East Africa

The Ugandan government agency in charge of distributing Covid-19 vaccines to government health facilities has told all staff and visitors to present proof they’re fully vaccinated. In a statement, the National Medical Stores said anyone who is not fully vaccinated must show a negative PCR test, taken within the past …

At least 160 Ugandan police officers will be deployed in conflict-threatened Somalia in December 2021, police said in a statement Thursday. Ugandan police said in a statement that the officers up for deployment ‘‘on October 14 completed a six-month intensive pre-deployment training course in peacekeeping operations of African Union Mission …

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has pardoned former Prime Minister Pierre Damien Habumuremyi who was sentenced to three years in prison for issuing counterfeit cheques. The former PM was jailed last year for the fraudulent cheques he paid out to creditors at his Kigali-based Christian University of Rwanda, which has since …

The Kenyan high court has declared illegal the rollout of a biometric ID scheme also known as Huduma Namba that is underway in the country. According to the judge, the rollout went against the 2019 data protection act. The Huduma Namba scheme was launched to bring together on one card …

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday firmly reiterated that there will be salary increase for teachers of humanities. Delivering his address at the national celebration of World Teachers’ Day at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds in Kampala, Mr Museveni assailed proponents of accelerated reopening of schools closed over Covid and put teachers …

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta will on Thursday meet with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, to discuss a range of subjects including financial transparency, security and human rights, the White House said on Tuesday. The meeting, which will be the first time Joe Biden is hosting an African President, will come …

At least two Burundian soldiers, including a lieutenant-colonel, were killed in the locality of Busangana, commune of Bukeye (50 km from Bujumbura to the north-west), the Anadolu agency reports. “It is about Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Marie Nkurunziza and one of his bodyguards, killed during an exchange of fire between soldiers of …

Dr Kizza Besigye has asked National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine to make a public statement to cease fire on the new People’s Front for Transformation (PFT). “I called Kyagulanyi and he said he regrets the on-going attacks on this front. Some people have been asking me …

The Ugandan Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Museveni, has concurred with the recommendation from a section of educationalists that science be taught in local language at primary level, DailyMonitor reports. “Teaching science in local language will make sense to us and we will become transformational when we really get …

Human Rights Watch has called on the Tanzanian government to reverse its ban on pregnant students and adolescent mothers attending school. The campaign group describes the ban as discriminatory and inhumane. The policy was imposed four years ago by former President John Magufuli and is still in place under the …