Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two people have been knocked dead and three others injured when a police truck lost control and knocked several vehicles and motorcycles along the road in Nsambya, a suburb of Kampala. The Hino truck registration number UP 5638 failed to brake and rammed into …
Read More »Former Crane Bank staff petition court over documents held by DFCU
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 400 former employees of Crane Bank Limited have petitioned the High Court in Kampala seeking orders to compel DFCU Bank to produce documents that were allegedly withheld by the bank after their dismissal. The group was employed by Crane Bank Limited until …
Read More »Multi-billion cereal processing plant opens in Soroti
Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Soroti City will be home to a multi-billion agro-processing business for cereals, thanks to Pela Commodities Limited, a new industry being established in Arapai industrial area. Pela commodities has already started laying its machinery in the area near Soroti Fruit Factory. It is expected …
Read More »Committee irked by encroachment on railway land
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The land investigations committee appointed to establish the state of ownership of Uganda Railways Corporation- URC land have expressed concern about the extent of encroachment on both the rail line and its reserves. In December last year, the Works Minister, Gen Katumba Wamala, appointed …
Read More »Archbishop Lwanga buried, as Ssemogerere takes care of Kampala
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Late Archbishop of Kampala Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga has been laid to rest, in Lubaga Cathedral, Kampala. Lwanga died in his room at Rubaga, in the precincts of the Cathedral on Saturday. The medical team that carried out the postmortem stated that he …
Read More »Thugs shoot police corporal in night operation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Police Corporal is nursing wounds at Kiruddu Hospital in Kampala after he was shot by thugs during an operation on Wednesday. Robert Ekakor and three other police officers were pursuing armed thugs in Makindye Luwafu when the thugs who were on a motorcycle …
Read More »Statement on beating journalists was a ’joke blown out of proportion’ – Ochola
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector-General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has backtracked on his statement in which he appeared to endorse police brutality against journalists. Today, he told a parliamentary committee that “it was a joke.” Ochola, early this year told a joint security press briefing that …
Read More »Parishes in Kampala hold requiem masses for Archbishop Lwanga
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several parishes in Kampala Archdiocese on Thursday held requiem masses for the late Kampala Archbishop Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga. On Wednesday, the interim Administrator of Kampala Archdiocese, Monsignor Charles Kasibante directed all parishes in the archdiocese to hold simultaneous requiem masses when the burial …
Read More »Delivery of Uganda’s second dose of COVID-19 vaccines could delay
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The commitment by the COVAX facility to provide Uganda with over three million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the first half of 2021 will be delayed, the World Health Organisation Uganda Country Representative Dr Tegnen Yonas Woldermariam said on Thursday. Dr Tegnen told …
Read More »Uganda to stick with AstraZeneca despite blood clot evidence
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda will not discontinue the use of the AstraZeneca jab in immunizing people against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) with the raising fears of blood clots and low platelet counts as side effects of the drug, experts have said. The experts said in a briefing on …
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