Uganda hands out Covid-relief cash
Uganda begins giving free cash to those affected by lockdown measures due to Covid-19.
Uganda government has begun distributing Covid-relief cash to about half a million people living in cities and other urban areas affected by the second Covid-19 lockdown; What does the future look like for South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma who has just begun serving his jail sentence?; A decade after obtaining independence, how far is South Sudan from realising its objectives of peace and democracy? And a writer writing about a writer: Egyptian author Iman Mersa on the book that earned her the Sheikh Zaid Book award.
(Photo: President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni. Credit: AFP)
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