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Liverpool Could Be Crowned Premier League Champions Due To COVID-19 Lockdown

Liverpool Could Be Crowned Premier League Champions Due To COVID-19 Lockdown

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By Elite Reporter English giants Liverpool will be crowned Premier League champions if the season cannot be completed, according to local media reports. The Premier League had to be stopped after matchday 29 as a precautionary measure against Coronavirus pandemic. Liverpool were on the threshold of ending their 30-year drought before the season was stalled because of the outbreak. The Reds fans fear they won't see their beloved team lift the title as ending the season as null and void has also been mooted. According to a report published in the Daily Mail, Liverpool will become champions of England for 19th time if the season cannot be restarted due to COVID-19 crisis. UEFA -- the European football governing body -- on Thursday stated that Champions League qualifications will...
President Museveni Rejects Bobi Wine’s  Plane Offer To Evacuate Ugandans From China

President Museveni Rejects Bobi Wine’s Plane Offer To Evacuate Ugandans From China

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By Elite Reporter The President of Uganda Yoweri  Kaguta Museveni has rejected People Power leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine's proposal for a plane to airlift Ugandans stranded in China due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. Bobi  Wine last week wrote to government through the Prime Minister  Dr Ruhakana Rugunda,  offering a plane to airlift Ugandans, after many of them shared videos on social media crying out, following the Xenophobia in China. In a letter dated April 15, and addressed to Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, Bobi Wine, said he  partnered with an American media owner and businessman Neil Nelson to evacuate 285 Ugandans and other black Africans currently stuck in China. Some of the Africans stranded in China Bobi Wine in his letter...
EPHWOR   Rescues Vulnerable Rural Women With ARV Refills And Contraceptives

EPHWOR Rescues Vulnerable Rural Women With ARV Refills And Contraceptives

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By Elite Reporter Ever since the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic broke out in Uganda, several women and adolescent girls, plus people living with HIV/AIDS are suffering due to lack of access to contraceptives and Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARVs) respectively. It should be noted that the government is currently undertaking a campaign to donate food and other social amenities to some Ugandans. However, whereas government’s efforts to donate posho and beans to Ugandans affected by the COVID-19 lockdown are appreciated, health practitioners observe that people with chronic diseases like cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes and others that need periodic refills for drugs have been neglected. EPHWOR members delivering medication to women in rural areas In the same vein, women and adolescen...