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Health ministers from nine African countries on wednesday agreed on joint measures to stop the potential spread of the ongoing Ebola disease outbreak in Uganda and beyond its borders, APA can report.
The rising death toll from Ebola virus in Western Uganda is fueling fears in the East Africa region, as authorities and aid agencies rally efforts to contain the deadly virus.
Parliament has passed the Uganda Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill 2022 setting tough penalties for dealing in human organs for commercial purposes.
Four suspected cases of Ebola are on the run after running away from health workers in Madudu sub-county in Mubende, APA learnt on Friday.
In an accelerated effort to scale up response to the Ebola disease outbreak in Uganda, World Health Organization (WHO) is delivering medical supplies, providing logistics and deploying staff to support the national authorities in halting the spread of the virus.
The 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.
Uganda has paid some $65m as the first of three instalments of a fine the International Court of Justice had imposed on it last February as reparations over its invasion of neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo in the early 2000s, APA learnt on Monday.
The Ugandan parliament has passed the Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill, 2022 privately moved by independent MP for Kampala Central Muhammad Nsereko, which imposes tough penalties for cyber-crimes.
The Deputy Speaker of the Ugandan parliament, Thomas Tayebwa has pledged to champion efforts to establish Diaspora bonds.
Nothing much has been reported about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony over the past few years, fuelling speculations about the whereabouts of Africa’s most elusive rebel leader of the past 35 years.