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Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parents of children with disabilities in Amuru district have asked leaders to set up a special needs school in the district. Currently, the district has no special needs school with the nearest schools being in neighbouring Gulu district. The district has an estimate of …

Rubanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Nyamweru sub county in Rubanda district are protesting after a contractor abandoned the rehabilitation of Nyakasaazi gravity flow scheme. The gravity flow scheme which serves over 800 households was constructed by the Diocese of Kigezi at 45 million shillings. It was later …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local residents of Amuru are concerned over late reporting to work and wastage of resources by civil servants who still commute from Gulu for work. Amuru district was carved out of Gulu in 2006, 14 years ago. The district with over 1,200 civil servants …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sheikh Sazir Lumala, the Mukono district kadhi is in trouble for forcefully breaking into the Imam’s office at Taqwa mosque in Mukono town. Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson says police intervened after Muslims accused Sheikh Lumala of forcefully breaking into the Imam’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers representing the 37 Chinese facing charges of unlawful possession of wildlife and trading illegally in Uganda have said that the 500 million shillings fine imposed on them is high. This was disclosed by their lawyers led by Jamilu Mujurizi who was on Wednesday briefing …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four Uganda People’s Defense Force-UPDF soldiers accused of assaulting the Mityana district LC 5 chairperson, Joseph Luzige will be tried in an open field court martial. Maj. Gen. Sam Kavuma, the Deputy Commander of the Land Forces disclosed this on Wednesday evening in a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bank of Uganda Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile has warned commercial banks that the central bank may be forced to impose limits on interest rates they can charge on loans. Mutebile, who appears to make a U-turn from an earlier position that banks can charge borrowers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have asked the government to comprehensively resolve the Uganda-Kenya impasse regarding milk exports. Although the Kenya-Uganda milk war came to light in 2010, after Kenya blocked milk from Uganda, it reached a climax in December last year when Kenya slapped a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) party President Jimmy Akena says that they are ready to participate in the 2021 general election despite several challenges posed by the revised roadmap recently issued by the Electoral Commission (EC). UPC becomes the first Opposition political party to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Ugandans who have just returned into the country from overseas are protesting spending more than 14 days in institutional quarantine. A total of 804 Ugandans and legal residents have returned from Afghanistan, India, Southern Africa, Ireland and the United Kingdom among …