Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has asked the High Court Land Division to set aside a temporary order suspending the construction of Kabuusu-Bunamwaya-Lweza road. The Deputy Registrar of the Land Division, Flavia Nabakooza issued the temporary orders in response to an application by Rashid Ssenyonjo …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police on Tuesday have fired teargas and live bullets in some parts of Kampala to disperse supporters of People Power movement. In Kamwokya, riot police officers were forced to use teargas to disperse and intercept supporters of several aspirants. The crowds were mobilized by …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Public Prosecutions has filed an application in the International Crimes Division of High Court seeking to protect witnesses in the murder trial of former Assistant Inspector General of Police Andrew Felix Kaweesi. The former Uganda police spokesperson was gunned down together …
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Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Mbarara has awarded 70 million shillings to three interdicted Ishaka-Bushenyi municipal officials for illegal interdiction. The officials are Deus Nuwagaba, municipal senior engineer, Robert Nuwagira, procurement officer and Jackson Muhwezi, the municipal treasurer. Through their lawyers, Ngaruye Ruhindi, Spencer and Company …
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Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 80 people who were displaced by floods in Kanyangeya parish, Kasese district have spent three weeks without food. The parish is adjacent to River Nyamwamba and hosted brick makers more than 20 years ago before the municipal authority banned the activities and allowed …
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Nakaseke, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 14-year-old boy living with HIV/AIDS is stuck at Kiwoko Hospital where he was abandoned by parents during COVID-19 lockdown. The boy was admitted at Kiwoko Hospital after developing HIV related opportunistic infections. He had been abandoned at the grandfather’s home at Wankwale village in …
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Kitgum , Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum Covid-19 task force is to establish a screening centre at a porous border point with South Sudan to fight the spread of COVID-19. The screening centre will be established at Lucom village in Orom Sub County with support from RHITES North Acholi, a …
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Bukiende, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Bukiende Sub County in Mbale district have decided to take matters in their own hands and work on Bukiende-Mbale road. Residents picked up hoes and machetes on Monday afternoon and decided to work on the road that has been in sorry state for …
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Bududa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has allocated Shillings 2.1 billion for the construction of Nakatsi seed secondary school in Bududa district. The money will be used to construct six class room blocks, 2 teacher’s houses, two latrines, library, computer lab, laboratory and playground. The construction works were commissioned over …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Committee on Agriculture want the government to account for funds spent in the fight against locusts. Uganda has spent more than 267 billion shillings in loans and donations to fight locusts that ravaged some parts of East and Central Africa …
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