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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Luweero have recovered two grenades which are suspected to have been abandoned during the National Resistance Army war, in a discovery that has evoked fear that the area is not free of war materials. One of the tortoise grenades was discovered on …

Bwera, Uganda | AFP | A grandmother in Uganda has died from Ebola, health officials said Thursday, the second fatality in the country since a major outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo crossed the border. Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng announced Wednesday that Uganda had recorded three cases of Ebola …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan traders whose goods and containers have spent more than 30 days at Mombasa port have a chance to clear their goods after a waiver of fees by the Kenya Ports Authority. According to KPA, only goods that have spent their 30 days and more will …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The unreliability of the Uganda Broadcasting Cooperation- UBC radio station in Moroto district has surprised President Yoweri Museveni. Jones Othieno alias DJ Jones, a staff at the station told the president at Morulinga State Lodge on Moroto last night that the station, which serves Karamoja …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The construction of Kitgum main market has started.   The market is being constructed under the second phase of the Market and Agricultural Trade Improvement (MATIP) program with funding from the African Development Bank.  Chinese State Construction Engineering Company limited (CSCECL) has been contracted to construct …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr Stella Nyanzi has asked court to reject the testimony of Makerere University Director for Human Resource, Andrew Abunyang defending failure to reinstate her. Nyanzi was suspended from Makerere Institute for Social Research in 2016 after a series of social media outbursts attacking the …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police has advised operators of mobile money to hire private security guards. The development comes in the wake of rampant mobile money attacks. Armed thugs have in the last three weeks shot, killed over seven mobile money and hardware operators in Kampala …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has set up a team to investigate sexual harassment allegations of female personal assistants to Members of Parliament On Monday members of the Uganda Parliamentarians, Personal and Research Assistants Association composed of 150 members presented a petition to …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Another person who tested positive of Ebola in Kasese has died.  The deceased is the grandmother to the five-year-old boy who succumbed to the same disease on Tuesday night.  Dr Yusuf Baseke the Kasese District Health Officer says the old woman who has been undergoing …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One hundred shillings sounds too small an amount but it is the amount Bududa district has in its budget for disaster preparedness. The disaster-prone district says it needs about twenty-four billion shillings but it cannot raise it locally. Bududa District Secretary For Social Services, …