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. …
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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 …
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Nairobi, Kenya | DAILY NATION – Hilary Kimuyu | As Christians across the country celebrate Easter, Eliud Wekesa popularly known as ‘Yesu Wa Tongaren’ now says he will not die for the sins of humankind for the second time. Friday, Mr Wekesa, the leader of New Jerusalem sect, came …
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COMMENT | Olivia Nalubwama | “I think of you as the freest person I know…Then everyone you know is a slave.”This haunting line is from the Ayi Kwei Armah’s classic book, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, on the failure of post- independence African leaders. Enter Sam Mugumya. In 2014, …
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Adjumani, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It was a groundbreaking Monday at St Mary’s Asumputa Senior Secondary School in Adjumani District as senior one students were treated to a biology lesson conducted from Kitende Secondary School over 480 kilometres away. The two schools were linked seamlessly thanks to video conferencing …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Scientists have explained to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee that developing a vaccine against COVID-19 will take a longer than earlier expected, given the different processes involved. The scientists appeared before the committee alongside officials from the former Ministry of Science, Technology …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legislators from the opposition political parties have resolved to boycott President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s address to Members of Parliament today at Kololo Independence Grounds in Kampala. “He [President] will address the House on matters of national importance concerning the country and I urge you …
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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Four students were killed and 18 others injured after a truck plowed into a school computer laboratory in the central Uganda district of Gomba, the police said Wednesday. The accident happened at Kasaka Senior Secondary School Tuesday evening, said the police in a statement issued …
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MAGICAL KENYA OPEN – Select final results 1⃣ J Campillo 🇪🇸 266 (-18) 2⃣ M Kawamura 🇯🇵268 (-16) 6⃣5⃣ M Kibugu 🇰🇪 283 (-1) 7⃣8⃣ W Besseling 🇳🇱 289 (+5) ✳ Ronald Rugumayo 🇺🇬 (hole-in-1 day 1) Nairobi, Kenya | CAPITALFM.CO.KE | “I just have one word to describe it: …
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Families getting out of poverty is a good first step to supporting women Kiruhura, Uganda | President Yoweri Museveni has showcased the development and growth of Kiruhura district as one that the rest of the country can learn from to leapfrog to sufficient household income through commercial agriculture. At the International …
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