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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Opposition political parties under the Inter-party Organization for Dialogue-IPOD have asked the government to implement resolutions that were passed by the IPOD summit. The call was made on Tuesday at Mestil Hotel in Kampala where IPOD member parties converged to welcome a new member-the People’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There are up to 100,000 undocumented refugees in Kampala city, the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has revealed. He was launching a report by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), on rural-urban migration. According to Lukwago, Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA discovered the huge number of undocumented refugees while …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has been urged to allow private schools access a defined percentage of the already disbursed US $285 million capitation grant for renovation of schools in preparation for teaching and learning. The Minister for Education and Sports recently announced that all schools in the country would …

Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unknown assailants have killed two police officers attached to Busunju police station in Mityana district. Corporal Alfred Oketch and Police Constable Moses Kigongo met their death at the hands of the assailants on Tuesday evening. Police in Wamala region say that the deceased met their …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health rights activists have blasted Uganda Human Rights Commission-UHRC for downplaying the right of Ugandans to reject vaccination. It comes a day after the Commission chairperson, Mariam Wangadya, said that Ugandans have no right to reject the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise during a press conference …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have called upon the government to improve its efforts in fighting corruption as the country commemorates International Anti-Corruption Day. This came as a response to a statement from the Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity, Rose Lilly Akello, who stated that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organization-WHO has updated its guidelines on COVID-19 therapeutics, excluding use of convalescent plasma for non-severe COVID-19 patients. While the organization gives researchers testing efficacy of plasma in treating severe and critical COVID-19 patients in clinical trials a go ahead, they say in their …

Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Busia police are holding a woman for possessing a suspected bomb. The suspect is Angela Banamwana, 35, a resident of Kisoro district. Police intercepted the suspect on Tuesday from one of the porous border points in Sofia village in the Eastern division of Busia municipality. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP has warned that the “illegal” deployment of Ugandan troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo without Parliament’s approval will cost the country highly. On November 30th 2021, UPDF issued a statement indicating that together with their counterparts of the DRC army, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The file of three people appealing their conviction for causing the government a financial loss of Shillings 24.7billion meant to upgrade the Katosi road has been returned to the Court of Appeal registrar for reallocation. The file has been returned by a three-member panel of …