Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawmakers sitting on the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) have cited death threats relating to the ongoing probe into the irregular operations of the Uganda Airlines. Preliminary findings of the Committee have pinned down the Airlines Chief Executive Officer-CEO, Jenifer Bamuturaki, …
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Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security personnel in Kitgum district have arrested the 7th ring leader of criminal gangs who have been terrorizing the district in the past three weeks. The suspect identified only as Canacana, was arrested last evening from Opete village, Labongo Amida sub county, with two of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Court of Appeal in Kampala has advised jailed lawyer Male Mabirizi to seek pardon from the court that sent him to prison to serve an 18 months imprisonment for contempt of court. The formal advice was made on Friday by Court of Appeal Justices …
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Napak, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has reunited over 200 children who were recently rescued from streets of Kampala with their families in Napak district. A total of 260 children were rounded up in an operation mounted by Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA, Ministry of Gender and police and taken …
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Otuke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Otuke district has received 30,000 metric tons of relief food from the Office of the Prime Minister. The area which lies on the border of the Karamoja sub-region has for years experienced unreliable rainfall punctuated with drought, floods, and hailstorms which caused insufficient agricultural production …
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Pakwach, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The search for the body of Robert Kaweesi, a Briton of Ugandan origin who drowned in River Nile in Pakwach on Wednesday, has been concluded after police divers recovered his body. The incident happened at around 6:40 pm when Kaweesi, 48, together with his family …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kiira region on Friday confirmed the arrest of Bosco Gudo and his wife Eseza Musasizi, over the murder of their two year-old son Jordan Kitimbo for sacrificial rituals. 32 year old Gudo and his wife Musasizi aged 21, both residents of Buwolelo village …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa has called on the Ministry of Finance to increase funding to the National Physical Planning Board for it to effectively execute their mandate. While chairing the House on Thursday, 18 August 2022, Tayebwa said that the Board is …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF in the Forth Division Army Barracks has started a mindset change campaign among teenagers in a move to curb crimes in Gulu city and its surrounding. Through the Watoto Church Ministry in Gulu city, the military is carrying out awareness …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has fixed December 15th 2022 to decide on the legality of the agreement signed between the government and Uganda Vinci Coffee Company Limited to manage the production, export and setting of coffee prices in the country. Civil Division Judge Emmanuel …
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