Kenyan Health Ministry yesterday announced that a total of 49 people tested positive for Covid-19. The Ministry carried out the testing from a sample size of 605 people in the last 24 hours. 27 of the confirmed cases are male while 22 are women. The youngest of the infected is a 2-month-old child and the oldest is a 90-year-old. As ...

Tech startups and other innovation-driven businesses have been rapidly rising in Uganda recently. However, these have been urged to make proper use of locally available data centres to help them reduce costs. Richard Zulu, a team leader at Outbox said servers located outside the country are way more expensive. He added that this will majorly be felt by private businesses ...

Members of Parliament are not satisfied with the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. This is because the ministry failed to implement the House’s resolution to allow local governments to spend local revenue at the source. The parliament passed a resolution in September 2021. This urged the government to reverse a directive requiring local governments to remit consolidated funds. ...

A fresh crackdown on illegal taxi touts is about to create hard times for those in Kampala after Kampala Minister, Minsa Kabanda announced tough action. With immediate effect, the minister for Kampala Capital City and Metropolitan Affairs has ordered all taxi and bus touts to leave the city. Those that fail to do so are to be hit with a ...

UPDF soldiers have been in Somalia since 2007 fighting off Al Shabaab insurgents. They are however happy after members of parliament on the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee went there for a five-day visit. The MPs are there together with the State Minister for Defence in charge of Veterans Affairs, Oleru Gudu Abason. They are in Mogadishu to evaluate the ...