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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, the Kyadondo East Member of Parliament has told the Constitutional Court that he doesn’t own any organization in the names of People Power. He was responding to a petition by the former Ruhaama County aspirant, Adens Ntare Rutaro in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Sexual and Reproductive Health Services remain inaccessible for an estimated six million people in the country.  A number of these are persons with visual challenges, hearing impairments, the physically handicapped and refugees, among others.   A group or researchers has challenged the government and policy makers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fifty one percent of the people involved in the Operation Wealth Creation-OWC are dissatisfied, a new study by Kabarole research and resource center has revealed. The study covered Kabarole, Kyegegwa, Kyenjojo, Kasese, Bundibugyo, Bunyangabu, Kamwenge and Ntoroko districts in Rwenzori region involving 512 households. …

Kampala, Uganda | Patricia Akankwatsa | The European Union has joined the Tebere Arts Foundation and the Bayimba Foundation to support the 6th edition of the Kampala International Theater Festival (KITF) to be held at the Ndere Cultural Center and the Uganda Museum from the 26th to 30th November 2019. …

Uganda woos new oil investors in Cape Town Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Despite the current stalemate in the local oil and gas industry, the government remains optimistic that the joint venture oil companies involved in commercializing Uganda’s petroleum resources will reach a final investment decision before April, 2020. …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Plain-clothed security operatives have raided the offices of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) political party in Kasese town. According to Kasese FDC district chairperson Saulo Maathe, the security officers, about 30 of them, raided the party offices along Alexander Street and started ransacking …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Teachers Union-UNATU is concerned about multiple loans acquired by teachers. Several primary school teachers abandon classes in fear of being arrested after obtaining multiple loans from money lenders, which has disrupted classes. Zadock Kamusiime the UNATU National chairperson says that it …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Starting February 2020, women with excess breast milk and would love to donate to babies whose mothers cannot breast feed will deposit it at the Human Breast Milk bank in Nsambya hospital. The Primary Health Care State Minister, Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu disclosed this …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Coffee farmers in Bugisu sub region have opposed the National Coffee Bill. The bill, which is before parliament, seeks to provide for the registration and licensing coffee farmers across the country. The bill also proposes that land, where the coffee is to be grown, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan coffee dealers are halting exportation of hundreds of tons of coffee to see if the global coffee prices will improve. As a result, Uganda’s coffee earnings dropped by 25% from $46.3m (Shs 169bn) in August to just $34.7m (Shs 125bn) in September 2019. …