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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The 6th Karamoja Cultural celebrations are underway in Amudat district. Karamoja Cultural Day is an annual event celebrated in different districts within Karamoja since 2014. The celebrations commenced on Thursday with arrivals of several participants drawn from Teso, Turkana in Kenya; Toposa and Nyangatom in …

Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP |Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe with an iron fist from 1980 to 2017, has died aged 95, the country’s president announced Friday. First heralded as a liberator who rid the former British colony of Rhodesia of white minority rule, Mugabe used repression and fear to hold …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two people were Thursday night shot dead at Nambigirwa Bridge along the Kampala Entebbe Expressway in mysterious circumstances. Those shot dead have been identified by police as Joshua Ruhegyera Ntereho, a bodyguard, and a one Merina Tumukunde. The second victim was identified by her husband …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Judicial officers have petitioned the Chief Justice Bart Katureebe over a directive scrapping their 30 percent allowances approved by cabinet in 2014. The judicial officers through their umbrella Uganda Judicial Officers Association–UJOA led by their President, Godfrey Kaweesa, say there was improper computation of the …

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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Youths are struggling to access funds under the Youth Livelihood Program. URN talked to a couple of youths who applied and qualified but have not received the funds for financial year 2018/2019. Jonathan Mugagga, heads a 15 member group- Nanganda Lukuli Youth Unisex …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The failure for parents and teachers to adhere to education policies has been cited by educationists as the main reason why children are being sent to school during holidays. According to educationists, children today are not being given enough time to develop and enjoy …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Principal Judge Yorokamu Bamwine has said that the need to amass more wealth is breeding greed among judicial officers. Bamwine says that cases of bribery, corruption, and other forms of misconduct in the judiciary and other offices are caused by lack of satisfaction …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Police Force has proposed a fine of Shillings 10 million or a jail term of five years for any person found guilty of driving his motor vehicle, trailer or engineering plant as an emergency vehicle. This is part of the proposals tabled …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Civil Society Organisations have hailed President Museveni for not assenting to the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill, 2012. In a letter to the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, the President proposed that the inventor of genetic material be held liable for any harm that their …