President Trump said early Friday morning that he and the first lady have tested positive for the coronavirus, throwing the nation’s leadership into uncertainty and escalating the crisis posed by a pandemic that has already killed more than 207,000 Americans and devastated the economy.
As many as 276 Ugandans, Uganda residents and dependent pass holders flew out of the US Friday destined for Uganda, as the Government resumes the repatriation of Ugandans and legal residents stranded abroad due to the coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
The United States said Monday it would not allow foreign students to remain in the country if all of their classes are moved online in the fall because of the coronavirus crisis.
President Yoweri Museveni has met and held discussions with the Belgian Ambassador to Uganda, Rudi Veestraeten and the Deputy Chief of Mission and the Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy, Christopher Krafft.
American Congressman John Curtis has written to the United States Ambassador to the United Nations over the ongoing violence against the Banyamulenge, inquiring into the steps being taken to address the genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo province of South Kivu.
An autopsy found Monday that an African-American man whose death has set off nationwide unrest was suffocated by a police officer, contradicting a preliminary ruling, as cities including New York imposed or toughened curfews in expectation of fresh fury.
Protests erupted across the United States on Thursday night as anger over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, intensified, with some demonstrators gaining access to a police precinct in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and setting sections of the building on fire.
More than 100 US troops sustained "mild" traumatic brain injury, far more than originally announced, when Iran launched missiles at their base in Iraq last month, the Department of Defense said Monday.
Attackers breached heavy security at Camp Simba
By Peter Ogwang
Three years after the 2016 U.S presidential election, the Americans are still up in arms following classified reports that hackers linked to the Russian government reportedly interfered with the election process where they harmed the campaign of Hillary Clinton, thus boosting the candidacy of Donald Trump, now the President.
