WHO rebukes Tanzania’s ongoing lack of cooperation, transparency during COVID-19 fight
World Health Organization (WHO) has chided Tanzania for its ongoing lack of cooperation and transparency in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
After days...
Global coronavirus infections surpass 4 million with over 270k fatalities
Coronavirus infections have surpassed 4 million globally. As of Friday, the number of infections stood at 4,006,410 and 275,698 deaths while the number of...
Lake Victoria records highest water level
Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest fresh water body, has recorded its highest ever water level, a hydropower generation said on Friday.
Eskom Uganda Limited, in a...
Tanzania receives anti-COVID-19 herbal cure from Madagascar
Last month President Andry Rajoelina launched the remedy at a news conference, drinking from a sleekly-branded bottle filled with an amber liquid which he...
MPs want learning on TVs, radios suspended
Members have demanded an explanation from the Minister of Education on the measures put in place to cater for students living disability like hearing...
An eye for an eye! LDU dead after killing boda boda rider, pregnant woman
A Local Defence Unit (LDU) officer who shot dead the LC I Chairperson of Katovu village, Malongo Sub-county, Lwengo district, has been gunned down...
Coronavirus found in men’s semen raising possibility it could be sexually transmitted
AFP | The new coronavirus can persist in men’s semen even after they have begun to recover, a finding that raises the possibility the virus...
WHO cautions against use of Madagascar anti-virus potion
The World Health Organization on Thursday advised governments to clinically test a herbal drink touted by Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina as a remedy against...
Hackers Disrupt Virtual S. African Parliament Meeting With Porn
Hackers on Thursday disrupted a virtual session of South Africa's parliament, posting pornographic images in the second such incident since the coronavirus outbreak.
The "meeting...
Global food commodity prices drop further
World food commodity prices declined for the third month in a row during April, as the economic and logistical impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in...