Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Youth and Children Affairs, Hon. Florence Nakiwala Kiyingi, has met with a team of Egyptian investors who have expressed interest to establish value addition plants for coffee in Uganda. In a meeting held at Radisson Blu hotel in the Egyptian …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police spokesman CP Fred Enanga has confirmed the arrest of journalist-cum-Pastor Joseph Kabuleta. “He has been apprehended because of offensive communication against the person of the President,” Enanga said in a statement. According to eye witnesses, Kabuleta was picked up at Drew and Jacs Restaurant in Lugogo …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Journalist-cum-Pastor Joseph Kabuleta was this evening picked up by men believed to be from security. According to eye witnesses, Kabuleta was picked up by people believed to be plain cloth detectives at Drew and Jacs Restaurant in Lugogo ahead of his Friday evening fellowship. Claire …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government is in need of 80,000 Ugandans to work in United Arabs Emirates in the next 12 months. On 26th June 2019 Government through the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social development signed a bilateral Agreement with the United Arabs Emirates (UAE) in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Emotions and tears filled Nakapiripirit district council hall when residents who reportedly lost land to government and Moroto Catholic Diocese broke their silence on Thursday. The affected residents opened up during a community Baraza organised by the Justice Catherine Bamugemereire Land Commission. They told …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Friday tasked Ministry of Energy officials to explain the omission of payment for rock in the contract for construction of Isimba and Karuma Hydro Power Dams. The officials led by the Permanent Secretary Robert …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has warned farmers in the Busoga sub-region of a looming drop in the sugarcane prices which will consequently affect farmers profits. According to Museveni, government has nothing much to do about the falling cane prices dictated by forces beyond their …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda needs 64 billion shillings for its Ebola preparedness and response plan. According to the plan, there is a decrease of 5 billion shillings from the original plan that was launched in August 2018 following an outbreak of Ebola in Butembo North Kivu located …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan Security agencies have tasked their counterparts in South Sudan to beef up security along the Nimule-Juba Highway. The call comes in the wake of resurgence of insecurity that left a Ugandan and a South Sudanese national dead on Tuesday in Lowa Pageri County, Aswa …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It was a somber mood at the head offices of Rwenzori Commodities Limited on plot 11 Old PortBell Road in Kampala on Thursday afternoon. Top government officials and business community were quietly ushered into the upper floor of the building to pay their last …
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