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  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | John Katumba, the youngest presidential candidate says he has not withdrawn from the race, as indicated by social media posts and blogs. Information that started circulating last evening through WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter alleged that the candidate has been offered a lucrative job …

Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several supporters of National Unity Platform-NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu are nursing injuries from running battles with the police on Tuesday. Heavily armed police personnel spent a better part of Tuesday battling the supporters who were lined up along the streets of Busia …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Occupants of the offices created under the Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA Amendment Act 2020 haven’t been paid for the nine months they have been in office. They include KCCA Speakers, their Deputies, and executive committee members both at the Authority and the five Divisions of …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Dr Stella Nyanzi, the former Makerere University academic researcher and Forum for Democratic Change-FDC Kampala Woman parliamentary candidate, says it is disheartening to see how Ugandans have been reduced to beggars.        Speaking to Uganda Radio Network on the sidelines of her campaigns …

Kitgum, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Forum for Democratic Change-FDC presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuriat has rallied the people of Acholi to support his candidature with promises of protecting their land once elected into office.  Amuriat successful conducted his campaigns in Lokung and Padibe town councils in Lamwo district on …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Buganda Kingdom has resolved to set up a committee to examine the merits of re-establishing cooperative unions in the central region. The Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga says that their objective is to start cooperative unions in the Kingdom but since they already have existing …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Police’s Flying Squad has rearrested a suspected car robber who escaped from police custody. John Wandera was picked on Monday from one of the suburbs of Kampala after he was tracked and trailed by Flying Squad operatives under the commander of Senior Superintendent of …

Kampala,, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Mulago Women and Neonatal Unit recorded an increase in the number of mothers giving birth to premature babies at the height of the lockdown and just after they started to partially lift it.  The unit that houses the country’s biggest Neonatal Intensive Care Unit …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Women activists want Electoral Commission to control security operations in the ongoing campaigns ahead of the 2021 elections. Speaking at a press briefing organised by the Forum for Women in Democracy at Mestil hotel in Nsambya, Sarah Birete, the Executive Director Center for Constitutional Governance, …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Democratic Party has threatened to reprimand party leaders and supporters backing rival candidates against their presidential candidate and president general, Norbert Mao. This comes amidst sharp division in Uganda’s oldest political party over Mao’s candidature.  It follows a decision by some party members including …