Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has banned flights to and from India following the high COVID- 19 infections and deaths in the Asian country. India has so far recorded more than 18 million cases of COVID-19 with over 208,000 deaths. The country is also in a crisis with …
Read More »Heath ministry recognizes Soroti medics for successful operation on conjoined twins
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The medical team from Soroti Regional Referral Hospital that conducted a successful separation of conjoined twins in March has been recognized once again, this time by the Ministry of Health. A team of medics led by Dr Joseph Epodoi, the consultant surgeon successfully separated conjoined twins …
Read More »Trained specialists graduate from Uganda Heart Institute
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The first cohort of 49 locally trained specialists have graduated from the Uganda Heart Institute. Previously, doctors who wanted to specialize in heart care had to travel abroad at a total cost of 400 Million Shillings. With just 100 Million Shillings, doctors have been able …
Read More »One dead as minibus rams into immigration office perimeter wall
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One person has died and two others injured after a minibus driver lost control and knocked a motorcycle along the Kampala-Jinja road. The accident happened near the Ministry of Internal Affairs offices in Kampala on Friday. According to eyewitnesses, the Isuzu minibus registration number UAW-298N that …
Read More »Justice Kwesiga recuses himself from Entebbe expressway murder case
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Wilson Kwesiga has excused himself from a case in which Police Constable Davis Taremwa is accused of killing two people along the Entebbe expressway in 2019. Taremwa was in 2019 charged with two counts of murder over a shooting that claimed two lives of Joshua …
Read More »Chinese contractor loses 114 million to theft and vandalism
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) Limited, a company currently undertaking a multi-billion piped water project in Kitgum district is losing over 114 million shillings due to theft and vandalism. Hu Min, the project coordinator of the Orom Water Supply and Sanitation System says during a …
Read More »KYAGULANYI: I won’t negotiate with Museveni to free our people
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The president of the National Unity Platform-NUP, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has said that he has no intentions of negotiating with president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for the release his supporters who were arrested last year. It’s exactly four months since security forces rounded up and arrested members …
Read More »Ugandan trucker beaten to coma, 6 Kenyans kidnapped in South Sudan
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Ugandan truck driver identified as Vincent Mulika, alias Kamanda is battling for his life after he was allegedly beaten to coma by the military and immigrations officials in South Sudan. Mulika was reportedly beaten on Wednesday in Nesitu, along Nimule-South Sudan highway while transporting cargo …
Read More »Crimean Congo fever reported in Kyangwali refugee settlement area
Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health officials in Kikuube district have confirmed an outbreak of the Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever in the district. The virus, caused by a tick-borne virus is primarily transmitted to people from ticks and livestock animals, while human-to-human transmission occurs from close contact with the blood, secretions, …
Read More »Farmers in Acholi raise concern over dilapidated produce stores
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers in the Acholi sub-region have raised concern over the sorry state of produce stores built by the government during the Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA rebels post conflict. Several stores across the eight districts in the region are non-functional or their roofs were blown out by violent …
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