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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Drivers are seeking alternative routes through the villages today when floods cut off Kampala-Masaka highway in central Uganda after River Katonga burst its banks. There were increasing fears that the floods will also affect key bridges at Lwera on the same road. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Players in oil and gas have pleaded with the countries in the West not to starve Uganda and Africa of financing needed to get those resources out of the ground. The call has been sounded by the Energy and Mineral Development Minister, Ruth Nankabirwa, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Joint security forces have apprehended several suspected terrorists in Nabweru, North Ward, Nansana Municipality, Wakiso District following a report of a bomb threat in the area. Our reporters arrived at the scene to find numerous security personnel, including members of various forces and the …

Dauda Kavuma’s Ghetto Kids and the golden buzzer COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | In 2009, while working as a primary school teacher on a Shs60,000 (Approx. US$16) monthly salary, Dauda Kavuma says he took in three children aged about 10 years who were from deprived backgrounds. He was 30 years …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has reconsidered the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 and passed it with amendments to the 4 clauses that President Yoweri Museveni objected to. Despite the changes, the new bill retains most of the measures adopted in March. Those include the death penalty for certain same-sex acts …

How mismatch in the regional force’s objectives and expectations of the Congolese government may render the failure of peace mission COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | Maj. Gen. Jeff Nyagah, the Kenyan Commander of the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) has abruptly returned to Nairobi five months after landing in …

Namutumba, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  President Yoweri Museveni has re-emphasised the importance of creating more jobs to get Ugandans out of unemploment, instead of focussing on the remuneration of those already in work. “As we celebrate this Labour day, we should focus more on how to create enough jobs …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has returned to Parliament the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 for reconsideration. In a letter dated 25 April addressed to Speaker Anita Among, which was read to Members of Parliament during a plenary sitting on Wednesday by the Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa, …

FUFA President Magogo urges government to cancel the contracts of the contractors and supervisors and immediately procure experienced service providers in stadium construction, even if it means being obtained from outside Uganda. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Federation of Uganda’s Football Association (FUFA) has announced that the Uganda Cranes …

Is this the end of the Church of England’s influence in Africa? COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | The Anglican Church is in disarray following a decision reached by hundreds of conservative Anglican Church leaders during a conference held April 17-21 in Kigali, Rwanda. The fourth Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON …