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Masaka Landing Sites Choke on Plastic Waste

20 Oct 2021 · Godfrey Ssemanda, a resident of Lambu landing site in Bukakata Sub County, indicates that dumping of the foreign plastic materials is frustrating their local efforts of collecting the waste materials for recycling because part of it remains stuck in the floating vegetation cover on the lake.

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20 Oct 2021
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20 Oct 2021

Masaka Landing Sites Choke on Plastic Waste 2 3

Environment East Africa Bukakata, Uganda
Godfrey Ssemanda, a resident of Lambu landing site in Bukakata Sub County, indicates that dumping of the foreign plastic materials is frustrating their local efforts of collecting the waste materials for recycling because part of it remains stuck in the floating vegetation cover on the lake.
19 Oct 2021
21:29
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19 Oct 2021

Uganda Receives Over Ten Million Doses of Polio Vaccines 2 2

Health Politics East Africa Entebbe, Uganda
Dr. Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, the WHO Representative in Uganda is convinced that Uganda will meet the target of ten million children within three days based on its past polio vaccination record. Tegegn however hopes that the exercise will not disrupt or be disrupted by the ongoing Covid-19 mass vaccination campaign.
19 Oct 2021
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19 Oct 2021

Interviews for EAC Jobs Postponed After Uganda's Protest EALA MPs 1

East Africa Politics Kampala, Uganda
The Secretariat early this year advertised over 50 jobs attracting more than 15,000 applications. However there have been concerns especially from the Ugandan side over unequal distribution of the jobs among the six member states of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi.
18 Oct 2021
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18 Oct 2021

Absence of Banking Services Frustrate Cross-Border Traders in Elegu Elegu Township 1 3

Local government Business and finance East Africa
The Town Council has a population of 17,000 people with more than 500 of them engaged in cross-border trade. They deal in general merchandise, agricultural produce, hardware, restaurants and supermarkets among others.
16 Oct 2021
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16 Oct 2021

Gov't Impounds Several Tonnes of Immature Fish 6 3

Crime Agriculture East Africa
The trucks, containing immature fish criminally harvested in Uganda and illegally repackaged in Kenya and destined for the Democratic Republic of Congo were impounded at Mpondwe border in Kasese on October 10 and were on Wednesday driven to the Fisheries Directorate head office in Entebbe pending further investigations.
15 Oct 2021
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15 Oct 2021

Gov’t Starts Mass Treatment of River Blindness Among South Sudan Refugees MInistry of Health 2 1

Northern Health East Africa
David Oguttu, the programme Manager for the National Onchocerciasis Elimination programme says enrolling the refugees in mass treatment will help Uganda achieve its policy of eliminating Onchocerciasis.
13 Oct 2021
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13 Oct 2021

Army Impounds Four Trucks Allegedly Carrying Immature Fish 1 2

Agriculture Crime East Africa Entebbe, Uganda
The trucks, destined for the Democratic Republic of Congo, were impounded in Kasese and driven today to the Fisheries Directorate head office in Entebbe pending further investigations.

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