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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has so far delivered nine hundred thousand dozes of Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) vaccines to affected areas, two months after it announced a mass vaccination exercise. The country has been battling an FMD outbreak since December 2020, when it was first detected …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Kasaija’s tax burden: How to raise money from ideas that failed THE LAST WORD Paved with good intentions: How Western interventions in African affairs, even when well intentioned, produce bad results ANALYSIS Saving …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The planned parish development model will be implemented with much less funds as the finance ministry agreed to slash over 290 billion shillings from its budget.   The government had intended to spend over 490 billion shillings on the model but it met resistance from members …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The government has banned flights to and from India following the high COVID- 19 infections and deaths in the Asian country.  India has so far recorded more than 18 million cases of COVID-19 with over 208,000 deaths. The country is also in a crisis with …

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The medical team from Soroti Regional Referral Hospital that conducted a successful separation of conjoined twins in March has been recognized once again, this time by the Ministry of Health. A team of medics led by Dr Joseph Epodoi, the consultant surgeon successfully separated conjoined twins …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The first cohort of 49 locally trained specialists have graduated from the Uganda Heart Institute. Previously, doctors who wanted to specialize in heart care had to travel abroad at a total cost of 400 Million Shillings. With just 100 Million Shillings, doctors have been able …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One person has died and two others injured after a minibus driver lost control and knocked a motorcycle along the Kampala-Jinja road. The accident happened near the Ministry of Internal Affairs offices in Kampala on Friday. According to eyewitnesses, the Isuzu minibus registration number UAW-298N that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Wilson Kwesiga has excused himself from a case in which Police Constable Davis Taremwa is accused of killing two people along the Entebbe expressway in 2019. Taremwa was in 2019 charged with two counts of murder over a shooting that claimed two lives of Joshua …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) Limited, a company currently undertaking a multi-billion piped water project in Kitgum district is losing over 114 million shillings due to theft and vandalism. Hu Min, the project coordinator of the Orom Water Supply and Sanitation System says during a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The president of the National Unity Platform-NUP, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has said that he has no intentions of negotiating with president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for the release his supporters who were arrested last year. It’s exactly four months since security forces rounded up and arrested members …