At least 27 people are feared dead in a fire that broke out in a building in a shopping district in the western Japanese city of Osaka, fire department officials said on Friday. Osaka city fire department official Akira Kishimoto said the fire broke out on the fourth floor of the building located in a […]
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Launch of coca-cola Christmas caravanDecember 15, 2021 In line with its festive season tradition, Coca-Cola has today launched its iconic Christmas caravan to spread the joy of Christmas with Ugandans in different communities across the country. The celebrations that will last up to Christmas day begun with the official flag-off ceremony of the Coca-Cola caravans
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Parliament, Thursday, 16 December 2021 – The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Transport, Mr Mosebenzi Zwane, has called on long-distance drivers and travellers to make use of vaccination sites that will be put next to roadblocks. The Department of Health announced on Thursday that it intended to enhance vaccination by, among other things, using pop-up
Prince Charles has slammed “nonsense conspiracy theories” around the coronavirus vaccine. The 73-year-old royal visited a vaccination clinic in Kennington, south London on Tuesday (14.12.21) and as he paid tribute to the 127 vaccinators and 190 volunteers who have been working to administer around 3,000 booster shots a day, he also bemoaned hesitancy around the
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Zex Bilangilangi performs at the launch of the MTN Pulse Radio Launch in Kampala yesterday. The MTN Pulse radio can be accessed via the link pulseradio.mtn.co.ug MTN Pulse has unveiled a new digital radio named MTN Pulse Radio in partnership with Next Media Services The new funky and youthful online radio station is another of
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Uganda’s Ministry of Education has released the 2022 academic calendar for primary, secondary, technical/farm schools and community polytechnics. According to the calendar, term 1 will begin on Monday 10th January, 2022 and it will end on Friday 15th April, 2022. Schools were among the vital institutions which were closed in March 2020, following the outbreak
A South African court has ruled that the country’s former President Jacob Zuma should be returned to prison, saying his medical parole was “unlawful”. © Getty Images Jacob Zuma was freed in September for an undisclosed medical reasonThe time he has spent out of prison should not be counted in his 15-month sentence, the Pretoria court ruled.Mr
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(Bloomberg) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken scrapped the rest of his tour of Southeast Asia and will return to Washington after a member of the press traveling with him tested positive for Covid-19, State Department spokesman Ned Price said. © Photographer: OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP Person Traveling With Blinken Tests Covid Positive in Asia The changes
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday surveyed damage in Kentucky he described as “beyond belief” and met with families in neighborhoods ravaged by deadly tornadoes last weekend.After Biden surveyed the destruction in Mayfield by air and then on the ground, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear later choked up when thanking Biden publicly and introducing him in Dawson
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