Facilities have lost more than $320m since March 2020 due to the effects of pandemic Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Hotels in Uganda are operating in red since they resumed operations, but operators are optimistic that business will return to normalcy soon. The COVID-19 outbreak in the country in …
Read More »Pearl Magic Prime launches on DStv Channel 148
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MultiChoice Uganda announced this morning that Pearl Magic is expanding and has added a new channel, Pearl Magic Prime to its stable. The channel went live today, February 8, 2021. Pearl Magic Prime is a channel on DStv that’s is owned by the …
Read More »South Africa netballers invite Uganda She Cranes to open season
📌 #SPARChallenge March 24-31 🇿🇦 SPAR Proteas 🇿🇦 SA President’s XII 🇿🇦 SPAR Baby Proteas 🇺🇬 Uganda’s She Cranes 🇳🇦 Namibia (TBC) Johannesburg, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT | Following the relaxation of lockdown level three restrictions, Netball South Africa has today announced that netball activities will resume effective from Monday 08th February …
Read More »Behind DGF’s suspension
How the space of the civil societies has been shrinking Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | On Feb, 03 the country woke up to the news that had President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ordered the Ministry of Finance to suspend all activities of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) for financing subversive …
Read More »More learners allowed back to school in March
Why not all of them, parents ask Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | How to take back Uganda’s 15 million learners back to school safely amidst a rampaging COVID-19 pandemic? That continues to be a sensitive subject for the government, parents, learners and health experts. Almost one year on since …
Read More »Eastern Uganda dominates legislator seats in Parliament
🔴 Eastern 144 🔴 Western 135 🔴 Northern 127 🔴 Central 105 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eastern Uganda has more Members of Parliament compared to the other regions. The current composition of Parliament gives the eastern region a total of 144 legislators followed by the western region which has …
Read More »Dominic Ongwen guilty, says ICC
He was not a puppet on a string, judges rule | THE INDEPENDENT | On Feb.04, the International Criminal Court (ICC) found Dominic Ongwen guilty for a total of 61 comprising crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed in northern Uganda. Ongwen was found guilty for attacks against the civilian …
Read More »Africa’s democratic dilemma
How the Western world has decided our future for us and it seeks to impose it on us THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | President Yoweri Museveni’s suspension of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) has caused uproar. This has been a big programme by Uganda’s “development partners” aimed …
Read More »Court can’t reverse Museveni election win
So why did Bobi Wine go there? Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Feb.01 former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the 2021 election results that declared the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni winner. In the petition, Bobi Wine who ran …
Read More »Rwanda edges Uganda in race for top African Union Commission job
📌 February 6 -7, 2021 – 34th AU SUMMIT & AUC elections Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa, the deputy governor of the national bank of Rwanda, has been elected Vice Chairperson of the African Union Commission. Nsanzabaganwa,50, got 42 votes in the final round of voting today from …
Read More »