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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  A group of eight supporters of Forum For Democratic Change (FDC) party have been arrested from Namboole National Stadium. They were picked up by police deployed at the Stadium to prevent the opposition from holding their planned meeting there at about 2pm on Monday, several hours …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several hospitals face termination from serving clients who have health insurance policies after insurance companies accused them of fraud. This comes after The Uganda Insurers Association (UIA)-commissioned a fraud survey in 2018/19 financial year that found wide-spread cheating with hospitals putting in fictitious claims. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Grace Nakimera’s rain water tank started discharging a mixture of dirt and strange living organisms six months after installation in 2017 in Kifumbira village in Kamwkoya, a Kampala suburb. Nakimera says the problem gets worse whenever water levels in the tank reduces with decline in …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Court bailiffs on Monday impounded a vehicle that was being used to distribute Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) papers to schools within Gulu Municipality.    The Pick-Up Double Cabin registration number LG-001117 attached to the Town Clerk`s office was the only vehicle transporting papers to thirty …

Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa is an agricultural economist and board chairman of the Microfinance Support Centre. He also served as the Chairman of the National Planning Authority from 2008 to 2018. Victoria Sekitoleko is the current chairperson of Uganda Agribusiness Alliance (UAA) and former minister of agriculture. Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | High court has blocked the trial of Kawempe South Member of Parliament, Mubarak Munyagwa for alleged corruption in the Anti-corruption court. The Assistant Registrar of the High Civil Division, Joy Kabagye issued the interim order following an application filed by Munyagwa’s lawyers led by …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Examinations Board – UNEB has disowned the purported 2019 Primary Leaving Examination –PLE examination papers that circulated on social media over the weekend. The fake Social Studies and Mathematics papers made rounds on social media on Sunday night. However, UNEB warned parents …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police foiled a procession by journalists who intended to match through the streets of Kampala to the Police headquarters in Naguru, to petition against increased police brutality against media practitioners. The procession comprised personnel subscribing to Uganda Journalists Association (UJA), Uganda Parliamentary Press Association …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unspecified number of Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party supporters are in police custody following a scuffle with police that lasted for fours in Kireka in Kira Municipality yesterday. Trouble started after security blocked a planned FDC party conference at Mandela National Stadium. Heavily armed police …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda`s power distribution firm, Umeme limited has said that the Northern region will continue experiencing power outages. The region has been experiencing persistent power outages for over thirty years. But Umeme has attributed the problem to the single source of power transmission and vandalism …