Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Karamoja sub-region is set to receive 2,500 police personnel this month to beef up security and enhance operations, especially on disarmament. The additional personnel will also enhance a crackdown on cattle thefts and counter cattle rustling that has persisted in the region. The deployment follows …
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Adjumani, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two people have been killed in renewed tribal clashes between the Acholi community in Apaa township and Madi people from neighboring Adjumani district. Local authorities say an unspecified number of Madi assailants armed with machetes crossed Juka river into Goro B on Sunday with an …
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Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security officials in Kitgum district have issued a warning to residents and political leaders against attacking nomadic pastoralists. The warning follows a statement made by the Chua West Member of Parliament Philip Polly Okin Ojara, over the weekend inciting locals to “treat Balalo cattle as …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will address the nation tomorrow September 22 on COVID-19 and the measures being taken to control it. The address is set for 8pm. He is expected to address the long standing issue of a closed education and religious sector and …
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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Hoima is holding a security guard for allegedly shooting a suspected thief dead. The arrested security guard has only been identified as Awori, who had been deployed to guard a cattle farm owned by one Manzi Tumubwine in Kibaali village, Buraru sub-county in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyer Male Mabirizi has asked the Law Development Centre Magistrates Court to issue criminal summons to National Unity Platform President Robert Kyagulanyi, requiring him to appear and take a plea on charges of obtaining false registration at Makerere University. Kyagulanyi graduated from Makerere University about …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Gulu has dismissed an election petition filed against Nancy Acora, the Lamwo District Woman Member of Parliament. Acora, an Independent candidate was declared winner of the elections after polling 17,064 votes against her rival Molly Lanyero’s with 12,062 votes in the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliament Committee on Education has approved a 529 billion shillings loan for the Ministry of Education to construct schools in several sub-counties. According to the ministry, 116 schools will be constructed out of which 84 schools will be in non-refugee hosting districts while 32 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health says the 1,674,270 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine it has received from the US government will be administered only within Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono. Dr. Alfred Driwale, the program manager of Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization says the Pfizer …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Energy is a key driver for economic growth and development across all economies. It is the catalyst through which real transformation can be achieved due to its multiplier effects across many aspects of our lives. It is against this background that The Mkutano and Ministry …
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