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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 200 boda boda riders in Kabale municipality took to the streets on Monday to protest extortion by security officers deployed to enforce the night-time curfew. The angry riders rode their bikes through Kabale town to Rwakaraba where they attacked a police checkpoint along Kabale-Kisoro …

Busia, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Residents in Masafu sub-county of Busia district say they are not ready to vote for National Resistance Movement -NRM party candidates come 2021 over lack of electricity. According to residents, they have previously voted NRM leaders who failed to extend electricity especially in trading …

Soroti, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   The Forum for Democratic Change- FDC Presidential Candidate, Patrick Amuriat Oboi has said that persons pushing for regime change in Uganda should focus on two folds; the Ballot and Plan B, whose details she did not divulge.  Amuriat made the appeal from Soroti, where …

Amuru, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   A minor was killed on Sunday evening when floods swept through Elegu Town Council in Amuru district.  Three-year-old Raymond Giga had just been put to sleep by her mother, Sylvia Gimono in Lorikwo West Village in Elegu Town Council when the floods submerged the …

 Mukono, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Nancy Linda Kalembe, an independent presidential candidate last evening shared the same campaign platform with the National Unity Platform candidates in Goma division, Mukono Municipality. Kalembe who was supposed to begin her campaigns in the districts of Jinja, Mayuge, Luuka, Buyende and Kamuli made …

Rukungiri, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has finally fulfilled his pledge of donating 10 heifers to Rukungiri women leaders, five years since he made the offer. The president who is seeking another term of office in the 2021 general elections made a pledge …

Kyenjojo, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Leaders of National Unity Platform- NUP in Kyenjojo on Monday opened the party’s office in the district amidst tight security guidelines.     According to the NUP Coordinator in Tooro Sub-Region, Innocent Natukunda, they had planned to meet at least 70 supporters. However, Natukunda, who …

Soroti, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   National Resistance Movement-NRM party officials in Soroti district have clashed over the distribution of bicycles. The Teso Region NRM mobiliser, Teddy Acam accuses Charles Elasu, the Soroti District NRM Chairperson distributing the bicycles secretly without informing her.   Acam says being the NRM regional political …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Families have now been allowed to bury their loved ones that succumb to COVID-19. The government had initially taken up the burial arrangements, to guarantee safe and dignified burials, commonly used when dealing with highly infectious diseases. Guidelines earlier  issued by the health ministry  …

Luweero, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Police in Luweero town has fired teargas to disperse supporters of National Unity Platform – NUP who gathered along the Kampala-Gulu highway to wave to their Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu, alias Bobi Wine. Kyagulanyi was heading to Arua district in northern Uganda ahead …