RAHU partners with the Netherlands Embassy to address SRHR challenges through ‘Sabotage’ screening Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  A dialogue and screening of the movie Sabotage last week in Kampala highlighted the collaborative efforts of Reach A Hand Uganda (RAHU), The Netherlands Embassy and several partners in initiating crucial conversations aimed …

  COMMENT | MICHAEL JJINGO | “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” Elon Musk. Starting, Building and running a successful business is hard work and if you’re starting a business for the first time, you should be prepared to …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) has determined that Karuma Bridge’s integrity is under threat, and have ordered limited traffic use on it. It will be closed to all lorries, trailers, and buses said UNRA in a statement on Friday. Only passenger vehicles carrying up to …

DAR ES SALAAM | Xinhua |  Tanzania’s weather authorities have issued an alert for a hurricane caused by the presence of low pressure in the Indian Ocean, east of the coast of Mtwara Region. The Tanzania Meteorological Authority (TMA) said in a statement that the severe tropical storm “Hidaya,” which …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Today Friday, 3 May is World Press Freedom Day, which this year is dedicated to the importance of journalism amid a series of mounting environmental crises. Environmental journalists are often the chroniclers of the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Suspended Rubaga Division Deputy Resident City Commissioner, Anderson Burora has formed a National Resistance Movement (NRM) group to fight corruption. Burora was in mid-March suspended from office for alleged continued violation of the Uganda Public Service standing orders 2021. He had openly confronted the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The pace at which the prices of annual food crops increased has contributed to the slowdown of inflation for the last 12 months ending April, according to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics-UBOS report. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released by UBOS indicates that …

LOS ANGELES | Xinhua | Over 200 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested Thursday morning as police moved to dismantle an encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), one of the top public universities in the United States, U.S. media reported. The number of protesters at UCLA arrested by California …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rev. Fr. Edward Muwanga, the parish priest of St. Charles Lwanga Ntinda Catholic Parish, has issued a public apology for an incident in which a young girl drove a toy electric car down the church aisles. Fr. Muwanga, notes that what happened was uncalled …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Old Mutual Investment Group, one of the leading African investment managers, celebrated the exceptional achievements of its sales agents at the prestigious 2023 Agency Awards and 2024 Incentive Launch held at Hotel Africana May 2. The event, aptly called “The 2023 Agency Awards and …