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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Rector of Namugongo Catholic Martyrs’ Shrine, Rev. Vincent Lubega says this year’s Uganda’s Martyrs’ Day celebrations have been historic, something he had never witnessed since pilgrimage to the shrine began more than five decades ago. Rev. Lubega says there were many preparation elements …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Church of Uganda has installed Rhodah Nakimuli Kasujja, as the heir to the former Prime Minister Prof. Apolo Nsibambi. Nakimuli is Nsibambi’s eldest daughter. This was during a requiem Service held on Tuesday at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Namirebe for the former Premier who …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The call to operationalize Islamic Banking dominated Eid al Fitr prayers at Kibuli Mosque on Tuesday. Islamic banking is a system based on the Islamic economic guidelines in as far as the Sharia law is concerned. Under this system, the banks make profits through …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Foreign Pilgrims from countries Kenya and Tanzania have taken up a task of cleaning up Namugongo, the site of the annual Uganda Martyrs Day Celebration. The shrine was by this morning covered up in heaps of garbage comprising plastic bottles, papers and polyethene bags, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mufti of Uganda Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubaje has urged Muslims to be peacemakers within their communities and throughout the country.  He said that the strength of the Islamic faith should be achieved and persevered through unity and a peaceful co-existence. Mubaje also said that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security authorities in Kyotera district have petitioned the Ministry of East African Community Affairs, for a fire fighting equipment at the Mutukula One Stop Border Post. Mutukula One Stop Border Point-OSBP is the direct entry point between Uganda and Tanzania where a host immigration activities …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than a dozen pilgrims are stranded at Namugongo Catholic Martyrs Shrine.   Mostly women aged between 60 and 75, the pilgrims from the districts of Mbale, Kayunga, Wakiso, Mubende and Mbarara are seeking financial aid to travel back home. The stranded pilgrims say they were …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The failure by governments across the world to ensure clear air, constitutes a violation of the rights to life, health and well-being, as well as the right to live in a healthy environment, an independent UN expert has said. Ahead of the 2019 World Environment …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF is set to streamline retirement of all officers irrespective of their ranks. Speaking on Monday to the second batch of officers and men who are undergoing a two weeks induction workshop on life after retirement at Gadaffi barracks, the Chief …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Sudan’s military on Tuesday cancelled a power-transfer agreement with protesters and called for elections within nine months, a day after more than 35 demonstrators were killed in what they called a “bloody massacre”. Protest leaders called on their supporters to take part in “total civil …