Muniini K. Mulera

All smiles because of good news from Uganda and South Africa

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 9, 20210 comments

#Aspen #Covid19 #Uganda #Chemutai #Cheptegei #Zuma #Mkhize #Akii #Bua #Ssali #Ndanguza #Kigezi

Last week was a great one for Africa. The good news from South Africa and Japan put a bounce in one’s step and a smile on one’s face. On July 26, South Africa’s Aspen Holdings, a global pharmaceutical company, announced the release of the first supplies of the Johnson ...

My personal experience with Covid-19 - By Dr. Aggrey Tisa Sabuni

By Muniini K. MuleraSouth Sudan South Sudan Health MattersJune 27, 20210 comments

#Tisa #Sabuni #Covid19

As I share what follows below, I want to thank the Almighty God, who through His Grace, gave me a second chance of life. Possibly to do a few things that I have so far neglected to do and also to share with others what follows below. Putting it in a layman's language, I want ...

Why the Covid-19 pandemic invites us to give thanks to God

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 12, 20210 comments

#covid19 #church #Uganda

Images of family and other community gatherings in Uganda continue to show a very high disregard for basic preventive measures against the spread of Covid-19. A friend in Kampala told me over the weekend that people have pretty much declared the pandemic to be over. He added that ...

Why I am getting the Covid-19 vaccine

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 8, 20211 comments

#Covid19 #vaccine

I received my first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine last week. The second dose will be administered early next month. This is one of four vaccines that have, so far, been approved by Canada for prevention of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus ...

Prayers without action will not defeat Covid-19

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 23, 20210 comments

#Covid19 #Tanzania #Magufuli #prayer

Now, that was very good news from Tanzania over the weekend. President John Pombe Magufuli’s public acknowledgement of the Covid-19 pandemic in his country put a half-smile on my face. Yes, it took the Covid-19-induced death of Seif Sharif Hamad, the vice-president of Zanzibar, ...

Magufuli, Covid-19 and Tanzania's anti-science fantasy

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 16, 20210 comments

#Magufuli #Covid19 #Tanzania

My relative who lives in Tanzania is recovering from a very severe acute illness whose symptoms and signs are very similar to those of Covid-19. Whereas her Tanzanian doctors have not mentioned her diagnosis, Kamacunda (not her real name) has been treated with the standard drug combination ...

Accelerating nightmare in our midst

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 22, 20200 comments

#Nabeta #Mulenga #Nyakayumbu #Mutahakana #Bunyenyezi #Mpwereirwe #Rukeijakare #death #Kahondo #Abakonjo #Covid19

Photo: Rukeijakare rwa Kakitaahi (1946-2020) The news from home has been especially dark in recent weeks. Not that death is new or unique to our motherland. However, the deaths of people with whom one has shared life on one’s Earthly sojourn hits a soft spot with devastating ...

Covid-19 brings opportunities for positive change, even progress

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 5, 20200 comments

#Covid19 #Kigezi #Kigyezi #ICOB #Abanyakigezi

Out of adversity comes innovation. The ugliest experiences offer opportunities for positive change and progress. Even Covid-19 – painful, debilitating, bringer of death – is forcing changes with potential advantages. When the virus reached these shores ...

Covid-19 and Ugandans’ death wish

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 24, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Coronavirus #Covid19

Death has a way of focusing us on survival. We make the necessary sacrifices. We take precautions. We promise to change our behaviours. We set partisan and other differences aside. It is a life and death fight. So, we attack the new enemy together. That was the case in Uganda. ...

Dr. Jane Aceng falls on her sword as Ugandans live in a post-Covid illusion

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 13, 20200 comments

#Aceng #COVID19 #Uganda

Photo credit: "Unknown" The new Coronavirus pandemic has entered the most dangerous phase. This is the period of complacency, where human greed, impatience and the desire for the easy way trump the need for maximal defenses against this dangerous virus. Our pleasure-seeking ...

Mary Aliona, a detainee at Masaka Hospital, is a hero, not a villain

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersJune 29, 20200 comments

#Aliona #Maska #Hospital #COVID19 #Uganda #Ministry #of #Health

A lady called Mary Aliona finds herself in the midst of a storm that is not her doing. By recording and releasing a video of the extremely appalling conditions in which she and others were being held at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital, she incurred the wrath of the Ministry of Health ...

Pierre Nkurunziza’s fatal attraction to corrupted “Christianity” and power

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 16, 20200 comments

#Nkurunziza #Burundi #COVID19 #Power #Christianity

The autocratic, manipulative and bloody rule of President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi must not cloud our obuntu (civilized humaneness). A human being is dead. At a young age. Now forever lost to his wife and family. We have all been there. The death of a loved one is ...

Kenyatta, Kumar and the Nytil security guard

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 25, 20201 comments

#Kenyatta #Kumar #Muyomba #Nytil #COVID19 #in #Uganda

The Saturday Monitor brought news of Mr. George Muyomba, a security guard at Nyanza Textile Industries Limited (Nytil) in Jinja, who was fired because he did his job. According to the story, on May 6 Muyomba denied Mr. Vinay Kumar access to the Nytil premises because ...

US$2.6 million loot by Ugandan MPs is grand political corruption

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 27, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Parliament #Corruption #COVID19 #Kadaga

In a Low Income Country, twenty million shillings (US$5,250) is a very large amount of money. This is the latest loot that nearly each Ugandan MP has grabbed from the public kitty. With the exception of a handful with a healthy conscience, all the legislators have been united in this ...

Africans should respond to Chinese racism with their pockets

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 20, 20200 comments

#Racism #China #Guangzhou #Africa #COVID19

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the truth of anti-African racism in China that had been overshadowed for years by the hyperactive business dealings between that country and our continent. China’s long-reported racist character came to the fore as the ...

COVID-19, misinformation epidemic and pandemic of fear

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 6, 20200 comments

#COVID19 #fear

Philly Bongoley Lutaaya has been on my mind lately. Lutaaya, an outstanding and popular Ugandan pop-musician in the 1970s and 1980s, was one of the first prominent people to reveal that he had contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of the acquired immune ...