four Men in Sebei
May 25, 2020 | 14:49 pm[Monitor] Local leaders and residents from Sebei Sub-region have expressed concern over rampant cases of domestic violence during the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Mutukula Police Woman Recovers From COVID-19
May 25, 2020 | 14:49 pm[Monitor] A police woman attached to Mutukula Border Police Station, who had tested positive for Covid-19 has been discharged from Masaka Regional Referral Hospital.
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Eight Feared Dead in Lake Albert Accident
May 25, 2020 | 14:38 pm[Monitor] Eight people are feared dead after a canoe boat in which they were travelling capsized on Lake Albert on Sunday.
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Open Places of Worship - Mubajje
May 25, 2020 | 14:38 pm[Monitor] Ugandans yesterday joined Muslims across the world to celebrate Idd-ul-Fitr under lockdown.
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Chaos As Nema Orders Closure of Flooded Beaches
May 25, 2020 | 14:38 pm[Monitor] The National Environment Management Authority (Nema) has directed Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to close three beaches and two markets, citing "untenable" use after rising levels of Lake Victoria.
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Livestock Farmers Fault Government On Mass Vaccination
May 25, 2020 | 12:56 pm[Monitor] A section of livestock farmers in Rakai, Lyantonde, Sembabule, Kyotera and Kiruhura districts have accused government of selectively carrying out mass vaccination of cattle against the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).
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Schools Resort to Zoom Classes As Online Teaching Takes Shape
May 25, 2020 | 12:22 pm[Monitor] As government discusses plans to reopen educational institutions, some schools across the country have devised innovative ways, including using online app Zoom, to keep learners active during the lockdown.
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People Living With Albinism Cry Out Over Lockdown
May 25, 2020 | 11:57 am[Monitor] Persons living with albinism have raised a red flag over a looming skin cancer exposure due to lack of access to sunscreens.
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Private Schools Condition Government On Reopening Schools
May 25, 2020 | 11:57 am[Monitor] Private school owners have set pre-conditions for the government ahead of partial school reopening, demanding relief food and exemption from paying local taxes and candidates' registration fees for national examinations.
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Education Ministry, Heads Review Options On School Reopening
May 25, 2020 | 11:56 am[Monitor] On Monday, President Museveni directed the Ministry of Education and Sports to come up with an action plan within a fortnight to guide the reopening of schools to pupils and students in candidate classes and finalists in universities and[…]
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Five MV Kalangala Crew Members Quarantined Upon Arrival From Tanzania
May 25, 2020 | 11:47 am[Monitor] Five crew members of MV Kalangala have been placed under quarantine upon arriving at Nakiwogo Pier, Entebbe Municipality from Tanzania.
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Uganda Bikers Offer Aid to Kasese Flood Victims
May 25, 2020 | 11:47 am[Monitor] Uganda is facing challenging times, with the coronavirus pandemic topping the charts.
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Uganda Registers 15 New Cases, 23 Positive Truckers Returned to Country of Origin
May 25, 2020 | 11:41 am[Monitor] At least 15 more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Uganda, bringing the country's tally to 175, the Ministry of Health has said.
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Government Faces Hurdles in Plans to Reopen Schools
May 25, 2020 | 11:07 am[Monitor] The Ministry of Education and Sports is stuck with President Museveni's directive to reopen schools to candidate classes as the country prepares to begin a phased easing of the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Museveni Wins Twitter Case
May 25, 2020 | 11:00 am[Monitor] President Museveni was right to block one of his Twitter followers on his private Twitter handle, the High Court in Kampala has ruled.
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How Police Dogs Were Used in the Kiruhura Murders
May 25, 2020 | 10:29 am[Monitor] Two police dogs were introduced, apparently independent of each other, on Saturday August 17, 2013 at the scene, where six people were killed in Kiruhura District.
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Government Should Invest More in Arts and Culture Sector
May 25, 2020 | 10:29 am[Monitor] In the past, musicians, painters, and sculptors enjoyed patronage of kings, popes, and the wealthy, especially the merchants.
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Simba Roared to 1972 Cl Final in Military Style
May 25, 2020 | 10:28 am[Monitor] Simba will have read coverage of Villa's run to the African Cup of Champions Clubs final - now Caf Champions League - on this page a fortnight ago and wondered when SCORE would flip its history pages for the[…]
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Ugandans Develop App for COVID-19 Contact Tracing
May 25, 2020 | 10:28 am[Monitor] As Covid-19 pandemic wreaks havoc worldwide, many scientists are looking for possible solutions to flatten the curve and slow the spread of the infection.
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38 Foreign Truckers Blocked As COVID-19 Cases Rise to 198
May 24, 2020 | 14:57 pm[Monitor] At least 23 more Ugandans have tested positive for COVID-19 as the country's confirmed cases on Saturday rose to 198.
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Uganda Celebrates Africa Day With Hope Tomorrow
May 24, 2020 | 13:15 pm[Monitor] May 25 is celebrated annually in Uganda and elsewhere on the African continent as Africa Day to commemorate the day on which the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1963 by 32 sovereign[…]
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Court Summons 3 Firms Over Tullow Oil Tax Case
May 24, 2020 | 13:10 pm[Monitor] The Commercial Court has summoned three United Kingdom- based law firms who were the masterminds of the deal in which Tullow Oil plc avoided paying taxes worth $1.1 billion (about Shs4.1 trillion) to the Ugandan national treasury following an[…]
