Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has recommended that National Medical Stores-NMS should face competition with other players in the field. Legislators this Thursday afternoon approved parliament’s Public Accounts Committee- PAC, report carrying a recommendation that the monopoly of National Medical Stores be stopped. The report on the findings of …
Read More »KONY: ICC sentences Dominic Ongwen to 25 years in prison
The Hague, Netherlands | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Criminal Court (ICC) Trial Chamber IX has today sentenced former Kony Ugandan rebel commander Dominic Ongwen to a total period of imprisonment of 25 years as a joint sentence for the 61 crimes of which he was found guilty. A summary …
Read More »Uganda Cranes World Cup matches pushed to September
POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER
Matchday 1 June 5-8, 2021
Kenya Vs Uganda
Matchday 2 June 11-14
Uganda Vs Mali Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | World Soccer governing body FIFA has postponed Africa’s World Cup qualifying games, to give time to countries to restore the right playing …
IOC, Pfizer and BioNTech in massive Olympics vaccination drive
IOC welcomes Pfizer and BioNTech’s donation of vaccines to teams heading for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT | A massive plan to ensure all participants to the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 are vaccinated in the next two months has started. As …
Read More »Suluhu and Uhuru agree to do business
A joint team of experts will be set up to address the disjointed enforcement of cross-border Covid-19 containment protocols Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenya and Tanzania have agreed to eliminate barriers hindering the smooth flow of trade and people between the two East African nations. The decision was …
Read More »President Museveni hosts cabinet farewell luncheon
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has today hosted a farewell luncheon for Cabinet after their penultimate meeting of the 2016-2021 term of office. “On behalf of NRM, I thank you collectively and individually for serving your country for the last five years,” Museveni told his cabinet, …
Read More »Uganda Airlines: New details emerge
Entebbe, Uganda | AIRSPACE AFRICA .COM | Following a dramatic week in which senior executives and board members at Uganda airlines were forced to go on ‘leave’, details have emerged that highlight reasons for the government’s displeasure at numerous corporate governance failings, operational and management shortcomings and lack of strong leadership …
Read More »OLYMPICS: Kiprotich picked for Uganda marathon team
Uganda marathon team
Fred Musobo
Stephen Kiprotich
Felix Chemonges Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT, URN & XINHUA | Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) has selected Stephen Kiprotich as one of three marathoners to represent the country in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics that start July 23, 2021. With up …
World Press Freedom Day
Uganda marks it amid brutal attacks on journalists ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | On April 28 Teddy Nakaliga and Amon Kayanja, both reporters for separate TV stations hit the road in Kayunga Village, Wakiso District, to cover a demonstration by residents protesting a two-week power blackout. As Nakaliga narrated …
Read More »Kasaija’s tax burden
How to raise money from ideas that failed Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Finally its May, the month in which parliament as the Committee of Supply debates and passes the 2021/22 national budget. Unlike in recent years, the focus of debate has shifted from sector allocation to another …
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