Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr Charles Ayume has floored Minister of State for Investment, Evelyn Anite in a heavily contested NRM party primary poll in Koboko “Thank you for believing in me and the legacy of my father. You have spoken loud and clear. I am humbled by …
Read More »Hundreds of Kampala’s COVID patients self-isolating at home
✳ Uganda confirmed cases 3,353 ✳ Deaths 35 ✳ Recoveries 1,564 Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | Over 467 of the 954 people who have in the last one month tested positive in Kampala have not yet been evacuated to treatment in isolation facilities, the Ministry of Health (MOH) revealed on …
Read More »D-DAY: Make or break in NRM Primaries
Sembabule, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Spokesman Ofwono Opondo has called for calm as fears of violence rose on the eve of Friday’s National Resistance Movement NRM party primaries. “My appeal to NRM members is that shame the naysayers by conducting free and fair elections,” he said hours to …
Read More »MUSEVENI: I am a Musiita, not a Munyarwanda
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has responded to social media posts alleging he is a Munyarwanda, saying not only is it not true, but those peddling the lies undermine the NRM’s Pan-African vision. In his missive, a response to comments to his online postings last …
Read More »Museveni directs on NRM party register
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The already hotly contested National Resistance Movement-NRM national party primaries took another twist two days to the polls, when President Yoweri Museveni directed that all members with cards and not on the register be allowed to vote. Museveni said in his September 2 …
Read More »MOH starts evacuating COVID-19 patients to Namboole stadium
Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA & JUDITH KUKUNDA | The Ministry of Health today starts admitting positive COVID-19 patients at a new treatment facility at Mandela National Stadium, Namboole on the outskirts of the city. Col. Edith Nakalema, who heads the statehouse anti-corruption unit confirmed to journalists last evening that she had …
Read More »FDC struggles without Besigye
Pundits offer party ideas on 2021 elections and Besigye’s Plan B Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s biggest opposition party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) will have a weak candidate on the presidency ballot in 2021, according to pundits who have spoken to The Independent. The comments followed party …
Read More »Uganda has fastest COVID rate in Africa
Fear rising of another lockdown COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has reported the highest percentage increase in the new coronavirus disease (COVID 19) in Africa, according to the Health Emergency Information and Risk Assessment report of the World Health Organisation (WHO) released on Aug.26. It is the second …
Read More »Two tourists feared dead at Kiira Dam in Jinja
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two tourists are feared dead after their boat was carried by the river Nile current towards Kiira Power station, whose spillways were open to release excess water. ESKOM confirmed the Sunday evening incident, saying a family of four and a lone boater who tried …
Read More »Arsenal take Community Shield
✳ Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1 (Arsenal win 5-4 pen) London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | Last season’s FA Cup winners Arsenal beat reigning Premier League champions Liverpool on penalties in the Community Shield on a day when 13 clubs stepped up their preparations for the new season. With exactly two weeks to go until …
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