Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries –MAAIF is unable to carry out the mass vaccination of cattle against Foot and Mouth Disease-FMD due to vaccine shortage. Dozens of districts across the country such as Gomba, Isingiro, Kazo, Kiruhura, Wakiso, Kiboga, Kiryandongo, Koboko, Masindi, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has been given two days to provide a report about the power outage that paralysed business at the Entebbe International Airport a week ago. The demand was made during a meeting between a team from the Civil Aviation …
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➡️ 3.5 kilometers runway ➡️ Long enough for: ✅Boeing 777 ✅Antonov 124 Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Construction of the Hoima-based Kabaale International Airport will be completed in 16 months from now. The contractor-SBC and Uganda Refinery Holding Company say slightly above 30 percent of the work is yet …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Arua have launched a manhunt for their own following a shooting incident in Lemo trading center Logiri sub-county in Arua district. The suspect is Assistant Inspector of Police, Fred Acedri, who is attached to the Counter-Terrorism Police in Para. He is wanted for shooting …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | For the 18 months of the nationwide school closure, private school teachers have been waiting to get a relief fund from the government. However, the long-awaited revolving fund worth Shillings 20 billion might not come through soon as different groups fight for its management. …
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Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Olive Kazaarwe Mukwaya has thrown out the third petition challenging the election of Idah Erios Nantaba as Kayunga District Woman Member of Parliament. She delivered the verdict in her ruling on an application filed by Nantaba’s rival, Harriet Nakwede. The petitioner, who ran on …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 90 out of the 170 District and Division Police Commanders –DPC who completed a 3-months’ refresher course at Olilim Counter-Terrorism Training School last month have been redeployed at their former police stations. In a bid to revamp police resilience towards fighting crime, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 229 people perished in 1,407 road accidents recorded last month, according to the police’s Directorate of Traffic and Road Safety. Faridah Nampiima, the Traffic Directorate Spokesperson, said that the accidents which mostly emanated from reckless driving also resulted in serious and minor …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID has dismissed claims that they are harassing the former Presidency Minister, Esther Mbayo. Recently, CID invited Mbayo to appear before the CID headquarters for interrogations in connection to the ongoing investigations into the embezzlement scandal at Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation-UPPC. “The Directorate of Criminal …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police Monday evening gunned down a suspected terrorist in Kyebando-Kawempe Division a Kampala City suburb. Fred Enanga, the Police Spokesperson has identified the deceased as Hamid Nsubuga, a suspected a suicide bomber who escaped from Pader district in Northern Uganda in August. “Nsubuga …
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