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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Moroto government prison has been closed to new inmates after 30 inmates tested positive to Covid-19 on Thursday. All 30 have been evacuated to Jinja isolation centre for treatment while over 200 other inmates have been placed under quarantine. The 30 left Moroto government …

Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Masindi are holding a 24-year-old woman on allegations of defiling five boys. Police has identified the  suspect as Scovia Nyamusana, a resident of Kamurasi cell, Nyangahya division in Masindi district. The victims whose names have been withheld because they are juveniles are …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 33 teenage girls in Acholi are being made pregnant everyday since the lockdown when they stopped going to school. In all so far, a whopping 4,000 girls in the Acholi sub-region have become pregnant in four months of the lockdown an average …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There was chaos in Naguru remand home 2 polling station in the LCV woman councilor NRM primaries after the losing camp refused to be counted. Although the election for other positions was held peacefully at the polling station located in Nakawa division on Friday, …

Kiryandongo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Game rangers attached to Murchison Falls National National Park have arrested a poacher they caught red handed selling baboon meat to travelers along Kampala-Gulu highway in Kiryandongo district. Wilson Kagoro, the community conservation warden at Murchison Falls National Park identifies the suspect as 28-year-old …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Religious leaders have committed to ensuring that their platforms and premises are not used as havens for corruption. They equally committed to pushing for the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Act, 2009 that provides for asset recovery.   The commitment was made at the end of a …

Luweero, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Government Spokesperson Ofwono Opondo has said the attack at his family home on Thursday night was plotted by those opposing the government in order to spread fear among people who vigorously oppose them.  Last night at around 8:30 pm, two unidentified men wearing black …

Isingiro, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  When the NRM party primary elections came to her Kaaro village in Isingiro district, Vastah Aryankwasa was a happy mother of four, safely being provided for by her husband Gordon Muhumuza. At the end of polling day, Gordon lay dead under a pile of stones, …

Luweero, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The late arrival of election officers and low turn up of voters have marred National Resistance Movement (NRM) Primaries in Luweero town . The National Resistance Movement (NRM) is today electing party flag bearers for the position of LC5 Chairperson, District Councillors and City Mayors …

Mbarara, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Late deliver of  voting registers has delayed the kick off of voting in most areas of Mbarara city. Voting that was supposed to kick off at 11:00 Am was delayed by an hour at most polling centres. At Kiswahili All saints church polling station, the …