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But how accurate is that poll? Kampala, Uganda | HABATI MUBATSI | As expected ahead of the 2021 general elections, political polling is back. Research World International (RWI), which is Uganda’s main polling firm, has released its latest survey of the population on a range of issues economic and social …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justine Kasule Lumumba, the Secretary General of the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party has denied media reports that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the national chairman of the party asked his long time serving vice chairman Haj Moses Kigongo to remain unopposed. Kigongo is facing …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Poll says Museveni wouldn’t win election: But how accurate is that poll? THE LAST WORD NUP’s biggest dilemma: Why Bobi Wine’s new party will find it even more difficult to defeat Museveni in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has called for a meeting of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Central Executive Committee (CEC) scheduled for to take place tomorrow. The meeting will discuss the upcoming extraordinary meeting of the National Conference which will be held on August 18. …

Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mountains of the Moon University Transition Task Force-TTF will be ready to hand over its report by January 2021. The task force is mandated with overseeing the transition of the university from a private to a public institution. The task force that was …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has lashed out at Ugandans that are focused on promoting sectarianism, saying some have tried to cast the NRM as a system monopolized by people from western Uganda. “Here in the Presidency, I am quite comfortable without many Banyankore, or, indeed, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The executive director at Microfinance Support Centre, John Peter Mujuni has said that each teachers’ SACCO will directly get its money. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni pledged to avail 2 billion shillings to the revolving fund from which teachers could get loans to create side …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The creation of various anti-corruption agencies has fueled confusion instead of helping to end the vice, President Yoweri Museveni has revealed. He disclosed this in a televised address from Entebbe State House on Wednesday afternoon. Museveni said government agencies have been infiltrated by bad …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wakiso district has received 2.4million face masks from government for free distribution to residents as part of the Covid-19 preventive measures. The mask distribution exercise was officially launched by Wakiso Resident District Commissioner, Rose Kirabira at the district headquarters on Wednesday. She revealed that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament want some sectors of the economy still under lockdown to re-open. They argue that the sectors are prepared to meet the standard operating procedures and adhere to the COVID-19 guidelines. Ever since the economy was locked in March 2020, some sectors …