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Mbale, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Samuel Makhonje has dropped from the Mbale District LC V chairperson’s race in favour of his National Resistance Movement-NRM party rival, Apollo Masika Watenyeli “I have stepped down in favour of the flag bearer Mr. Watenyeli Masika Apollo and I am mobilizing votes for …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A businesswoman in Gulu City is nursing wounds after being shot by an unknown gunman on Wednesday night.  The victim has been identified as Agnes Akello, a merchant and resident of Pece Cubu Ward in Pece-Laroo Division in Gulu City.  She was shot in the …

  Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | George Kule was startled when a bunch of strange—journalists—arrived at his home around midday sometime early November asking why people in his village never voted the National Resistance Movement-NRM presidential candidate, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in 2016 presidential election.   Kule is the LCI chairman of …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Several opposition politicians have criticized the Uganda Joint Christian Council-UJCC for calling for the suspension of the January polls and extension of President, Yoweri Museveni’s rule for three years.  The Kampala Archbishop Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga made the statement while delivering a Christmas message on …

Arua, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National Transformation-ANT presidential candidate Gen. Mugisha Muntu has promised to solve the problem of bad governance in the country once elected president come January 14th, 2021.   Addressing voters at Arua primary school grounds on Wednesday afternoon, Muntu accused the ruling National Resistance …

Namayingo, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Lolwe and Sigulu islands in Namayingo want the UPDF leadership to disband the Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU for alleged gross human rights violations.  This came up during a public meeting alias Baraza organised by the Chief of Staff of Land Forces Maj. Gen. Leopold …

Rukiga, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Rukiga district local government is stuck on how to raise Shillings 100 million to save the playground of Ibugwe Government-aided primary school from being taken over by a businessman, our reporter has learnt. The playground measuring about two acres is found in Ibugwe village in …

Lira, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Lira Regional Referral Hospital has got a blood bank.  The facility was set up by the Health Ministry in partnership with Star Pharmaceutical company. The blood bank comprises an Architect i2000 Elalyasar machine that will be used for screening, testing and analyzing blood.  The blood …

Pader, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A seventy-five-year-old woman in Pader district has been killed by strangulation. Santorina Akello’s lifeless body was found lying in her house in Mission ‘’A’’ Village in Ogole Parish Lapul Sub County by her daughter, Nighty Aloyo on Wednesday. George Ocira, a relative to the deceased …

Mubende, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | National Unity Platform (NUP) Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has declared that his campaign is now being run guerrilla style. Kyagulanyi who drove for over 30km from Mubende town on a bad road to Kasambya where he addressed his supporters for only five minutes and continued …