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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | International Air Ambulance has today concluded a highly successful annual Health Service Providers (HSP) workshop, where strategies to strengthen their insurance practices in the next one year were laid out. Over 400 Health Service Providers (HSP) gathered at hotel Africana on Friday to discuss …
Read More »Gov’t struggling to implement President’s 12 security points
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security agencies are still struggling to implement President Yoweri Museveni’s 12 security points, one year later. In his statement to Parliament on the new wave of kidnaps and murders in the country on Thursday, Internal Affairs Minister Gen. Jeje Odongo said that in order …
Read More »Online bullying on the rise among teens- UNICEF
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new report by the UN Agency for children, UNICEF has shown that one in three young people in 30 countries have been a victim of online bullying, with one in five reporting having skipped school due to cyber bullying and violence. The findings …
Read More »Police hunt for counter-terrorism officer suspected of shooting dead two
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Joint security forces have launched a hunt of unidentified Counter-terrorism – CT policeman suspected to have shot dead two people, Merina Tumukunde and Joshua Ntireho Ruhejera at Entebbe Expressway. A report by police and military teams that arrived at the shooting scene at Nambirigwa …
Read More »Witness contradicts himself in musician Mowzey Radio murder case
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A witness in the murder of musician Moses Ssekibogo alias Mowzey Radio has given contradicting information about the murder suspect Godfrey Troy Wamala. The witness David Ebanget Etoru alias Producer Washington was with Radio on the fateful night at De bar in Entebbe. …
Read More »Contractor distances self from defects on URA tower
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The company that was contracted to construct the Uganda Revenue Authority-URA tower says that the construction was done based on the agreed design and drawings. In a statement issued on Thursday, Seyani Brothers & Company Uganda Limited says that it didn’t construct the tower …
Read More »MPs summon Finance Ministry for dealing directly with FUFA
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of the Committee on Education and Sports want the ministry of Finance led by the Permanent Secretary/Secretary to the Treasury-Keith Muhakanizi to answer why shillings 10 billion was directly advanced to the Federation for Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) and not through the National …
Read More »Karamoja cultural celebrations underway in Amudat
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The 6th Karamoja Cultural celebrations are underway in Amudat district. Karamoja Cultural Day is an annual event celebrated in different districts within Karamoja since 2014. The celebrations commenced on Thursday with arrivals of several participants drawn from Teso, Turkana in Kenya; Toposa and Nyangatom in …
Read More »Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe dies aged 95
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP |Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe with an iron fist from 1980 to 2017, has died aged 95, the country’s president announced Friday. First heralded as a liberator who rid the former British colony of Rhodesia of white minority rule, Mugabe used repression and fear to hold …
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