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Inadequate staff hindering revenue collection in Gulu city

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The inadequate number of town agents is hindering the local revenue collection in Pece-Laroo division in Gulu city. The division has six agents instead of the required 19. According to the division’s revenue performance report for the first quarter of the 2021/2022 financial year, only …

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Fort Portal resident hacks two year old girl to death

Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Fort Portal have arrested a 36 year-old man for allegedly killing a two-year-old girl and injuring two others. According to the Rwenzori West Police Spokesperson Vincent Twesige, David Kachope, a resident of Kidukuru cell, Karambi ward in Fort Portal allegedly hacked …

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Uganda records positive balance of trade, as gold receipts hurt

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s export and import trade sector recorded declines in both volumes and value in the last six months of the year ending October 2021, as economic activity slowed down compared to the previous six months. Uganda had previously recorded a deficit in trade in both …

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Rakai considers altering stalled bulk water project for fishing

Rakai, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A multi-purpose water supply project has been lying idle for ten years since it was commissioned in Kiyumbakimu village, Kagamba sub county. The 7 billion Shillings project measuring over one kilometre long and about 200 meters wide was meant to provide sufficient water for domestic …

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11 injured in Bududa road accident

Bududa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 10  people have been critically injured following an accident in Bududa district. The accident involving a Fuso truck, registration number UAW 329Y occurred at around Women’s Corner Stage, along Bududa-Mbale highway in Bududa district. According to police preliminary investigations, the driver of the Fuso …

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Arua police destroys 20 bags of impounded opium

Arua, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Arua are hunting for an unidentified man who abandoned 20 bags of opium estimated at UGX 20 Million in a tricycle. The man reportedly abandoned the tricycle after spotting a police patrol vehicle along the Arua-Logiri road. The tricycle registration number UFH 240U …

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Lawyers demand unconditional release of novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers representing Novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija are demanding his unconditional release. Speaking to Uganda Radio Network on Wednesday, the lawyers from Kiiza and Mugisha Advocates led by Eron Kiiza said, Kakwenza was arrested on Tuesday at around 4pm from his home in Kisaasi, a Kampala city …

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