Nakapiripirit, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is a reduction diarrhoea cases across Karamoja region due to the positive response by the community to hand washing against the coronavirus pandemic, health officials have revealed. Dr. John Anguzu, the Nakapiripirit District Health Director, says the coronavirus pandemic broke out in the country …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has revealed that government has secured UGX. 30 billion for cattle compensation in Acholi, Lango and Teso sub regions. Museveni, who is also the NRM Presidential candidate said that each of the three sub regions will receive UGX. 10 billion to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Elders and cultural leaders in the nine districts that constitute the Karamoja region in the north eastern Uganda have demanded to have a meeting with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni over land grabbing. The elders say they would like President Museveni to explain to them why …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the 2021 general elections draw close the campaigners of the National Resistance Movement-NRM, presidential candidate, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni must be strategizing to overcome his perennial defeat in Gulu district. Museveni has never won any election in Gulu district since 1996. In 1996, Paul Kawanga …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | George Kule was startled when a bunch of strange—journalists—arrived at his home around midday sometime early November asking why people in his village never voted the National Resistance Movement-NRM presidential candidate, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in 2016 presidential election. Kule is the LCI chairman of …
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Bwerenga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Half of the votes cast at Bwerenga (N-Z) Radio polling station in Kisubi Parish, Busiro South County in Wakiso District in the 2016 presidential elections were invalid. According to the EC register, there were 734 registered voters at Bwerenga (N-Z) Radio polling station. In the …
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Mpigi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 36 essential public servants in Mpigi district have tested positive for COVID-19 in a space of two weeks. The Mpigi Chief Administrative Officer, Moses Kanyarutokye disclosed this in a December 21st, 2020 memo to heads of department, administrative secretaries and security officers. “Mpigi …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Independent Presidential Candidate Henry Tumukunde has criticised the elites who don’t want to participate in voting their leaders, saying they will not enjoy their lifestyles when this country collapses. He says the elite have a wrong mindset that it is not honorable for them to …
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Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of National Resistance Movement-NRM party chairpersons in Kitgum district have stormed out of a meeting over lack of transport refund. The 357 Sub County, Parish and village chairpersons had assembled at MSGR Antonio Vigna Secondary School in Kitgum Municipality on Thursday for the launch …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Haruna Kyeyune Kasolo, the minister of state for Microfinance has denied accusations of holding a mass rally in Kyotera County where he is seeking to retain his parliamentary in violation of the Standard Operating Procedures-SOPs to stop the spread of COVID-19. He told journalists at …
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