NEWS

    Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Kasirye Gwanga is dead. According to family and military sources, Gwanga breathed his last at Nakasero Hospital this morning where he was admitted a few weeks ago with a life threatening ailment. Last month, The Uganda People’s Defence Forces has come out to deny reports …

Lamwo, Uganda| AFP |  THE INDEPENDENT | South Sudanese refugees have continued to sneak into Uganda, and secretly settling at Palabek Refugee Settlement Camp in Lamwo district, despite a ban on cross border movement during the current countrywide lockdown.  This disclosure was made by the Palabek settlement refugee welfare council (RWC) …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has delivered drugs and disinfectants worth 12 million Shillings to Moroto as Cholera cases continue to rise in the district. The consignment was delivered to Loputuk health centre III by the National Medical Stores (NMS). According to the in-charge Phillip …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has rejected a loan of 1.4 trillion shillings ($400m) accusing the Ministry of Finance of lack of seriousness. This is part of the 3.5 trillion Shillings request that the Minister of Finance Matia Kasaija sought in January. Of this, 596 billion Shillings …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Opposition Forum for Democratic Change-FDC has issued a revised roadmap from its party primaries. The FDC president, Patrick Amuriat Oboi told journalists at their headquarters in Najjanankumbi that the party managed and resolved last week to proceed with their primaries in preparation for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government will on Thursday announce the removal of Value Added Taxes on various products including liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and the processed milk. The announcement is one of the measures contained in the 2020/21 financial year budget with an aim to boost the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Prisons Services have said that they have forwarded all the particulars of all the people in their custody for the violations of the guidelines on the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19). Speaking today at the Media Centre in Kampala, Frank Biane, the …

Nakasongola, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fishermen in Nakasongola district have protested the enforcement of guidelines that will limit them to using boats measuring 28 feet. Fishing across Lake Kyoga was suspended indefinitely by the Fisheries Protection Unit and the districts under their umbrella Lake Kyoga Integrated Management Organisation in …

Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Beneficiaries of the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment-SAGE in Katakwi district want the government to reconsider paying them through mobile money platforms. Through the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment, the government pays senior citizens above 65-years of age a monthly stipend of 25,000 Shillings. …

Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The 3rd Division of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF has documented 114 officers for retirement late this month. They were documented during the ongoing retirement documentation exercise held at Bumageni Army Primary school in Bugema Mbale district on Sunday. The 20-day exercise undertaken by …