Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Criminal Investigations Department-CID needs more than 40 billion shillings to investigate sex-related and economic crimes. The CID director Grace Akullo has consistently cited insufficient budget as one of the major factors hampering daily operations of the directorate. According to the latest crime report, …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A total of 120,000 families in Uganda whose livelihoods have been negatively affected by Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic will benefit from USD 10 million, approximately 36 billion Shillings’ direct cash transfers. The programme, implemented by GiveDirectly, a nonprofit organization that lets donors send money to …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for efforts to build sustainable cities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a video message for the launch of his policy brief on COVID-19 and cities, Guterres said urban areas are ground zero of the pandemic, with 90 percent …

One has to be at the NIRA offices in Kololo by 4am to get in the queue, wait for over 8 hours to be processed, and wait for months to get the ID; if at all. But you can always bribe and get it quicker    Kampala, Uganda | MUBATSI ASINJA …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said there is a mismatch between the school curriculum and the demands of the job market. This he says has created a skills gap among the young people in Uganda. Museveni says science courses have a high demand in the …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Britain has made “a very bad decision” on the Chinese technology company Huawei, representing “a dark day for China-UK relations,” a senior Chinese diplomat has said. Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese ambassador to Britain, made the statement in an interview with BBC in response to the British …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The body of Ambassador Christopher Onyanga Aparr has been flown back, a month after he died in Geneva, Switzerland. Aparr who was Uganda’s Head of Mission and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations died on June 10. According to the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Bank has called for the scrapping of over-the-top tax-OTT. It argues that the move could boost access to coronavirus prevention messages for the vulnerable populations. This is the first organization, a big lender to government, openly calling for the abolition of the …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda Communications Commission-UCC is examining Information and Technological-ICT structures under the Northern Corridor Integration Project so as to come up with a policy to facilitate and regulate online businesses. Initiated in 2014 by East African member states of Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and South Sudan, the …

Here is why the 2021 elections might not happen   Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Simon Byabakama, the head of the Electoral Commission (EC) has been fielding a barrage of questions ever since he announced a revised roadmap for the 2021 general elections on June 16. Now, he might …