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Gen. Katumba Attack: rights defenders demand incident report into killing of suspects Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Human rights defenders have tasked investigators of the June 1st, 2021 attempted assassination of Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala to produce a report detailing how security gunned down two prime suspects. Four assailants riding …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Budaka District COVID-19 Taskforce has raised a red flag over reports that relatives of COVID-19 victims are exhuming their bodies at night to accord them “befitting burials”. Local leaders in Budaka town council and Kachomo Sub County claim that some residents exhume the bodies …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has cautioned COVID-19 testing facilities about the use of antigen COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic Kits (RDTs) to screen asymptomatic patients. According to the health ministry, the RDTs should be used to test persons who have symptoms of COVID-19 because they have …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 600 residents of Kasanje village in Kyesiiga sub-county in Masaka village are fidgeting after receiving eviction notices from the land they have occupied for over 50 years. The more than 324 acres of land is home to over 200 families and their …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Government Chief Whip Thomas Tayebwa has said that Government’s position is that Parliament remains closed despite calls by Members to have it open. Several members of Parliament including the National Resistance Movement MPs have said the house needs to be recalled and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The former Principal Accountant in the Ministry of Public Service Christopher Obey has died. According to the Uganda Prisons Spokesperson Frank Baine, Obey passed away from the Intensive Care Unit at Mulago Hospital where he was rushed on Thursday. “Christopher Obey has gone to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Michael Kabaziguruka, the former MP for Nakawa Division has welcomed the decision by the Constitutional Court that held that the General Court Martial has no power to try civilians. Speaking to Uganda Radio Network, Kabaziguruka who in 2016 challenged the constitutionality of the General Court …

Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The planned operationalization of the Luwero High Court has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Luwero High Court is one of the 20 Courts that were designated in 2016 under the Judicature Statutory Instrument No. 55 of 2016. However, to date, the court had failed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has said that burial teams are not necessary when burying people who have succumbed to COVID-19. According to the health ministry officials, family members do not need to pay for burial teams because the bodies of the deceased are disinfected …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Scientists have said it is too early for them to tell when Uganda will soon have its own COVID-19 vaccine, contradicting President Yoweri Museveni’s revelations earlier that Uganda will have its own vaccine soon. While speaking at the opening of the World Health Summit, Museveni …