Tag Archives: Uganda

  THIS WEEK: Shs 72trillion needed for investment in Uganda’s oil Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda will need about Shs72 trillion for investment in its development phase after transitioning from exploration. Ernest Rubondo, the executive director of Petroleum Authority of Uganda said the investment is expected to spur jobs, …

THIS WEEK: Exam leak rocks UNEB Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Examinations Board is engulfed in scandal as it tries to contain leaking of exams in the ongoing Uganda Certificate of Examinations (UCE). Six people have been arrested so far and a headmaster is reportedly on the run …

THIS WEEK: Gov’t finalizes plan to demolish Kasokoso Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Once again there is tension among residents of Kasokoso slum in Nakawa Division after government announced that it has concluded designs and feasibility to redevelop the housing estate into a satellite city. The National Housing and Construction …

THIS WEEK: Shoprite to anchor Arena Mall in Nsambya Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Arena Mall, a 14,000-square meter shopping centre development located in Nsambya, will be anchored by Shoprite, Africa’s biggest supermarket chain. Shoprite’s expansion in Uganda ties in with the news of two more stores to be …

International and Local Dancers to face-off at Break-Fast Jam’s 7th Annual Hiphop Battles Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Danish dancer SoonEnough and Northern Irish DJ Snuff are among the international stars that are booked to headline the 7th annual Break-Fast Jam Finals, to be held at YMCA in Wandegeya, …

Kampala, Uganda | MOFA |  Uganda has formally accepted a request from Hungary to open a Diplomatic Mission at the level of Charge D’Affaires in Kampala in the near future. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Sam Kutesa confirmed the new relationship with Hungary when he received the visiting Deputy Minister for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has written a letter to President Yoweri Museveni on the “Invasion of Parliament” on September 27. (A copy of the reported letter below) Fighting ensued September 27 as plain-clothes security operatives stormed Uganda’s parliament to help throw out suspended but defiant …

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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT COVER STORY Kayihura in trouble: Behind arrest of top cops, the Rwanda twist. THE LAST WORD Crisis of the state in Uganda: How foreign interests have captured our politics thereby turning our people from citizens to …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Businessman Frank Gashumba and brother Innocent Kasumba Thursday petitioned Nakawa Chief Magistrate Court seeking to be released from custody at a government facility, the special investigation unit Kireka, on grounds that his continued detention is unconstitutional, illegal and unlawful. Through their lawyers from Dennis Nyombi …