Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former presidential candidate Rtd Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye has demanded that government immediately opens its borders with other countries citing irrelevancy in their continued closure in the fight against spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Besigye gave an address in his capacity as president of the …
Read More »Patients sharing general ward with dead bodies in Aduku health center IV
Kwania, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Patients at Aduku health center IV in Kwania district have no choice but share a general ward with dead bodies due to lack of a mortuary. Aduku health center IV, a Kwania health sub district hospital that serves Kwania and patients from the neighboring Kole, …
Read More »PWDs decry prohibitive accessibility to financial banking services
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thirty five year old Fazira Kawuma is blind and cannot read what is displayed within banking halls in order to access her money. She always needs a helper to assist her but faces challenges at banks because the helpers are not readily available. Kawuma and …
Read More »2618 teenage pregnancies registered in Kabale in last 7 months
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale district has registered 2618 cases of teenage pregnancies in the last seven months. According to statistics from health department of the district, the cases were registered across both private and health facilities between January and July this year from a total of 17309 of …
Read More »DPP, principal judge want Uganda prisons services to manage minor offenders
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Director for Public Prosecutions, Jane Frances Abodo and the Principal Judge, Dr. Justice Flavian Zeija want Uganda Prisons Services to manage child offenders due to the deplorable conditions in the remand homes. Abodo and Zeija made the proposal during the third stakeholders Forum on …
Read More »Eastern region ANT delegates endorse Muntu to run for presidency
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Delegates of the Alliance for National Transformation – ANT in the Eastern part of the country have endorsed Major-General Gregory Mugisha Muntu as the party’s flag bearer for presidency in the 2021 general elections. Muntu was handed the party’s flag and constitution at Forester Gardens …
Read More »Coronavirus: Uganda to begin monoclonal antibodies trial
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan scientists are planning to start a laboratory manufacturing of targeted antibodies that can kill SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19. Dr Bruce Kirenga, a researcher and executive director at the Makerere University Lung Institute told URN in an interview that …
Read More »700 to attend DP delegates conference in Gulu
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police have restricted the number of delegates to attend the Democratic Party-DP National Delegates Conference in Gulu. The two days Conference which is being hosted in Gulu at Sir Samuel Baker Secondary School starts on Saturday and ends on Sunday. Out of the …
Read More »Buganda and Ankole have the best roads- report
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The status of Uganda’s roads report as of June 30, 2020 has been submitted to Parliament and Lango with Karamoja sub-regions come off worst in the number of paved road kilometres. Members of parliament have been relentlessly questioning the criteria followed by the executive …
Read More »Research questions relevance of social media tax
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two years after Uganda introduced a special tax on the access to social media sites, a new survey shows that the move has not achieved what it was meant to. In July 2018, the government introduced a levy of 200 Shillings per day on …
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