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  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four Uganda People’s Defence Forces  (UPDF) soldiers have been arrested in a foiled hotel robbery in Kampala. The four were arrested by the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) in collaboration with Special Forces Command  (SFC). Without divulging details, UPDF spokesman, Brig Richard Karemire, confirmed to Uganda …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health workers screening pilgrims at the Uganda Martyrs Shrine, Namugongo are overwhelmed with the numbers amid limited human resource and inadequate supplies. A number of screening centres were set up by the Ministry of Health in the wake of an Ebola crisis that has …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda sold more goods to the East African Community, the Rest of Africa, and the rest of Europe than it imported in the month of March, according to the Ministry of Finance April report. The rest of Europe is made up of all countries outside …

It is four months since Joseph Kabila handed over office as President of DR Congo to Félix Antoine Tshisekedi but the former president is still a major decision maker pulling the levers of power in Africa’s second largest country. | The Independent | Kabila’s backed coalition Common Front for Congo …

Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) has identified dark tourism as a product it believes will not only help diversify Uganda’s tourism product offerings but also help the younger generation understand the journey of their country. Kampala, Uganda | The Independent | Dark tourism is one that involves travel to places historically …

“I am a very happy man. Yes, the victory has come late but at least it has finally come,” Erias Lukwago said after the unanimous judgment by the Court of Appeal ordering government to pay the Lord Mayor Shs500m was read out. Kampala, Uganda  | The Independent | The judgment …

The Uganda Rwanda row is like an addiction that keeps getting worse. Kampala, Uganda | The Independent | Leaders of the two nations sat together during the inauguration of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria as tension built up on their countries’ borders. The two regimes in Kampala and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said that former Tanzania President Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was perhaps the most important person in human history. Museveni who was speaking at the annual Julius Nyerere Memorial Mass  at the Uganda Martyrs Shrine, Namugongo on Saturday, said Nyerere was unique …

In about a year, Mbarara, Gulu, Fort Portal, Arua and Jinja could be cities if a proposal by the local government is anything to go by. Kampala, Uganda | The Independent | The government is also planning to upgrade Hoima and Mbale into city status by election year 2021. “We …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lugazi Municipal Authorities are proposing alternative routes for heavy trucks which they say are damaging the tarmacked section of road in the town centre. Lugazi Municipal Mayor Deo Tumwesige Mbabazi says the heavy trucks, some of which are used to transport loads of sugarcane, …