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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  National Water and Sewerage Corporation has dismissed 31 Prepaid Water Meter Token Vendors. They had been recruited and trained to distribute water tokens to consumers in Kampala city. The layoff of the agents climaxed last month since it started at the beginning of the year. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The World Bank has urged the Ugandan government to pass the Special Needs and Inclusive Education policy which has remained in a draft for close to ten years.   The policy, which was drafted in 2011, makes it mandatory for all schools to have special needs …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has allayed concerns raised by the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Egypt, Ali Abdel-Aal, on the use of the River Nile whose basin is situated on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Kadaga said this during a bilateral meeting …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Freedom Square, which was once a perfectly green field is now riddled with large patches of mud, coursed through by tire tracks, following the Friday 11th economics exhibition. The Square remained littered with sheer amounts of disposables from the same event till this week when …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  A row has erupted between Rukiga district councillors and the office of the Chief Administrative Officer over a failed agriculture tour. On September 26th, councillors resolved during a council session to have an agriculture tour in Masaka district. The council resolved that the office of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Kampala Geopolitics Conference 2019 had it all on day one.  African and global politics, debate and Intellectualism rolled in a few hours….and that is before an even more promising day two, due Friday at Makerere University. The conference was “…fired by the most impressive and energetic moderation …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Government of Uganda through National Water and Sewerage Corporation has taken over piped water supply operations in Rwamwanje-Kamwenge district. This follows the signing of an MoU between the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and NWSC to provide reliable water supply to over …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Uganda government will once again withdraw money from the petroleum fund and use it to fund the 2019/220 financial year budget. According to Bank of Uganda, government will withdraw 445 billion shillings which will be transferred from the fund to the consolidated fund for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Parents have expressed dissatisfaction with the manner in which the government has handled the ongoing Measles-Rubella mass vaccination campaign that started yesterday, across the country. The five-day campaign is supposed to provide a booster dose for measles and introduce the rubella vaccine among children …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The police top leadership headed by Deputy Inspector General of Police –DIGP Maj Gen Muzeeyi Sabiiti, is in Kisozi, Mpigi District to deliver a plan to President Museveni on fighting gangs in Kampala. A senior police source at police headquarters in Naguru who preferred …