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There are fears that that President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government could soon declare a lockdown over the Ugandan capital Kampala after cases of the Ebola Virus Disease rose to 15 in the past few days, raising fears that the viral haemorrhagic disease could spread further given how congested the country’s main administrative and commercial city is.
According to Uganda Police Force, the fire outbreak happened at SALAMA School for the Blind, which is located in Luga Village , Ntanzi Parish, Ntejeru in Kisoga Town Council in Mukono District. Police say they are yet to establish what caused the early morning fire. Those critically injured are being treated at Herona Hospital in Kisoga.
A mobilizer of President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) has on Monday, October 24, evening survived being killed by mourners at the burial of former Minister without Portfolio Al Hajji Abdul Nadduli’s son Jakana Sulayiman Nadduli in Kaddunda village, Kapeeka in Nakaseke District.
Jakana Nadduli, a son of Abdul Nadduli, a former minister in President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government, is dead, his family has reported this Monday, October 24 morning.
Staff at Galaxy FM in Kansanga, Kampala, are in mourning the death of one of their directors and station co-director and chairman Pius Kamugisha after the businessman perished in a road accident.
Three cases of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have been confirmed at Mulago National Referral Hospital in the capital Kampala, Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced. The health facility is the largest in the country where the viral haemorrhagic fever was confirmed last month.
State House Uganda has cleared air on reports that the country’s elderly and longest-serving post-independence ruler Gen President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni is soon planning to resign his job to allow for a new leader to succeed him in what could be the first peaceful political transition in the 60 years of Uganda’s independence.
SHORTEST-SERVING UK PRIME MINISTER: Liz Truss Resigns 45 Days after Taking Over From Boris Johnson. Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned as UK prime minister in a statement outside Downing Street.
Ugandan first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has sworn that nobody, not even his much-feared father Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, will ban him from accessing his Twitter account and from tweeting as freely as he wishes – even when some his tweets have been labelled controversial, careless and known to whip up social media storms.