Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Saving schemes under the Uganda Co-operative Savings and Credit Union Limited have petitioned Parliament challenging the proposed corporation tax on SACCOs. Government suggested a corporation tax on profitable SACCOs in the financial year 2018/2019. Corporation tax is a tax imposed on the net income of …

Munich, Germany | AFP | Real Madrid moved a step closer to a third straight Champions League title after substitute Marco Asensio hit the winner in a 2-1 semi-final, first-leg victory at Bayern Munich on Wednesday. The 22-year-old came off the bench to finish a counter-attack and complete the holders’ …

Showing government how national health insurance scheme should run? Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | Hillary Ssempa has nothing good to say about government healthcare facilities. For him, their promise of free, quality medical care is hollow. He no longer goes to government health facilities but recalls that whenever he …

Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | South African police said on Tuesday one of their officers had shot dead a teenager during anti-corruption protests which have forced the president to cut short a foreign trip. Riots over alleged government corruption and poor public services erupted last week in the North …

Makurdi, Nigeria | AFP | Two priests were among at least 18 people killed in a dawn attack on a church in central Nigeria, police said Tuesday, in violence condemned by President Muhammadu Buhari as “satanic”. Around 30 suspected herdsmen attacked Mbalom community in the volatile region killing the worshippers …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Tony Elumelu is the founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, which is currently running a 10 year –The Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme–worth US$100 million. The Independent’s Julius Businge captured some of the responses to the key issues raised during a public lecture on Africapitalism …

Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Three soldiers and 30 jihadists have been killed in the past week in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula where the military is battling the Islamic State group, the army said Wednesday. Around 200 jihadists and at least 33 government troops have now been killed since the launch …

`Small idea’ by high school students has become global anti-genocide movement Kampala, Uganda | STEPHEN NUWAGIRA & FRANCIS BYARUHANGA | A sea of dark mass captures my attention as I head towardsthe Rwandan Parliament on this cloudy Saturday evening. It’s a mass of people clad mostly in black or dark …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The proposed introduction of new taxes on mobile money transactions and social media has met stiff rejection from civil society activists. Government has proposed to introduce a 10 percent final withholding tax on commissions by telecommunication companies to mobile money and airtime agents and Shillings …

New report gives unexpected clues Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans are becoming one of the unhappiest people in the world, according to the latest World Happiness Report 2018 that was released on March 14 by the United Nations. Uganda is ranked at 135, just 21 slots from the …