Covid boosters: Endless shots might not be a viable strategy, nor is it how vaccines were meant to be used
Late last year, studies showed that third shots (boosters) of Covid vaccines were effective at providing a little extra protection from infection – particularly in the face of the Omicron variant. Some countries are now offering fourth doses, but scientists say that endless boosting might not be a viable strategy,...
Generation of cattle raiders that rape and kill women, ransack houses and steals savings emerges in northern Uganda
Since November 2020, about 150 people in north-eastern Uganda region of Karamoja have been killed by cattle raiders, according to Michael Longole, the police spokesman for Karamoja. A further 73 raiders have been killed by security forces, he added. A government press release in September referred to 400 deaths, while...
In Uganda’s Karamoja region, rampant rustling is met with militarised response as violence returns
The stench of livestock lingered in the empty enclosure made of thorny branches where Aomet Lokong stood, a kraal head without any cows. Armed rustlers raided Lokong’s communal kraal, or cattle enclosure, in northeastern Uganda’s Kaabong district in late November and stole nearly 1,000 cows, local officials said. Six days...
