Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Ministry of Health is anticipating to register a significant improvement in maternal health come the Uganda demographic health survey expected to take place later this year. In the previous survey conducted in 2016, Uganda registered improvement in maternal health with reduced mortality at 336 per …

Agago, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Police in Agago have destroyed over 600 bags of charcoal in Agago in an ongoing crackdown against illegal charcoal burning.   Jimmy Patrick Okema, the Aswa River Region Police Spokesperson told URN in an interview that the bags of charcoal were impounded and burnt down from …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Parliament has directed the Prime Minister  Dr Ruhakana Rugunda to give a statement on the continued attacks on journalists by security officers in the country. This is after the Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake raised a matter of national importance in which he …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The criminal Investigations Directorate-CID have added another murder charge on two suspects who allegedly hired a special driver from Mbarara, killing him and dumped body in Luwero District. The CID spokesperson Charles Twine identified the two suspects as Simon Lutasingwa and Patrick Sonko who were …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Police have arrested the prime suspect in the murder of Isaac Mugga, the former Manager of Chilies Fast Foods and Takeaway Restaurant in Ntinda, a Kampala suburb. The suspect is Nelson Victor Ofwono alias Octopus. He was picked up from his hideout in Katooke …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The government is not concerned about the decision of some international banks to stay away from the financing plans for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.  Several banks in France, where the lead investor in the project, Total, is based, have stated that they will not …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Parliament has tasked the Defense and Veterans Affairs Ministry to explain the status of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) in Somalia following the renewed unrest resulting from the President’s attempts to extend his mandate.   The unrest started after President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed signed a …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The National Forestry Authority (NFA) has realized Shillings 11.3million from the auction of impounded charcoal. The charcoal was impounded from Amuru and Adjumani districts during joint operations manned by the Environmental Police Protection Unit and NFA last month against illegal charcoal dealers in Northern Region. …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Charcoal dealers have cleared thousands of shea nut tree acreages in Acholi Sub Region. The dealers have over the years spread out in Gulu, Amuru, Agago, Kitgum, Lamwo and Pader districts where they have massively cut down several acres of shea nut trees for charcoal. The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The immediate former Secretary-General of the East African Community, Ambassador Libérat Mfumukeko hopes that he will be remembered as a man who steered the development of several infrastructure projects in the region and removal of ‘many’ non-trade barriers in the integration process. “From 2016 to …