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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) in partnership with Mastercard Foundation has awarded UGX5.9 billion as seed funding to an additional 78 Ugandan small and growing businesses through their Hi-innovator Program. This brings the total of businesses funded to 110 since the Hi-Innovator Programme …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The European Commission in Uganda, is set to fully address the matter of the European union parliament resolution on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project, at that upcoming Uganda-EU business summit later this month. Due to environmental and human rights issues, the European …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Attorney General has asked the High Court in Kampala to dismiss the case in which a group of elderly people sued the government on allegations of excluding them from accessing Social Assistance Grants Empowerment and Public health services due to lack of national …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | A day after a controversial tweet angered Kenyans, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has been replaced as UPDF Commander land forces by Maj Gen Kayanja Muhanga. The tweet, that was a joke the Kenyans did not take lightly,  indicated the Uganda army’s readiness to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Joseph Kabuleta, one of the eleven presidential candidates who participated in the January 2021 general elections, has unveiled a party called the National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED). The party was first registered on 7th October 2005 under the name People’s United Movement Party-PUM. Kabuleta …

Apac, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three parents in Apac district are in police custody for torturing their children over food. The suspects are Kenneth Okello, Nelson Ogwang, and his wife Collin Aol. Kenneth Okello, a resident of Ajodoko ‘B’ cell, Alworoceng parish is accused of burning his six-year-old son, …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police posts and sub-county headquarters operating on the premises of primary societies under Bugisu Cooperative Union-BCU face eviction. Nathan Nandala Mafabi, the BCU Board Chairperson, says that they have resolved to evict the police posts and sub-county headquarters because they operate on the premises free …

In Uganda two of every three people don’t have a decent house and currently, the country is said to be faced with a housing deficit of approximately 2.4 million housing units Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ministry for lands housing and urban development with Habitat for Humanity are …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The directorate of Criminal Investigations has summoned Aringa South Member of Parliament, Odria Yorke Alioni, to appear before its detectives tomorrow -Tuesday over punching the Officer-In-charge of Parliament Security Assistant Superintendent of Police –ASP Alex Senga. MP Odria was captured on cameras punching ASP …

Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four family members in Angobo Village in Katakwi Sub County in Katakwi district are under surveillance following the death of a family member because of the suspected Ebola virus. This follows the death of a 24-year- an old Rose Apuwatum at Katakwi General Hospital …