Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) has started delivering HIV drug refills to people in the Island areas of Kalangala district using medical drones. The delivery will start in Bufumira Islands as a project that will assess the effectiveness of using the technology to deliver medicines …
Read More »Gold miners in Busia struggling to pay for licenses
Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Artisanal Small Scale Miners in Tiira Town Council, Busia district are struggling to pay and renew mining licenses with the Directorate of Geological Surveys and Mines. The Directorate introduced the Mining Cadastre Portal to ease the processes of registration, application and renewal of licenses among …
Read More »Kasese leaders ask gov’t to resettle persons living along river banks
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kasese District leaders have asked the government to relocate persons living along the banks of major Rivers Nyamwamba and Mubuku. The leaders argue that they don’t have land to resettle the persons. They are also concerned that if the current heavy rains continue the district could …
Read More »Moroto youths petition Nakalema over recruitment
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A group of jobless youths in Moroto has petitioned the State House Anti-Corruption Unit to investigate the just concluded recruitment in the district. In their April 3rd, 2021 letter, the youth say the exercise was marred with nepotism and tribalism against applicants from Matheniko …
Read More »Dozens turned away due to COVID-19 vaccine shortage at Entebbe hospital
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dozens of people were turned away from Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital for the third day on Tuesday due to the shortage of the COVID-19 vaccine. The hospital ran out of the COVID-19 vaccine last Friday prompting it to close the vaccination center at 2 pm …
Read More »Unexploded bombs recovered in school garden in Lamwo
Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Lokung Sub County in Lamwo district have discovered three unexploded bombs in a farm belonging to Ngomoromo Primary School. The Ngomoromo LCI Chairperson Bosco Kidega says the bomb was discovered on Tuesday by parents and casual labourers who unearthed the devices as they …
Read More »MP Zaake decries delayed ruling on compensation case
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake has protested the delayed ruling in the case in which he sued the government and eight police officers seeking compensation for torture. Zaake who was on Tuesday afternoon at the High Court Civil Division together with his lawyer Eron Kiiza …
Read More »Gov’t plans law to facilitate merger, disbandment of agencies
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has proposed to have an omnibus law that will facilitate the merger and disbandment of agencies created by Acts of Parliament and those that are constitutional. This is carried in a statement by the Minister of State for Public Service, David Karubanga presented …
Read More »Facelift of ICU boosts healthcare services at Jinja hospital
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The uplift of the Intensive care unit-ICU at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital will boost health service delivery, legislators on the government assurance and implementation committee have revealed. In the wake of the covid19 pandemic, Jinja Regional Referral Hospital struggled to handle critical patients due to …
Read More »MV Kalangala breaks normal voyage for engine survey
Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MV Kalangala will not make its return voyage to Kalangala later today and tomorrow morning because of the engine maintenance survey by the insurers following its overhaul between March 6th, 2021 and April 2nd, 2021. The Vessel that plies between Nakiwogo in Entebbe and Lutoboka …
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