NEWS

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament has approved the amendment of the National Medical Stores-NMS and National Drug Authority-NDA acts.  This follows Parliament’s adoption of the Public Accounts Committee- PAC Central Government report on the findings of the Auditor-General on the Health Sector for the financial years 2016/2017 to 2019/2020.  In …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Kampala has been named among the 18 cities in low- and middle-income countries that qualify for grants targeting COVID-19 vaccines preparedness.  The funding from the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Partnership for Healthy Cities initiative will see Uganda’s Capital city receive up to $50000 funding to support communication awareness needed for …

Kyagulanyi was at the JEEMA offices in Mengo on Thursday to meet with the top party leaders Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Top leaders of the Justice Forum-JEEMA party declined to attend a meeting with the National Unity Platform party president Kyagulanyi Robert Ssentamu. In his effort to reach out to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government officers must not use the official Secrets Act to deny citizens the right to access of information and records. It is emerging that civil servants at different levels have tended to use archaic laws like the official secrets act to deny citizens information. The official …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National Transformation-ANT party is planning to conduct internal party elections in August 2021, to streamline its structures from the grassroots. The party which believes in building party structures, has been operating with an interim leadership composed of the National, Regional and Sub region …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has recommended that National Medical Stores-NMS should face competition with other players in the field. Legislators this Thursday afternoon approved parliament’s Public Accounts Committee- PAC, report carrying a recommendation that the monopoly of National Medical Stores be stopped. The report on the findings of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government of Kenya has started defending itself in a case in which Kampala based lawyer Male Mabirizi sued it for banning Ugandan maize and poultry in their country. In its defense filed before the East African Court of Justice in Nairobi sub registry, the Kenyan …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | National Medical Stores (NMS) has hit back at accusations of improper conduct leveled against them by parliament, arguing that they are not backed by facts. NMS said it was particularly alarmed by concerns by Members of Parliament (MPs) that the institution is not using …

Kagadi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kagadi police are holding six people, among them a witch doctor on allegations of kidnapping two children. The witch doctor has been identified as Sylvester Bagonza, a resident of Kyomunembe cell in Kagadi town council, Kagadi district. The particulars of the remaining suspects have been withheld …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has drawn a plan that it hopes will increase the level of industrialization to 31.7% of the value of the Ugandan economy (GDP) in the next 10 years up from the current 27% recorded in 2018/2019. The new National Industrial Plan, it is hoped …