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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda needs to incorporate guiding principles on business and human rights into the national investment regulatory frameworks to strike balance between the investor rights and the state, according to Jane Nalunga, the Executive Director at the Southern and Eastern African Trade Institute –SEATINI Uganda. Nalunga, who …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of nurses deployed at the KCCA primary school COVID-19 vaccination center in Kamwokya have shunned the exercise protesting non-payment of their allowances. The nurses are entitled to a daily allowance of Shillings 5000, which is meant to facilitate their movement. However, the nurses have …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has commended religious leaders for shunning radicalism, prioritizing a message of transforming society and not engaging in unnecessary wars. Museveni said that the present-day religious leaders are not like their predecessors who got disoriented and emphasized religious differences rather than unity in diversity. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Didas Mpagi, the former headteacher of Real Infant Primary School in Wakiso district has earned himself a life sentence for sodomizing six boys in his school. He was convicted by Justice David Wangututsi of the International Crimes Division who found him guilty of six counts of …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Power utility company Umeme has supported SOS Children’s Village with an assortment of scholastic materials including textbooks, laptop computers, exercise books and homecare utensils worth Shs44.5 million. The Corporate Social Responsibility initiative was aimed at giving back to the communities with in which the company operates …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The family of the late Major General Ali Bamuze has made a passionate plea to president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni over unfulfilled pledges he made in 2015 following the death of their father. At the time of his death, Major General Ali Bamuze was working with Operation …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Emmanuel Ayeni, a teacher at Brain Trust primary in Jinja district is on the spot for eloping with his former primary seven pupil. Trouble for the teacher started when residents noticed Ayeni living with the 14 year old girl in the staff quarters and tipped off …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 20 luxurious vehicles valued at more than 3.7 billion Shillings have been impounded by the Uganda National Central Bureau also known as Interpol Uganda. The vehicles were reportedly stolen from the United Kingdom, Japan and the Republic of South Africa. The vehicles include four …

Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The continued operation of bars and entertainment centres threaten the success so far registered in controlling the spread of Covid-19 across Luwero. Luwero District Health Officer Dr Innocent Nkonwa says that the district has for the third week recorded no new Covid-19 infections, a trend attributed …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Court has dismissed a petition by Alfred Namaasa against his rival and Mbale district LCV chairperson, Muhammad Mafabi. Namaasa garnered 15,249 votes against 17,887 votes polled by Mafabi in the January 2021 general elections. He rejected the poll results and petitioned the high court accusing Mafabi …