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From Monday, it will be replaced in England with a message to stay local The UK has recorded more than 126,000 COVID-19 deaths, the highest toll in Europe Updated 28 March 2021 March 28, 2021 10:59 LONDON: Britain is taking another small step out of lockdown as it looks nervously at a new virus surge inundating its European neighbors. With UK coronavirus vaccination rates outstripping those of European Union nations, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is easing the stark “stay at home” message that has curtailed everyday life – and kept the virus in check – for almost three months. From Mo...

When reports came out late last year about more than a hundred children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri province killed or maimed in just a few months, the world briefly looked up – and then carried on. Yet for people in Ituri, this violence continues and deeply impacts their lives. "They killed women, men, and children. We were hiding inside when the door was locked and the house was set on fire. I am the only one who survived”,...

A boat accident on Lake Albert on the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo has left at least 26 people dead.

Boat capsizes between Uganda and Congo, killing more than 30 By JEAN-YVES KAMALEDecember 24, 2020 GMT KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — More than 30 people have died in an overnight capsizing on Lake Albert while trying to return to Congo from Uganda, according to a civil society group. Most of the victims were trying to return illegally to Congo to avoid coronavirus restrictions, said Vital Adubanga, president of the Wangongo chiefdom in eastern Congo’s Ituri province. Traffic between the countries is officially at a standstill as part of the fight against COVID-19. The dugout canoe capsized near ...

Uganda’s School Plan for Refugee Children Could Become a Global Template Format A parent helps his children to go through work received in the study kits distributed by Education Cannot Wait (ECW) implementing partners in Uganda. ECW allocated $1 million in emergency funds to its education partners in Uganda to ensure that refugee children still continued schooling despite the nationwide coronavirus lockdown. © Wambi Michael/IPS By Wambi Michael **KAMPALA/KIKUBE/RWAMWANJA, Uganda , Dec 21 2020 (IPS) **- Thirteen-year-old Wita Kasanganjo is a pupil at Maratatu Primary School in the Kyangwal...