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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Vincent Emmy Mubago has directed Post Bank Uganda, Lira branch to produce the financial statement of Linda Agnes Auma, the Lira District Woman MP within three days. The directive stems from a petition by Bonny Aliro challenging Auma’s election as Lira Woman Member …

Kisoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kisoro District Veterinary department has banned the movement of pigs and their products following an outbreak of the highly contagious African swine fever. Hebert Bubasha, the Kisoro District Veterinary Officer says that the disease has so far been confirmed in Murora, Kanaba, Kirundo and Bukimbiri …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dealers in imported garments have got some reprieve, after the Minister for Finance, Planning and Economic Development Matia Kasaija announced a waiver of some tax on the goods. In the budget for the financial year 2021/2022 read last month, the minister introduced an import duty …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A suspected Congolese rebel leader who escaped from Aruu prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC has been handed over to the Congolese authorities. Justin Olea, 25, escaped from prison after he was arrested for allegedly leading a rebel group in Eastern DRC and stealing …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum municipal council officials have called for the degazettement of the defunct Kitgum airfield in Pandwong division. Richard Ojara Okwera, the mayor of Kitgum municipal council says that the airfield has been redundant and non-functional for the past 20 years. According to Ojara, the airfield …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala has run out of COVID-19 vaccines. Uganda Radio Network visited some vaccination sites such as the Kampala Capital City Clinic, Kiswa health center III, Bukoto heath center, Naguru General Hospital and Kisenyi and found no queues of people waiting for vaccines. Charles Lweno, a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makindye Chief Magistrates Court has remanded a renown bailiff Moses Kirunda to Kitalya prison over the murder of a city businessman Magid Mugwanya. Kirunda, who last year demolished St Peters Church Ndeeba appeared before the Makindye Chief Magistrate Anne Sarah Basemera on Tuesday for the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jackeline Birungi, the first petitioner in the case challenging the victory of Idah Erios Nantaba as Kayunga Woman Member of Parliament found a hard time defending accusations against her rival for using forged academic qualifications. In her petition, Birungi who ran as an independent accused …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala City Traders Association-KACITA has given the government a two-week ultimatum to harmonize the import duty tax on clothes or they close their shops come September 1, 2021. The traders are dissatisfied with the new tax policy which pushed the import duty tax on …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ministry of Health has declared polio a public health emergency after registering two positive cases from Bugolobi and Lubigi sentinel environmental surveillance sites. The new cases come just a year after the World Health Organization-WHO declared Uganda and the entire Africa wild polio free in …