Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 10 million people across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique have been impacted by the 9.4 million euros funding through the Aga Khan Development Network Eastern Africa Regional COVID-19 Response Programme that is set to officially come to an end in June 2023. The project, …
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Maracha, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A senior four student at Maracha High Secondary School in Maracha District was on Saturday knocked dead at Nyoro trading center along the Arua-Koboko-Oraba Highway. Samuel Adriko was knocked by a speeding motor vehicle registration number UBK 049L on Saturday, near Nyoro primary school in …
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Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) has arrested four people suspected to have orchestrated the shooting to death of a lawyer working with IBC Advocates Ronnie Mukisa. He was trailed and shot dead on May 31st at his home at Kitiko-Birongo village, Ndejje Division of …
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Kampala, Uganda | TE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education has decided to suspend the registration and licensing of new nursing and midwifery institutions across the country. Dr. Safinah Musene Kisu, the commissioner in charge of health training at the Ministry of Education said following concern about the influx of nursing …
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Kampala, Uganda | TE INDEPENDENT | Forty-five governments from around the world including Uganda have endorsed doubling the average global rate of energy efficiency improvements by the end of the decade. They pledged to support stronger policy action and prioritize investment in a ‘crucial decade’ for energy and climate targets. They …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The President’s Initiative on the four-acre farming approach will be part of the youth skilling centers in the country. The four-acre approach or model aspires to have a farmer earning up to one hundred million shillings from a four-acre piece of land. According to Museveni’s …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said that the government has no money to address the demands of Luwero residents. Yesterday the country marked Heroes’ Day in commemoration of the National Resistance Army heroes that were executed during the 1981-1986 war. Luwero and Nakaseke were the epicenter …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces -UPDF in Somalia have told Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba that the recent attack by Al-Shabaab which left 54 soldiers killed resulted from mistaking them for farmers in their gardens. Al-Shabaab overrun UPDF base at Buulo-Mareer on May 26 at 5am. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kalita Bus Company abruptly abandoned its commuter passenger operations along the Northern bypass hardly a year after. The company, which was using electric buses built by Kiira Motors Corporation started operations along the route around late August and early September last year. There was excitement …
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Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three village chairpersons in Kotido have been arrested for illegally issuing letters to the cattle dealers at Kanawat cattle market. The chairpersons are Francis Chulo, the LCI of Naoyakiong village in West Division, Samuel Amedo, LCI of Lodoket village in Loletio sub-county, and Lopusakou Loupe, …
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