Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Disbursement of funds under the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund- NUSAF 3 programme to Arua district has been suspended over embezzlement of more than 500 billion shillings. Last month, the police raided the NUSAF offices to search for clues into the disappearance of funds. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kilembe Investments Limited (KIL) is stuck with more than 100,000 of her shares worth more than 1 billion shillings. KIL is a power distribution company operating within Kasese, Rubirizi and Sheema districts. It was founded in 1997 as a power company limited by shares. According …
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Washington, United States | AFP | Social media has overtaken print newspapers as a news source for Americans, researchers said Monday, highlighting the growing importance of services such as Facebook and Twitter as well as the troubled state of legacy news organizations. The Pew Research Center report found 20 percent …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is presently enjoying trade surplus with all her neighbours, according to the Bank of Uganda. Trade surplus is the amount by which the value of a country’s exports exceeds the cost of its imports. According to Adam Mugume, Bank of Uganda’s Executive Director for …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Superior Mugaga, a journalist with Voice of Tooro-VOT FM in Fort Portal town is recuperating at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital following an attack by members of Jerusalem Miracle Centre in West Division. Mugaga was thumped by the church members on Sunday when he went …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Brief statements from Uganda’s political party leaders and Secretary Generals will dominate the much anticipated Inter Party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) summit due to take place on Wednesday at Speke Resort Hotel, Munyonyo. The summit will be attended by the National Chairman of the ruling …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s biggest paint company Sadolin has opened its latest color center along Main Street, Gulu Municipality in a bid to expand market reach and consolidate its position in the Ugandan market. The establishment, Sadolin’s sixth in the country will offer experiential shopping for high end …
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Why cute, heart-shaped button isn’t so harmless Kampala, Uganda | A. TREVOR SUTTON | Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s founder and CEO, was recently reported to have questioned how the site “incentivises people to want (the number of likes on their posts) to go up.” He also said that “he was not a …
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Liverpool, United Kingdom | AFP | Jurgen Klopp has called on Liverpool to produce “something special” when they face Napoli in a do-or-die Champions League showdown on Tuesday. Klopp’s side must beat Napoli at Anfield to stand any chance of progressing from their group into the knockout stages. A 1-0 …
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By 2050 some 10 million people across the globe could succumb to drug-resistant diseases Kampala, Uganda | SETH BERKLEY & JEREMY FARRAR | Whether you live below the poverty line in the slums of Karachi or work as a banker on Wall Street, drug-resistant “superbugs” are among the gravest threats to …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
