Former South African President Jacob Zuma turned himself in recently to serve his 15-month jail sentence according to officials. Prison authorities confirmed that Zuma has been admitted to start serving his sentence at Estcourt Correctional Centre. The facility is located in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal.It is the first time for a former president to be jailed in post-apartheid South ...

Representatives of private hospitals led by the Bugweri County MP Abdu Katuntu made a joint presentation. It happened on Tuesday before the parliament to clarify and defend the high charges Covid-19 patients have faced in the private health sector Grace Ssali Kiwanuka spoke on behalf of the Uganda Healthcare Federation. He said on average, they spend about Shs3.5m per day ...

The women league at NUP has demanded transparency in the registration of the Covid19 relief recipients. They held a press conference at Hotel Africana in Kampala on Monday. During this conference, the chairperson of the Kyeyune Zone in Kabalagala, Caroline Nanvuma, highlighted the 595 residents in her zone. Nanvuma said out of all those, only 29 people appeared on the ...

The Katosi Water Treatment Plant uses the ‘’Dissolve Air Floatation’’ technology that is more suitable for raw water with algae and low turbidity. Through the floatation process, they remove impurities and filter the clarified water through sand filters. After this process, they disinfect and supply the water to the distribution network. In particular, the plant has a very low footprint, ...

Ethiopia said it has begun its next phase of filling a controversial mega-dam on the Nile River according to Egyptian authorities. This has risen tensions ahead of an upcoming UN Security Council on the issue. Egypt said the move is ‘’a violation of international laws and norms that regulate projects built on the shared basins of international rivers’’. The country ...