Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buseruka sub county authorities in Hoima district have raised a red flag over the high number of teenage girls involved in commercial sex. According to the authorities, many girls between 15 and 17 years have dropped out of school to engage in commercial sex to earn …
Read More »Fluctuating milk prices still a challenge to South Western dairy farmers
Kiruhura, Uganda | Julius Businge | Dairy farmers in South Western Uganda continue to cry over fluctuating low milk prices as the cost of running farms spike. In separate interviews with journalists on May 21-22, farmers said, the government has a solution for them but it is taking long to act. …
Read More »Declining forest cover in spotlight as Uganda marks Day for Biological Diversity
Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | As the world celebrated the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) May 22, Ugandan experts have called for a new focus to address the negative impacts of infrastructure development on biodiversity particularly at ecosystem and species safety level. According to Francis Ogwal, the Head of …
Read More »Museveni reveals how Kadaga was edged out
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni said his party had to resort to guerilla tactics to defeat Rebecca Kadaga from her third term attempt as Speaker of Parliament. Museveni who had been silent during the election of the speakers of the 11th Parliament finally revealed the tactics used to defeat …
Read More »Newly sworn in Kagongo division chairperson perishes in accident
Ibanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Aggrey Mushabe, the newly sworn-in LC 3 chairperson of Kagongo division in Ibanda Municipality has perished in a motor accident. Mushabe died on Monday morning on his way to Ruhoko health center III. The accident occurred at around 11:00 am along Kashuku road in Ibanda Municipality. …
Read More »Families plead with gov’t to reopen nodding syndrome treatment centers
Omoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The families of nodding syndrome victims in Acholi are pleading with the government to expeditiously reopen the treatment centers in the region. This follows the deteriorating health condition and death of some of the affected children in Odek sub county in Omoro district and Tumangur in …
Read More »Anita Among overwhelmingly elected Deputy Speaker
🔴 SPEAKER ✳ Oulanyah 310 votes ✳ Kadaga 197 votes ✳ Ssemujju 15 votes ✳ Invalid votes 2 ➡ 524 VOTES 🔴 DEPUTY SPEAKER ✳ Among 415 votes ✳ Nsibambi 37 votes ✳ Nsereko 24 votes ✳ Invalid votes 7 ➡ 483 VOTES Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bukedea Woman …
Read More »Mulago and Entebbe hospital ICUs full of Covid-19 patients
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The intensive care units at Mulago National Referral Hospital and Entebbe General Hospital are full of COVID-19 patients according to medics. This comes weeks after the country entered the second wave of COVID-19 cases which many scientists predicted would be worse compared to the first one …
Read More »Retired UN driver killed in Kasangati
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unknown assailants have brutally killed a retired employee of United Nations-UN in Uganda in Kyankyima Zone in Kasangati town council Wakiso district. Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire identified the deceased as Barnabas Kakyaama Muwonge. According to Owoyesigyire, Muwonge met his death in the …
Read More »Makerere graduand found dead
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A former student of Makerere University has been found dead in his room barely a week after his graduation. The deceased is 27-year-old James Eyangu, the former president of Makerere College of Veterinary Medicine. He graduated on Wednesday in Biomedical Laboratory Technology. According to …
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