Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buganda Road Primary School is the champion of this year’s National Primary Schools Music, Dance and Drama Competition. Buganda Road Primary School garnered 917 points at the weeklong festival held at Sacred Heart Secondary School in Gulu town that ended on Saturday. The festive saw …
Read More »Missing NGO staff found dead
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have recovered the body of Maria Nagirinya who went missing two days ago. Her body was discovered on Friday near a swamp at Nakitutuli along the Mukono-Kayunga road in Nama Sub County. The body was found covered with dry grass and had cuts …
Read More »Life under Idi Amin
Thousands of recently discovered photographs document his reign ANALYSIS | Derek R. Peterson & Richard Vokes | In 2015, researchers working in the storeroom at the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation forced open the lock on an unremarkable filing cabinet. Inside were thousands of small wax envelopes, neatly arranged in rows, each …
Read More »Kampala city’s deadly floods
Why experts now want KCCA to cope with, not fight rain Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | For hundreds of thousands of Kampala residents, the onset of the rain season these days means suffering, losing property and even lives and this year’s rainy season has not been any different. There …
Read More »Chinese, Indian nationals die in Kampala city accident
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three Chinese and an Indian National have been killed in an accident along Golf Course in Kampala. Deputy Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire, said the driver of UBA 111E lost control and swerved off the main road down to the Golf Course …
Read More »Sh777 billion needed to control flooding in Kampala
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA needs sh777 billion to control floods in the city. The KCCA Acting Executive Director Engineer Andrew Kitaaka says that despite having a drainage master plan, the authority does not have money to carry out construction works for three main channels of …
Read More »Kampala is best EAC city
Quality of Living research place it ahead of Nairobi Kampala, Uganda | The Independent | Uganda’s capital Kampala has once again been ranked the best East African city to live in. It is the third time Kampala wins this accolade in as many years. The ranking is done based on …
Read More »Kenya, Tanzanian pilgrims clean up Namugongo
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Foreign Pilgrims from countries Kenya and Tanzania have taken up a task of cleaning up Namugongo, the site of the annual Uganda Martyrs Day Celebration. The shrine was by this morning covered up in heaps of garbage comprising plastic bottles, papers and polyethene bags, …
Read More »Uganda and Rwanda’s slippery slope
Why the current situation between Kampala and Kigali needs to be deescalated before it leads to disaster THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | The conflict between Uganda and Rwanda is escalating and, if not arrested, will most likely lead to war. Last week, Uganda claimed that Rwandan troops …
Read More »Court orders government to pay Lukwago
“I am a very happy man. Yes, the victory has come late but at least it has finally come,” Erias Lukwago said after the unanimous judgment by the Court of Appeal ordering government to pay the Lord Mayor Shs500m was read out. Kampala, Uganda | The Independent | The judgment …
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