Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Embattled Mulago National Referral Hospital Executive Director, Dr. Baterena Byarugaba has handed over office to deputy director Dr. Rosemary Byanyima, after being interdicted by Health Ministry Permanent Secretary Dr Diana Atwine last week. Byarugaba was arrested last week after investigations by the Health Monitoring Unit linked …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hoima District Security Committee has banned the grazing of animals and cultivation on the land earmarked for the oil refinery in Kabaale parish, Kabaale sub-county. In 2012, the government acquired 29 square kilometres of land in Kabaale parish for the construction of the oil refinery. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | District Education Officers and headteachers have welcomed the ongoing efforts by the Ministry of Education to decentralize secondary education. They argue that the move will improve service delivery in the sub-sector. Decentralization is the transfer of certain decision-making power and responsibilities from the central government …
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Kibaale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A primary school teacher in Kibaale district is in police custody for defilement. Geoffrey Kirungi, who is attached to Bugwara Primary school in Kicucura sub county, Kagadi district, is accused of defiling and impregnating a 15 year old pupil in primary seven at Devine Nursery …
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Agago, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Agago and Kitgum District Security Committees have recruited arrow boys to guard the locals and their animals against the increasing Karamojong attacks. In the past months, residents and local leaders in both districts have been requesting the government to revive and arm vigilante groups …
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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lira city is looking for Shillings 400million to fix 141 non-functional solar street lights. They are part of the 292 solar streets lights that were installed under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID), a World Bank-funded program which saw the construction of several …
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Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women in Bulembia division, Kasese district have asked the Ministry of Health to elevate Kilembe health centre II to a health center III. The demand comes at a time when the facility receives an overwhelming number of patients seeking services. The facility that has only …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Lotisan sub county, Moroto district are struggling to access water. This has forced some of the residents to get water for drinking and domestic use from unprotected sources. Monica Acan, a resident says that the crisis is not only exposing them to diseases …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Victims of the Lords Resistance Army-LRA insurgency in West Nile have resolved to revive the case in which they are demanding compensation from the government over losses incurred during the conflict. Between 1993 and 1996, hundreds of people from Arua and other districts in West …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The proposed construction of a multi-purpose sports facility by the International Boxing Association-AIBA has stalled due to the delayed response by the Uganda Land Commission to allocate land to the Uganda Boxing Federation, URN has learnt. The Federation president Moses Muhangi, says that the Commission is …
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