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  Entebbe, Uganda  | AIRSPACE AFRICA | All is not well at Uganda airlines again, according to aviation website Airspace Africa . With the national carrier currently being led by its third CEO in just two years of the Uganda Airlines project,  board chairman Pereza Godfrey Ahabwe has written demanding yet another change. In …

Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has transferred more than 1,000 Congolese refugees to Kyangwali refugee settlement camp. The refugees had been settled at Bubukwanga transit centre in Bundibugyo district. In the last two months, more than 10,000 Congolese nationals entered the country through Ntoroko and Bundibugyo district following violence …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Gulu city security committee has ordered vendors to vacate the roadside over security threats and accidents. There are hundreds of roadside vendors operating along different roads in Gulu city. They are mainly congested along the Gulu-Kampala highway, Main street, around Stanbic bank, and Andrea Olal …

Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda National Bureau of Standards has commenced enforcement of quality standards against uncertified maize grain and maize flour. The enforcement started with the closure of more than 50 mills in parts of Luwero and Jinja among others. This follows a year-long quality sensitisation campaign which …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Muslim scholars have described as Islamaphobic, President Yoweri Museveni’s comments about last Saturday’s bombing at a pork joint in Komamboga, Kampala district. Addressing the country on Thursday about the Covid-19 pandemic and the security situation, Museveni appeared to suggest that those who attacked revelers at Komamboga …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Gender committee of Parliament has resolved to revert the management and supervision of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to the Ministry of Gender. The fund is a government agency responsible for the collection, investment and distribution of retirement funds from employees who are …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Emmanuel Gakyaro, the Masaka deputy city clerk, and Martin Kigozi, the city senior physical planner are on the spot over their alleged involvement in the creation of plots in road reserves. The Masaka city Roads Committee has unanimously resolved to formally petition the Inspector General of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Higher institutions of learning have been asked to develop guidelines ahead of next week’s reopening. Education institutions have been closed since June following a surge in Covid-19 cases. In September, President Museveni cleared universities and other tertiary institutions to reopen on November 1. The institutions have …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dolo has urged Christian lawyers to shun corruption and be ambassadors of justice and the rule of law. He says it is undeniable that there is corruption in the judiciary and wondered if Christian lawyers can be exonerated from the vice. Speaking …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Second Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Moses Ali, has announced government’s plan to rehabilitate and expand public secondary schools across the country, cognizant of the dilapidated structures in schools. Ali, also Deputy Leader of Government Business, said that the Ministry of Education and Sports has prepared …