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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Lwemiyaga County Member of Parliament, Theodore Ssekikubo is blaming his current woes on Security Minister, General Elly Tumwine. Ssekikubo  is currently locked up at Masaka Central Police Station following his arrest on Friday this week for mobilizing residents to defy the livestock quarantine, reopen …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Makerere University, University law Don, Joe Oloka Onyango has given Uganda’s oil management laws a thumbs up for distributing powers to different agencies charged with managing the country’s oil revenues, a move that could deter maladministration. Reviewing Uganda’s oil legal regime for a chapter in …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has implored Public Universities to realign their curricula to address the dilemma of unemployment facing graduates in the country. He made the call while officiating at the 15th graduation ceremony of Gulu University on Saturday. Up to 1,513 students comprising of 870 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The expansion of Nakawa-Ntinda Road that has seen several huge trees cut down sparking mixed reactions from residents and people operating around the road. The 2.82 km Nakawa-Ntinda Road will be expanded to a dual carriage way with two lanes on each side, walkways on both sides, solar Street Lighting, covered …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Army leadership has reportedly started a process of integrating all graduate Local Defense Unit –LDU personnel into Uganda People’s Defense Forces- UPDF. The minimum education qualification during the LDU recruitment drive was Primary Leaving Examination –PLE certificate and the maximum was a Uganda …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 22-year-old woman has lost her life at Apac Hospital due to lack of blood for transfusion. Sandra Akello, a resident of Adok village, Alworoceng parish in Ibuje sub county was referred to Apac General Hospital by Reproductive Health Uganda following a forced abortion. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An eight-year-old girl, Dylan Kirabo who went missing on Thursday at Luwafu in Makindye division in Kampala has been found dead. Kirabo disappeared after she was sent to buy some spices from a shop, about 20 meters from her grandmother’s home. Her father, Hakim …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An estimated 400 artisanal and small scale miners in Ntungamo district have protested the escalation of harassment and torture by the mineral protection police. The miners led a procession from Mwerasandhu tin mine that was leased to Zanaack Holdings in Rwamwire and Ruhaama parishes …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Arua municipality has embarked on the Shillings 20 billion World Bank funded road project under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development-USMID. The 2.8 kilometers road stretches from Arua prisons to Arua primary school via River Oli division headquarters. The project was handed to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Taxi operators in Usafi taxi park are unhappy about the decision of their colleagues to operate on streets. A number of taxis plying the Entebbe route are still operating on the streets and in non-designated places. Taxis are parked at Clock tower alias Kibaati …