Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The relocation of rejected African refugees from Israel to Uganda is a normal process, according to Hillary Onek, the Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees. Addressing the media in Kampala, Onek said the move by Uganda to receive 500 Eritrean and Sudanese refugees rejected …
Read More »Kaweesi Killing: Court gives prosecution ultimatum to conclude investigations
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Nakawa Chief Magistrate’s Court has given prosecution one month’s ultimatum to conclude investigations into the killing of former Police Spokesman, Andrew Felix Kaweesi or Court dismisses the case. Kaweesi was gunned down together with his driver Godfrey Mambewa and bodyguard, Kenneth Erau on …
Read More »How police ICT director was pushed into resignation
kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Tuesday this week, the Inspector General of Police-IGP Okoth Ochola appointed Felix Baryamwisaki, the Director Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) in Uganda Police Force. Baryamwisaki took over from Amos Ngabirano whose contract expired on March 20th, 2018. Prior to the expiry of his contract, …
Read More »Insurance companies to share oil sector risks, benefits
Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | As Uganda makes steps towards getting first oil in 2020, insurance companies are working on mechanisms of partnering to share risks and benefits that will manifest. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a press conference on the upcoming oil and gas convention to be …
Read More »7,000 ‘Ghosts’ found in Nakivale refugee settlement – Onek
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ongoing verification of refugees and asylum seekers has unearthed 7,000 ghosts in Nakivale refugee settlement in western Uganda. According to the Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Hillary Onek, of the figure of 16,000 refugees and asylum seekers that some unscrupulous government officials …
Read More »World Bank: African Economic growth at 3.1% in 2018
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Bank projects Sub-Saharan Africa to garner an economic growth of 3.1 percent in 2018, and increase of over one percent from 2017. Recent data in the Africa Economic Update released Wednesday afternoon point to a moderate strengthening of economic growth in early 2018. …
Read More »UPDF to retrain crime preventers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have tasked the army to explain the legal basis and sustainability of crime preventers in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). The MPs sitting on the Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs were on Tuesday interfacing with officials from the Ministry …
Read More »Six self-kidnap cases reported in one month
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Police Force is grappling with increased cases of self-kidnap across the country, especially among students and youths. In the last one month, more than 20 cases of kidnap have been reported with six of these discovered to have been self-kidnaps. According to …
Read More »Gulu man charged with faking own kidnap
Peter Elap, a boda boda rider in Gulu is in trouble for faking his own kidnap to con his boss Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have slapped Elap with the charges of demanding property with menace and giving false information to a person employed in public service contrary to …
Read More »Law on property sharing in cohabiting couples in final stages
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A bill that will guide how property owned by cohabiting couples can be shared, upon separation, is now in its final stages. The draft was developed out of the controversial clauses which were deleted from the marriage and divorce bill, according to Vastina Rukimirana …
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