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Kagadi hospital stuck with unclaimed body

Kagadi, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Management of Kagadi General Hospital is stuck with a body of yet to be identified man.       A nurse at Kagadi General Hospital who spoke to URN on condition of anonymity since she is not authorized to speak to the press says the …

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Drought, cattle rustling affect livestock prices in Karamoja

Karamoja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  The persistent drought and resurgence of cattle rustling have affected the livestock market in the Karamoja region. The price of an animal weighing 100-kilograms has fallen from one million Shillings in November 2020, to 600,000 Shillings today. The drop in animals prices in the region …

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Street gang members, bar owners arrested in a crackdown in Gulu

 Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  | Gulu police have arrested dozens of street gang members and bar owners for flouting the Standard Operating Procedures-SOPs put in place to contain the spread of COVID-19. The operations carried conducted on Saturday and Sunday night saw the arrest of 15 managers, their staff and …

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is WTO Director-General

WTO members made history February 15, 2021 when the General Council agreed by consensus to select Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria as the organization’s seventh Director-General Washington, US | THE INDEPENDENT | When she takes office on March 1, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will become the first woman and the first African to …

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Police stuck with bodies of Bunyangabu fuel tanker accident

Fort Portal, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  Rwenzori West police are stuck with the bodies of two of the four people who died in the fuel tanker accident in Bunyangabu district on Friday. The accident occurred after a South Sudanese registered fuel tanker Reg. No. SSD 558S destined for Kasese district …

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