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Tanzania’s president, John Pombe Magufuli has died. The president apparently succumbed to heart failure. The Vice President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, announced and also declared a 14 day mourning period. He apparently died at 6 pm yesterday evening as he received treatment. There have been rumours for some days now that Magufuli had contracted Coronavirus. People had not seen the president ...

Kampala City Council Authority(KCCA), yesterday evicted street children amidst resistance from them. KCCA carried out this operation in partnership with Dwelling Places home. This is not the first time KCCA is evicting street children from Kampala. As usual, the kids were clearly not interested in going with the crew. This brings a lot of questions to mind though. Who wouldn’t ...

The Uganda Railway Corporation has confirmed that the train accident that occurred on Monday was caused by a gauge shift. The accident happened at about 10 am at the Mukwano roundabout railway crossing. The cargo train derailed and blocked traffic at the roundabout for over two hours before engineers disentangled the locomotive from the wagons. They cleared the road and ...

The demand for democracy and support for elections as the best means for choosing the country’s leaders have declined since 2011, new Afro Barometer survey findings have indicated. According to the survey, although large majority of Ugandans feel free to say what they want 83%, free to choose whom to vote for 93%, join any political organisation 88%, people have ...

Former US President Donald Trump is urging his Republican supporters to get the vaccine against Covid-19, saying he would recommend it. In a TV interview, Trump said the vaccine is “safe” and “something that works”. Mr Trump’s conservative fan base has been one of the main groups resistant to the vaccine programme. The media criticized the former president himself during ...