Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents in remote areas of Kasese district are to benefit from solar energy thanks to the construction of six solar mini power stations in Kasese and Rubirizi districts to enhance Uganda’s goal of achieving access to universal clean and renewable energy. The power stations …
Read More »Soroti RDC bars hawkers from selling goods in gov’t offices
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Soroti Resident District Commissioner-RDC Patrick Okumu has barred hawkers from accessing and selling goods around government offices citing security concerns. Okumu says that some of the hawkers are spies who access offices with intentions of stealing while others hatch plans that compromise security in the district. …
Read More »NDA moves to register herbalists
NDA to register all herbalists to ascertain quality and effectiveness of herbal medicine Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Drug Authority-NDA is in the process of registering herbal medicine practitioners across the country in a bid to ensure the quality and safety of herbal medicine. Michael Mutyaba, the manager National Medicines …
Read More »Focus turns to post-COVID recovery as Uganda celebrates World Veterinary Day in Nakasongola
Nakasongola, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has encouraged government and the Uganda Veterinary Association (UVA) to ensure the services of animal health personnel reaches out to the common person at the grass roots. This, FAO suggests, can be done by …
Read More »Justice Chibita appointed head of Judicial Training Institute
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Supreme Court Justice Mike Chibita is the new chairperson of the governing council of the Judicial Training Institute. He replaces fellow Supreme Court Judge Stella Arach Amoko following his appointment by the Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo. “I have the pleasure to inform you that I have …
Read More »Prisons use up 99% of their Covid-19 vaccine doses
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Prisons Services has less than 100 COVID-19 vaccine doses left amidst very high demand by the personnel and prison communities to get vaccinated. Frank Baine, public relations officer of Uganda prisons says the security agency received 10,000 doses and over 9,900 have been consumed. This …
Read More »CSOs ask gov’t to review Covid-19 stimulus packages
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil society Organizations-CSOs and representatives from the private sector demand that the government review the stimulus package instituted during the Covid-19 pandemic. From April 2020, the government put in place several packages with an objective of supporting the different businesses that were hit hard by …
Read More »MPs call for mainstreaming malaria as a cross cutting issue
Parliamentary Forum on Malaria wants government to dedicate Shillings 250 billion to fighting malaria for a period of five years Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliamentary Forum on Malaria is calling for the mainstreaming of the fight against malaria as a means to kick the disease completely out of the …
Read More »CCTV cameras, flying squad reveal car theft spots
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | For years, Katwe policing division has been known as the leading car theft zone in Kampala city. But it has now been replaced by Old Kampala and Kawempe policing divisions. Incidents of motor vehicle thefts captured by Closed Circuit Television cameras and Flying Squad’s intelligence led …
Read More »Pipeline compensation claims outnumber affected persons by far
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The number of persons with interests on land located in the route of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline- EACOP is nearly 1,000 more than the number of Project Affected Persons-PAPs, according to information available. According to the approved resettlement action plan, a total of 3,792 …
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