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Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Bureau of Standards has today seized at least 6000 liters of crude alcohol from local distillers in Mbale city. The alcohol was impounded in the areas of Musoto village in Industrial division, Mbale city during an operation to crackdown substandard alcoholic products on …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbale city is operating without an approved budget, URN has learnt. This came to the fore last week in a meeting between Mbale City Council authorities and Peter Ogwang, the State Minister for Economic monitoring in the office of the President. During the meeting, Ogwang …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbale city leaders have introduced new measures of collecting revenue. In the previous financial year, the council suffered a shortfall of more than two billion Shillings. It collected 900 Million Shillings out of the projected 3.5 Billion Shillings. In the 2017/2018 financial year, only 2 Billion …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has promised to order a forensic audit to establish why Nabuyonga Rise and Mugisu Hill roads in Mbale city, built under the Uganda Support to Municipality Infrastructure Development (USMID) programme have developed defects only three years after being commissioned. She was meeting …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Vendors operating along Naboa road and Cathedral Avenue in Mbale city are bitter with Dot services over the slow progress of the road works. Mbale city is implementing the second phase of the Uganda Support to Municipality Infrastructural Development-USMID project. The contract was awarded to …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts and the Local Government committee have raised concerns over the criteria that was used by Mbale city authorities to select beneficiaries of the Covid-19 relief cash. The city authorities led by the City Town Clerk David Kyasanku, the …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An early morning accident in Mbale city has claimed the lives of four people and left three others nursing critical injuries. The accident occurred along Mbale-Tororo road adjacent to Mbale city bus park. According to eyewitnesses, the accident occurred after a speeding Fuso truck registration …

Mbale, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Mbale city has received a new batch of 1,000 solar security lights worth one billion shillings to install on four major city roads under Uganda support to municipal infrastructure development program USIMD. According to James Kutosi the public relation officer of Mbale city,  the first …