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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | General Katumba Wamala and his daughter Brenda Wamala Nantogo 27, were shot today while on their way to a vigil in Najjanankumbi. Gunmen Tuesday morning intercepted General Katumba, who was in his vehicle registration number H4DF 2138 along Kisaasi-Kisota road, and sprayed it with …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President and Commander in Chief Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has wished General Katumba Wamala quick recovery, describing his assailants as ‘ pigs who do not value life’. He said he had also wished that the bodyguard shot to kill the assailants, not just in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fresh details emerging from the scene where assassins sprayed the vehicle of General Katumba Wamala with bullets this morning show that the gunmen also shot an unidentified person in a nearby storied building. Isaac Kawonawo, the Wakiso Deputy Resident District Commissioner in Charge of …

🔴 Former army Commander Gen Katumba survives assassination attempt, daughter and driver dead Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Former army commander Gen Katumba Wamala has survived an assassination attempt, after he was shot in Kampala in a street raid that has left his daughter and driver dead. He …

  🔴 Gen Katumba survives assassination attempt, daughter and driver dead Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Former army commander Gen Katumba Wamala has been shot in Kampala, and has been rushed to hospital. National media reporting that four assailants riding on motorbikes, shot at him along Kisota Road in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Japan has extended an emergency aid grant worth $1,640,442 (over sh5.8 billion) to Uganda to boost the country’s COVID-19 response The grant is supposed to help the country procure cold chain equipment for storage and transportation of covid-19 vaccines in the country. The funds …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Vice Chancellor of Kyambogo University has appealed to the Government to reopen the COVID-19 management facility at Mandela National stadium Namboole for isolation and management of  students who test positive. Addressing the media about the COVID-19 situation in Kyambogo University on Monday, …

Grabbing gavel from Kadaga was the easier part Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Until recently, it would have been impossible to imagine Omoro County MP Jacob Oulanyah sitting with maverick Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake to discuss national issues. But now they must, after Oulanyah, who has been deputy …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has urged Ugandans who do not have ‘urgent issues’ that require them to travel to Kampala, to stay away from the country’s capital and the neighbouring Wakiso district for a while. He made the appeal in his televised national address …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni is expected to outline new measures to contain what is said to be a second COVID-19 wave that has hit the country. His address come days after the Ministry of Health sent out an alert warning of increasing admissions, deaths and …