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📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 Original BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – start – June 7 ▶ P6, S3 & S5 – re-start – June 7 ▶ P4-P5 – holidays – June 4 📌 3-year plan to harmonize school calendar ✳ Terms 12 weeks ✳ Holidays 15-17 days ✳ No exams ✳ 2021 starts …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has directed legislators from Karamoja to join the security team in searching for the people involved in lynching a famous community leader. It comes a week after unknown people lynched Mariko Abura Apanaluk, a renown Karimojong elder and kraal leader together …

Omoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Caretakers of children debilitated by the nodding syndrome in Omoro district want the government to roll out special soft skills training to ensure sustainable livelihood in their families. The affected families say they have continued to survive on handouts from well-wishers and charity organizations, saying …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 100 residents of Ombokoro village, Adalafu parish in Ayivu West division in Arua city are outraged because of the closure of the only borehole after one woman in the area tested positive for Covid-19. Suspected members of the water user committee secretly closed …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the mango season enters its peak with limited market, fruit farmers in Acholi sub region can now have a sigh of relief after government ventured into piloting a mango juice processing project. Through a strategic partnership, Gulu University backed by Operation Wealth Creation, and …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The director of Arua Regional Referral Hospital, Dr. Filbert Nyeko is in trouble over failure to recover an ambulance that went missing nearly three months ago. The Toyota Land Cruiser ambulance belonging to Arua Regional referral hospital, Reg. No. UG 6812M was discovered missing from …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Jinja city has arrested four suspects whom they accuse of robbing passengers during transit in commuter vehicles. The suspects who were arrested include; Saleh Balamya, Moran Kampi, Rodgers Magoola and Najib Mulindwa. The suspects reportedly hire different commuter taxis from their unsuspecting colleagues, …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kilembe mines hospital has permanently been shifted to Kasese town according to administrators of the facility. The hospital suffered two waves of flash floods on May 7 and May 10, last year after rivers Nyamwamba, Mubuku, Nyamughasana and Lubhiliha burst their banks sweeping through Kilembe …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | New companies intending to invest in the exploration of Uganda’s oil and gas industry starting next year, have embarked on the tour of the oil fields that the government has put up on the market. The four companies shortlisted for the final round of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A staff member and student of Kyambogo University have succumbed to the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19). The University administration confirmed that Doreen Mirembe Juliet, a second year student of Bachelor of Teacher Education who has been in Intensive Care Unit-ICU at Victoria Hospital in Bukoto and …