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Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have appealed to government to review the COVID-19 test costs and ensure that those who test positive get affordable treatment. The call was made during a special sitting this afternoon in which Parliament paid tribute to legislators who have succumbed to COVID-19  …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni declined to assent to the National Coffee Bill and asked parliament to review several provisions in the proposed law. The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga said, in her communication on Tuesday, that the President wants parliament to review clause 14 of the …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Educationists, teachers and parents have welcomed a move by the government to end the closure of schools after almost a year of limited activity. The schools were closed in March 2020, following the outbreak of coronavirus disease, an ailment which, according to experts, spreads faster …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Sugar exporters are to receive a permit for exporting another 20,000 metric tonnes consignment from Kenya next week. In an interview with URN, Trade minister Amelia Kyambadde revealed that this consignment is part of the 90,000 tonnes agreed upon by both governments. Kenya allowed …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The government has told Parliament that it needs more time to consult on the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Amendment Bill 2019 concerning which Ministry should supervise the funds. In September last year MPs disagreed over the clauses relating to midterm access and which Ministry …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan transporters and other road users of the planned Uganda-DR Congo joint roads project will have to pay for the roads whenever they use them, according to outcomes of the talks between the two countries. In 2018, Uganda entered an agreement the Democratic Republic of …

To be able to vaccinate all Ugandans at the current cost, the country will have to spend at least sh2 trillion Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda will spend Sh56 billion to procure an initial 18 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that are expected in the country this month. According to …

Kyagulanyi’s lawyers desperately hunt for Museveni to serve him petition Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers representing the National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, runner-up according to the Electoral Commission in the January 14 presidential elections, have spent the whole day looking for the President-Elect Yoweri Tibahaburwa Museveni …

  Luwero, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Luwero are hunting for two District National Resistance Movement- NRM party officials over alleged fraud. The officials in trouble are Zenar Nasur, the Luwero District NRM Vice-Chairperson and Wasswa Tamale, the Publicity Secretary for the Party. They are accused of embezzling …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | There was tension and race for safety in underworld of the city centre as the new Kampala Central Police Station-CPS operations commander, ASP David Nahamya, launched a hunt for suspected street muggers. In the operation that started at 1pm, 35 mostly youthful men were nabbed from Arua …