Hoima, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Security Minister Lt Gen. Henry Tumukunde has apologised to mourners at Suzan Magara’s funeral for the government’s failure to rescue her after she was was kidnapped in Kampala on February 7, 2018. Suzan Magara, a cashier with at Bwendero Dairy Farm (BDF), was murdered and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Exactly a year after his release from Luzira, the former director of Economic Monitoring at the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) Teddy Ssezi Cheeye is dead. According to the police, he was knocked dead March 1 by a speeding boda boda (motor cycle) as he crossed …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Two suspected armed robbers were Thursday shot dead after a reported attempted robbery in Bweyogerere, Police has said. Police confirmed they had shot the two men who they said attacked and attempted to slice the throat of a business woman identified as Agaba Josephine Rwabyona in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The top stories in this week’s The Independent. COVER STORY Loans saga: Matia Kasaija and his team at the Finance Ministry find themselves in a very tight corner as they look for Shs29.2 trillion to finance a new budget BUSINESS Inside the SGS contract saga: …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AFP | Uganda has stepped up investigations into recent corruption allegations by indicting the Commissioner for Refugees in the Office of the Prime Minister Apollo Kazungu. Simon Gerald Menhya has been appointed acting commissioner. Hillary Onek, Minister of disaster preparedness and refugees and Musa Ecweru, …
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Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Dianne Calvi is the CEO of Village Enterprise with operations in Uganda and Kenya. She spoke to Isaac Khisa about the new innovations in fighting poverty in rural areas. What is your management style as the CEO? I am an informal manager who believes that …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | John Fitzgerald Magara has narrated the ordeal the family went through in the search for their daughter Suzan Magara, who was found dead on Tuesday. “We’ve had difficult days from the 7th of February when we started looking for Susan,” he told mourners at the requiem …
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Kampala, Uganda | AGNES NANTABA | Malaika Nnyanzi is a fast rising radio and TV personality in Uganda with a growing audience. She co-hosts the morning show ‘D mighty breakfast’ with Brian Mulondo on KFM. She is also an MC for events and an actress who has featured in several films …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jambojet, a low-cost subsidiary of Kenya Airways, plans to buy four aircrafts in the next 18 months to support its local and regional expansions. The airline’s CEO Willem Hondius said during the carrier’s maiden international flight to Entebbe on Feb 15 that they expect …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development Janat Mukwaya has called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to visit Uganda and study youth and women programmes that can be adopted by member states. Speaking at the 4th Session of the Islamic Conference of …
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