Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An Unidentified Chinese businessman has survived the wrath of charged traders after he allegedly ordered his security guard to shoot a casual labourer attached to a shop at William Street, Kampala. The casual labourer had allegedly questioned him on for blocking their shop with a …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is heavy police deployment at the home of Kyadondo East MP, Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine in Magere in Kasangati town council in Wakiso district and his Busabala based One Love beach purportedly to stop from ‘committing crimes’. The deployment follows the police …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three senior Lyantonde district officials are on the interdiction for alleged misappropriation of shillings 30 million. They are Medard Byaruhanga, the Lyantonde District Education Officer-DEO, Anna Byatulinda, District Inspector of School-DIS and District Accountant, Chris Businje. The interdiction of the trio follows their arrest …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Human Rights Commission has ordered government to pay 19 million shillings in compensation to four people tortured by police officers. The victims are Abraham Emuwat, Lucy Apiya, Okwao Justine and Joseph Okanya all residents of Ogosoi village Mukongoro sub county Kumi district. It’s …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have this morning recovered a gun dropped at a factory robbed by armed thugs at Buloba township in Wakiso district. Deputy Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, said police acted on a robbery alert at MMACKS Investments and recovered a Semi Automated Rifle …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Late release of funds is affecting the Uganda Multi-Sectorial Food Security and Nutrition project – UMFSNP in Kyenjojo district. In 2016, the district benefited from project whose major objective is to address the problem of malnutrition in school-going children and women of child-bearing age. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bank of Uganda has opposed some provisions in the National Social Security Fund Amendment Bill, 2019 as unfair to other pension sector players. The BoU Deputy Governor, Louis Kasekende disclosed this while leading a delegation officials from the central bank to submit their views on …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two city lawyers have run to the High Court Civil Division accusing Uganda Communications Commission and its executive Director, Godfrey Mutabazi for contempt of court. They are Ronald Bwire and Henry Byansi of Mayende and Associated Advocates. This comes a day after UCC issued a report …
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It’s fueled by HIV prevalence and multidrug resistance (MDR) | THE INDEPENDENT | It looks like it’s time to pay the piper. The first extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strain of Salmonella typhimurium, called ST313 sublineage II.1, has cropped up in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This fails to respond to …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President, Yoweri Museveni has praised the Chinese Government for extending loans to Uganda and Africa where other partners have been hesitant. He was fielding questions at a press conference he jointly addressed with visiting Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House Entebbe ahead of today’s …
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