Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Delegates from Rwanda will meet their Kampala counterparts at Speak Resort Munyonyo today to deliberate on the re-opening of the border between both countries. The Kampala meeting, which was supposed to be held in October and then pushed to November but was cancelled at last …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court has overruled an objection raised by the Electoral Commission in a case wanted an interim application seeking to have Ugandans in the Diaspora and prisoners allowed to participate in the voting process. On Wednesday, the lawyer for Electoral Commission Hamid Lugolobi asked …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A man has been arrested for allegedly beheading his wife, Sharon Kansiime, in a domestic brawl on Wednesday night. Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, said Joseph Mpuluriza picked a quarrel with Kansiime over unknown reasons and in the scuffle used a machete to chop …
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Paris, France | AFP | The French government will unveil the details of a pension reform plan Wednesday that has already seen workers down tools in anticipation, crippling transport for a week as hundreds of thousands took to the streets in protest. A speedy resolution appears unlikely, with Prime Minister Edouard …
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Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | Five people including three civilians were killed when jihadist militants stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital, police said Wednesday, adding that all five attackers had also died after an hours-long siege. The attack on Tuesday evening, claimed by the Islamist group al-Shabaab, took place at …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Samuel Omoit, 28, is a pioneer beneficiary of the skills development program under Support to Skilling Uganda (SSU) in Karamoja. He received vocational skills at Nakapiripirit Technical Institute in 2016 under Support to Skilling Uganda, which is jointly implemented by government and Enabel, a development …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Professor Ronald Kakungulu-Mayambala, a lecturer at the School of Law has excused himself from the hearings of Dr Deus Kamunyu Muhwezi’s case, currently before the Staff Appeals Tribunal. This follows a request by Esther Kabinga, a legal officer at Makerere University. Associate Professor Mayambala is …
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Recommends different approach to issues in new report Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | A new report by Oxfam, the international development and humanitarian organisation, has faulted the government’s land policies. Titled `Locked out; How unjust land systems are driving inequality in Uganda’, the report re-emphasised dealing with gaps in …
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Washington, United States | AFP | For a man on the brink of becoming only the third US president to be impeached, Donald Trump sure sounds confident. “You’re so lucky I became your president,” he boomed to cheering supporters late Tuesday in Hershey, Pennsylvania. “A regular president would have been under …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | In the past few days social media has been awash with pictures of currency notes with political messages written on by suspected supporters of President Yoweri Museveni and Kyadondo East Member of Parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine). The notes in question are of Uganda …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
