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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Market vendors in Arua city have tasked the city authorities to train the traders on the usage of facilities in the new market ahead of its commissioning next month. The 24 Billion Shillings market was constructed under African Development Bank funding through the Market and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 1,000 Uganda People’s Defence Forces – UPDF soldiers under the reserve forces have been recalled for deployment in Somalia. Maj Bilal Katamba of the UPDF First Division that superintends reserve forces says that the recalled soldiers should report to nearby barracks not later …

Bunyangabu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private and government-aided schools in Bunyangabu district are chocking on loans and salary arrears. Private schools entirely depend on school enrollment to raise resources for their operations. Similarly, government-aided depend on both the learner’s numbers and some grants from the government. However, the closure of …

  Luweero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Luweero district have asked the Catholic Diocese of Kasana-Luweero to take over the failed pineapple processing plant. In February 2008, pineapple farmers in Luweero under the Natural Uganda Cooperative Society Limited petitioned President Museveni demanding a processing plant to add value to …

PACMECs is incurring high maintenance costs on wildfire-related damage on their transmission lines Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The rampant bush fires in the Acholi sub-region have cost Pader Abim Community Multi-Purpose Electricity Cooperatives Society Limited (PACMECs) millions of shillings in replacement and maintenance of electric poles. PACMECs is responsible …

Mayuge, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU on Sunday destroyed 1,132 illegal fishing nets along Bwondha landing site in Mayuge district. The illegal nets comprised 1,044 beach seines and 88 monofilament nets which they say have been depleting the lake of all its fish species. Half of the …

Number of people committing suicide might increase with the increase in mental illness Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 1,500 youth in Lango have suffered mental illness as a result of excessive consumption of alcohol and smoking marijuana. Reports from Lira Psychiatric Department at the Regional Referral Hospital indicate …

Mayanja in a police statement disputed the alleged use of a knife on his genitals saying Katamba used his teeth to bite through his testicles Kyotera, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | While it is not in dispute that a vanilla farmer in Kyotera decided to castrate his employee, there is disagreement …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Analysis of the last three year police records on car thefts shows less than 25 percent of cases were taken to court. The statistics compiled by Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID indicate that police registered 1,114 car thefts countrywide in 2019, but only 244 were taken to …

Court of Appeal has quashed the sentence by High Court Judge Wilson Kwesiga convicting Johnson Adiga over murder citing irregularities Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Court of Appeal in Lira has set free Johnson David Adiga, more than 10 years after he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court …