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Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Katakwi District Security Committee has launched a program of reactivating sub-county security committees following rampant cases of cattle theft and land conflicts.   The District Security Committee chaired by Katakwi Resident District Commissioner (RDC), John Stephen Ekoom began the sub-county security committee meetings in Ngariam County …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Paul Lokech, has ordered a probe into how internal police communication is leaked to the public. Lokech, who will be making 100 days in office on Friday, indicates that he is becoming very much concerned with …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Kasese Municipality Teachers Initiative Sacco-KAMTA have failed to pay back a loan of Shillings 150M they obtained from Walimu Cooperative Savings and Credit Union Limited in 2016.   Records from Walimu Cooperative savings and credit union Limited show that KAMTA has only paid back Shillings 10 …

Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Hundreds of Pobura clan members in Lobalokodi village, in Madi-Opei sub-county in Lamwo District, have abandoned their homes following a land row with their neighbours from Pobira clan. At least seven people from Pobura clan sustained serious injuries after unknown men suspected to be from …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has rolled out regional awareness campaigns targeting solar energy consumers and dealers ahead of their proposed crackdown on substandard products in the next financial year.  On Tuesday, UNBS held an intense civic discourse with over 150 entrepreneurs; solar energy …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Police in the Kiira region has arrested a 39- year old man for allegedly impersonating the Kiira Region Police Commander, Dauda Hiriga.  Gabriel Mukiibi, a resident of Wakitaka cell in Northern Division, Jinja City was arrested from his hideout in Wakitaka cell on Tuesday …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The interim leadership of Wandegeya Market in Kampala has embarked on the registration of all vendors in a bid to reorganize the market.  This is also expected to streamline the allocation of working space to the vendors. The new leaders were elected earlier this year …

Buliisa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Stephen Birahwa Mukitale, the Buliisa County Member of Parliament wants the government to allocate part of Bugungu Wildlife Conservation area near Murchison falls National Park to resettle thousands of people displaced by floods in the district.   Bugungu Wildlife Conservation area, which covers 193 square miles, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has met the trade delegation from Kenya who are on a working visit to Uganda over efforts to revive the trade relations between the two countries.    The officials from Kenya started their week-long trip to Uganda on Monday with a …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Nyendo Township Market in Masaka city, is struggling to attract vendors four years after it was commissioned. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, in April 2017 commissioned the market which was constructed at 13 billion Shillings obtained from the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA). The …