Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has given further clarifications allowing teachers and learners to use public transport if the transporters can observe the recommended standard operating procedures. As part of the guidelines for reopening, the Ministry of Education had barred teachers and learners from using general …
Read More »Court issues criminal summons against Ibanda Woman MP, two others
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Court has issued criminal summons against Ibanda Woman Member of Parliament, Jorvine Karisa Kyomukama and two others for assault. The others are Kyomukama’s brother, Julius Katusiime and Afra Nyamwiza. The trio is expected to appear before the Ibanda Chief Magistrate on Oct 14th, 2020 …
Read More »UCAA starts refurbishing public toilets at the airport after passenger complaint
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Civil Aviation Authority-UCAA has started refurbishing public toilets outside Entebbe International Airport. It comes days after a passenger circulated a video message on social media exposing the sorry state of the facility. In the message, the passenger complained that the toilets were poorly …
Read More »Fathers top list of those abusing their children
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development reports an increase in sexual violence against children since March from 20.1% to 40% by the month of July, with fathers being the worst perpetrators during the lockdown. According to the commissioner youth and children affairs …
Read More »ANT to focus on building strong state institutions – Muntu
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National Transformation-ANT party will focus on building strong state institutions and credible alternative forces to check those in power. The ANT President Gen. Mugisha Muntu says that the NRM government has suffocated the country’s institutions that are supposed to hold them …
Read More »Parties struggle as defeated candidates join independents queue
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Political parties through their umbrella organization, the Interparty Organization for Dialogue [IPOD] had proposed an amendment to the electoral laws which would have seen people barred from contesting as independents if they lost party primaries. This was one of the rarest cases in which …
Read More »Colobus monkey faces extinction in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A rare monkey type found on the slopes of mountain Elgon, Virunga and Malamagambo forest is on the brink of extinction. A country census carried out in 2012 found the black and white, red and blue colobus monkey numbers had dwindled to 1,110 from …
Read More »Thug falls asleep after raping woman, victim stabs him to death
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A suspected thug fell asleep after raping a 36-year old single mother of four children in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. The incident happened at Busembe village, Maya parish, Nsangi sub county in Wakiso district. Abbas Bamulangaki Senkumba, allegedly dug a hole in …
Read More »Sweden funds emergency cash transfers to women and children in West Nile
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 56,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under the age of two including refugees in West Nile region are set to get emergency cash transfers thanks to yet another initiative by the World Food Programme and the Government of Uganda. The transfers, …
Read More »Lt Col Edith Nakalema ordered to probe Namanve forest takeover
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has directed Lieutenant Colonel Edith Nakalema, the Head of the State House Anti-Corruption Unit to investigate the encroachment on Namanve and Zirimiti central reserves in Mukono district. Last week, more than 300 people armed with pangas, sticks and metals pitched camp …
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