Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Blood Transfusion Services (UBTS) has raised concern over decreasing blood stocks which experts are now attributing to a high number of road traffic accidents and a surge in malaria. Samuel Davis Wante, the Blood Collection Clinical Team lead at the Nakasero Blood Bank …
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Develop a mindset change for personal development, Minister Oboth Oboth tells constituents Tororo, Uganda | JACKSON OBOTH | The Minister of State for Defence who is also Member of Parliament for West Budama Central Jacob Markson Oboth Oboth has assured his constituents and the people of Tororo that government is …
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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masaka Catholic Diocese has started a fundraising drive for a major facelift of Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral at Kitovu, Nyendo-Mukungwe Division, Masaka City. The Right Reverend Severus Jjumba, the Bishop of Masaka Diocese while launching the fundraising campaign on Friday said that they found …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The European Union has provided 5.9 Billion Shillings to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees-UNHCR to support Congolese refugees living in Uganda. In a joint statement released on Friday by the European Union Humanitarian aid department, the funds will facilitate UNHCR to support the …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Arua Diocese is seeking 1 Billion Shillings for constructing a retirement home for priests. The proposed diocesan retirement home which will also serve as a nursing home for the elderly and sick priests will be located in St. Peter and Paul Minor Seminary in Ayivu …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has ordered Haruna Sentongo, a brother to Ham Kiggundu to pay Orient Bank more than 10 billion Shillings accrued from loans advanced to him. In a judgment issued by Commercial Division judge Richard Wejuli Wabwire, the court found that indeed …
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Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It is a very quiet and somber mood at St Paul’s National Major Seminary Kinyamasika in Fort Portal Tourism City since Friday afternoon after the religious institution had received news of the death of the Vice Rector Fr. Francis Lubanga. Although the students and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of revelers have thronged Lubiri Grounds to attend the end of year party commonly known as ‘Enkuka Yo’Mwaka. The annual event was last celebrated in 2019. In 2020 and last year, the show was suspended following the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. When URN …
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Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Seeta in Mukono Municipality are investigating the robbery of Shillings 50 million from mobile money operators at gunpoint on Thursday night. The two mobile money operators, Racheal Babirye and Emmanuel Ssebayiga say that two men armed with an AK 47 intercepted them at …
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Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The King of Tooro Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV has tasked parents to ensure that they teach their children cultural norms and values in order to preserve the Tooro culture for future generations. Omukama Oyo was speaking at the Annual General Meeting …
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