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Moroto, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Business grounded to a halt in Moroto district on Monday afternoon following a clash between Jie cattle rustlers from Kotido district and UPDF soldiers at Kobebe grazing area.   The Jie cattle rustlers of Kotido had crossed to rustle animals in the busy Kobebe grazing area …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Military Prosecutors have asked for more time to respond to the bail application filed by  49 supporters of National Unity Platform currently facing charges of illegal possession of ammunition before the General Court Martial. The group on Monday appeared physically before the Court presided …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The first runner-up in the recently concluded presidential election Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has petitioned the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the victory of the president elect Yoweri Museveni. The National Unity Platform -NUP president has filed his petition this afternoon against National Resistance Movement -NRM …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Legal Aid Service Providers organized under Legal Aid Service Providers Network-LASPNET have decried impunity of security organs and political interference in legal, matters that have adversely affected human rights. In their report about the Human Rights during the 2021electoral process, they say Freedom of expression, …

Moroto, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Karimojong and Kenyan Turkana pastoralists in Moroto district are currently gripped with panic of possible death of their livestock following the fall of water levels in the giant Kobebe dam. Kobebe water dam located about 50km from Moroto town in Moroto district was re-constructed by the ministry of …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate for the Northern Region youth parliamentary seat has gone missing. Boniface Young, a resident of Koboko district disappeared on Sunday afternoon shortly after leaving his hotel room in Gulu City to print his campaign posters.   His polling agent, Ali …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala City traders have called for the restoration of trade order in the capital, which is currently messed up with a pool of roadside vendors. They are also concerned about the jumbled parking of public taxis and motorcycles in ungazetted parking spaces, and poor garbage …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Initiative for Social and Economic Rights-ISER and Uganda Consortium on Corporate Accountability-UCCA have tasked government to come up with a complete plan of reopening schools for all learners to ease public anxiety.  The CSOs note that there is uncertainty on the continuity of studies …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s coffee export volumes surged by 22% in 2020 compared to the previous year. The growth has been revealed in the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) monthly report of December 2020. The figures for 2020 indicates that exports for calendar year January 2020 to December …

Kitgum, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | There are mixed reactions from the population in Northern Uganda ahead of the International Criminal Court-ICC verdict on conviction in the case of Former Lord’s Resistance Army Rebel Commander Dominic Ongwen. Ongwen’s judgment has been set for February 4, 2021, at The Hague-based court in …