Isingiro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Twenty-two people have been sentenced to 100 hours’ of community service after being convicted on different charges. The charges include engaging in domestic violence, theft, threatening violence, simple robbery, malicious damage, causing grievous harm, and engaging in a negligent act likely to spread disease. Most …
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Kakumiro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Armed Thugs have robbed 16 million Shillings from a businesswoman in Kuhuna Trading Centre in Kakumiro district. It is alleged that six thugs, armed with a gun, last night raided a shop owned by one Margret Basemera, 49, and held her at gunpoint before ordering …
Read More »Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The management of Makerere University has this afternoon launched platforms on which willing individuals and organizations can offer monetary contributions for the restoration of the iconic main building. The structure, widely referred to as the Ivory Tower, was gutted by fire on September 20. In …
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Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum Municipal Council is expected to receive an additional 1 billion Shillings from the government to boost infrastructural works under Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructural Development [USMID] programme. This comes after Kitgum was ranked the best among 21 other municipalities on the performance measures under …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |The Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) has made it clear that it will cater for the COVID-19 testing fees for the four teams that will play in the FUFA Big League playoffs. The Playoffs will determine which one team that will qualify to play …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of the Natural Resources Committee of Parliament want the Minerals Police Protection Unit disbanded for brutalizing artisanal miners. The unit was created at the height of conflicts in the mining areas of Bisya, Engaju and Nsiika among others between the large scale miners and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police leadership has resolved to retrain 94 medical Police Constables so that they can be elevated to ranks befitting their qualifications. The decision to retrain the Constables comes at the time when policemen and women who joined the force in June 2015 with medical documents …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A combined team of Uganda Peoples Defense Forces-UPDF and police personnel have today arrested Emmanuel Ngobi, a resident of Ntege village in the southern division of Jinja city. Ngobi, who is currently detained at Gadaffi military barracks, is accused of impersonating as a Chieftaincy of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Researchers are calling for open access to hydroxyurea, the only effective drug proven to reduce the frequency of painful episodes among persons with sickle cell disease. They say that the drug should be given to everyone who battles the painful hereditary blood disorder without discrimination. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As candidates prepare to return to their respective schools, their counterparts in non-finalist classes will be learning from home in what the government has termed; the homeschooling programme. However, many parents and approximately 12.7 million learners at primary and secondary levels that have had …
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