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A new partnership bringing together private enterprise and the UK’s leading non-profit humanitarian organisation for children has been formed to tackle the challenges posed by Covid-19 in Africa.

A stadium in Uganda is being converted into a main hub holding 40, 000 beds to treat coronavirus cases which have witnessed a spike in the country.

Uganda’s Minister of Finance, Investment and Privatization, Evelyn Anite has announced that the East African country has officially begun exporting mobile phones made locally.

The East African Community under the Mobile Laboratory Project on Wednesday deployed nine mobile laboratories and Coronavirus test kits to all EAC Partner States in a bid to detect and respond to highly infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and Ebola.

A group of think-tankers from Europe and Africa are drawing global attention to the impact of Coronavirus in Africa which should change global politics.

Africa is striking a new kind of fear in the heart of the international community about its ability to cope with the coronavirus crisis, given that along with Oceania, it is one of the few continents least affected by the pandemic.

A total 342 Rwandan nationals have returned back home from Uganda after being told by authorities in Kampala to pack up and leave their territory this week over alleged Covid-19 fears, a senior local administrative official in Rwanda’s Northern Province confirmed to APA Friday in Kigali.

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has said starting 12:00 pm today Sunday 22nd March 2020, no passenger planes or human movement shall be allowed to enter or leave the country as measure to control the spread of the Corona virus disease COVID-19.

Uganda’s Ministry of Health has confirmed the 1st case of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) making Uganda the latest East African country to be hit by the deadly global virus.

For 44-year old Ugandan, Jane Werikhe, making the transition from teaching to the male-dominated metal-welding industry has been far from seamless but not only has she survived after seven years. She has also thrived.