At least 19 truck drivers from Kenya and Tanzania have brought the virus into Uganda, bringing the total number of cases in the landlocked country to 74.

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Uganda’s Health Minister Jane Aceng is insisting  trucks bringing goods from Indian Ocean ports to and through Uganda be stopped at the border.

Under a scheme being called relay trucking, they will transfer their cargoes into Ugandan-driven trucks to will deliver to local destinations or drive them on to the DRC and the Great Lakes.

Companies have three weeks to recruit the extra drivers.

Ugandans are on lockdown.

The truckers carrying critical goods like food are considered essential workers.

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Kabila’s discussions with his SADC peers proceeded the rejection of Jean-Pierre Bemba as a presidential candidate in that poll.

Lindiwe Sisulu told journalists in Pretoria that DRC President Joseph Kabila has left SADC leader with the impression that the situation in his country is under control.

She denied media  reports that Kabila’s rejected former President Thabo Mbeki as South Africa’s special envoy to the DRC.

The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation says in fact, government has brought Mbeki in to consult on matter relating to the Great lakes region given his considerable experience in these matters.

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