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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The supervisor of Saracen Security Company in Kabale has committed suicide. Denis Musinguzi, 29 years, a resident of Bugongi in Northern division, Kabale municipality shot himself dead on Thursday. Brian Ampeire, the Kabale District Police Commander says that Musinguzi shot himself dead in front …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A descending rock has cut off a road connecting lower Bulambuli to the upper belt of the district. The rocks that warped on Monday afternoon have now split into particles which are now strewn across the road at a place called Nairobi in Kamu …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited -UEDCL, says the Achwa 2 hydro-electric power station is ready to generate power for distribution to domestic and commercial end-users in northern Uganda. The 42 megawatts hydroelectric power plant is located in Angagura sub county along the Achwa river …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | South Sudan officials continue to extort money from Ugandan farmers harvesting their crops from a contested land in lokung sub-county, Lamwo district bordering South Sudan. This comes just a month after security personnel from the two countries held meetings to iron out the practices …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defense Force- UPDF recruitment team in Lira has cautioned the political and public leaders in Lango against interfering with the ongoing recruitment process. The UPDF fourth division spokesperson Major Caesar Olweny says that a number of political leaders in the the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga and the Attorney General met the Members of Parliament who were thrown out of Parliament by the Constitutional Court. On 27th December, the Court nullified the election of the MPs from the newly created municipalities on grounds that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The world will need an additional nine million nurses and midwives to achieve the commitment of providing all people with access to health care by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. There are 22 million nurses and two million midwives worldwide, accounting …

The annual celebration was set aside in honour of the martyrdom of 45 young men who converted to Christianity between 1885 and 1887 to the annoyance of the then Kabaka Mwanga II of Buganda, who ordered that they are burnt to death. Every year millions of pilgrims from within and …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The agriculture budget for the 2020/2021 financial year will reduce by 103 billion shillings, following the reduction of funds from donors. This will see the agriculture sector budget allocation fall below the Shs 1 trillion mark it had passed this financial year. In …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers in Manwoko village, in Labongo Amida sub-county, Kitgum district are optimistic to continue as the drought season sets in, following the establishment a modern irrigation scheme in their area. The irrigation scheme which sits on 17 acres of land was set up by …