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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II has urged his subjects and other Ugandans to strictly observe all the set Covid-19 guidelines as they celebrate Christmas. In his Christmas message, Kabaka Mutebi encourages Ugandans to follow all the guidance and directives given by medical …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A teacher has committed suicide in Oyam district allegedly over debt. The deceased has been identified as Aldo Ocen, 65, a teacher at Ayomjeri primary school in Aber sub county, Oyam district. Ocen, a resident of Akudi-Igida village, Adel Parish in Minakulu sub county consumed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A group of human rights defenders and lawyers under the Uganda Law Society have condemned the continued detention of Nicholas Opio, a city lawyer who was arrested on allegations of money laundering and has been denied police bond. Opiyo, a human rights lawyer was arrested …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Naggalama police division are holding three suspects accused of assaulting National Resistance Movement-NRM party mobilisers in Mukono North County. The suspects are Frank Sserunjogi, Muzamiru Mpanga and Edward Ssekabira. The trio together with others still at large are said to have attacked NRM mobilisers who …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Catholic Bishop of Kasana-Luweero Diocese Paul Ssemogerere is raising a red flag over the general election due in three weeks, saying a considerable number of Ugandans are about to be disenfranchised. “Many eligible voters have reported to me that they are failing to secure …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fortunate Rose Nantongo has officially joined the Kyotera Woman parliamentary race replacing her deceased mother, the late Robina Nakasirye. Nantongo, an advocate of the High Court was nominated on Wednesday by Koreb Nahamya, the Kyotera district electoral commission registrar on the Democratic Party ticket at …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Covid-19 taskforce is now like an army fighting a war without intelligence services as for sometime now they have not been monitoring, classifying and sequencing which strains of coronavirus are circulating in the country. As such, the experts cannot tell even whether the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Resistance Movement-NRM leaders have endorsed 29-year-old, Edith Namugabe Kulabako as the official party candidate for the Masaka District Woman parliamentary race. Namugabe replaces her aunt and former Masaka Woman NRM parliamentary candidate and incumbent, Freda Nanziri Kase Mubanda who succumbed to COVID-19 on Wednesday …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | HIV activists are blaming government for not giving people living with HIV information regarding the new Anti-Retroviral Therapies (ARVs) yet the country has adopted a human rights approach as a key tool in their HIV response as recommended by the World Health Organisation. In a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several campaign posters of opposition candidates were removed from the stands in different parts of Masaka as President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni went to campaign in the area. The affected posters are those of opposition politicians that include presidential, parliamentary and local government candidates that had …