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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Two weeks after she had a set of twins through a caesarian section birth conducted at Mengo hospital, Bagategye Shamurah is not only experiencing extreme pain but also incurring a lot of expenses fixing a mess that she claims was made by a doctor at …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University management has postponed the 71st Graduation Ceremony citing different unforeseen issues. According to the university calendar issued recently, the said ceremony had been scheduled to take place on the March 18, 2021. However, the University Senate has revised date to May 7,2021. Prof. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Uganda Police force-UPF has said that the list of missing persons will be released by the Internal Affairs Minister General JeJe-Odongo to Parliament any time. Recently, President Museveni  said that there is no person who was missing but thay had rather been arrested by …

Agago, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  A total of 25 unexploded ordnances -UXOs have been found in Agago and Nwoya districts. The devices believed to have been left behind during the Lord’s Resistance Army –LRA insurgency in Northern Uganda were discovered by the local communities who reported to police and other …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Heads of schools across the country are uncertain whether they will be able to enforce the Standard Operating Procedures and guidelines as they receive non-candidate learners. Several heads teachers URN spoke to say they don’t have enough furniture to enforce the recommended social distance and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City lawyer Male Mabirizi has petitioned the Supreme Court seeking to halt all the proceedings in the presidential election petition filed by former Presidential   Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. Mabirizi in his application filed on Monday wants the hearing of the case in which Kyagulanyi had …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  46 inmates at the Uganda Prisons Service have started their Uganda National Certificate of Education examinations amidst heightened lockdown measures. They include 41 males and five females.  The examinations started at 9 a.m. prompt at the Luzira Maximum Security Prisons where access to outsiders has …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Some supporters and campaign members of the dignitaries contesting to be Speaker of Parliament have gone native and launched smear campaigns online that cannot be quoted in normal media platforms. The gangs, purporting to work for the two frontrunners, Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and Deputy Speaker …

Karamoja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Breastfeeding mothers in Karamoja region are crying to government to help them with food to save the lives of their babies.  Mothers whom Uganda Radio Network -URN found mothers who had taken their children for immunization at Nakapelimen health center III in Moroto Municipality who …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation has published the gazetted notice in which former Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu seeks to withdraw his presidential election petition. The Gazette is the official weekly newspaper in which all government decisions and bills among others are published before they …