Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | United Nation agency for women – UN Women will inject 370 million shillings to support women in Uganda. The support will be extended through the Ministry Gender Labor and Social Development for the years 2019 and 2020. It will support women from 14 selected …
Read More »Kadaga slams International community over refugees
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has criticized the international community for failing to fulfill financial pledges made during the Kampala Solidarity Summit on Refugees, two years ago, in support of refugees in Uganda. The pledges recorded during the summit included USD100, 000 from Equatorial …
Read More »Court stops forced leave imposed on division town clerk, treasurer
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | High court in Kabale has issued a temporary injunction blocking the forced leave imposed on James Twinamatsiko, the Principal Assistant Town Clerk in Charge of Southern Division in Kabale Municipality and his treasurer, Charity Tushemereirwe. The Kabale Town Clerk, Joseph Monday sent the duo on …
Read More »Jopadhola to celebrate 20 years of crowning Kwar Adhola Moses Owor
Tororo, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG | Jopadhola in eastern Uganda are today marking the 20th anniversary of the crowning of Kwar Adhola Moses Stephen Owor with a grand celebration at Achielet in Tororo. Twenty years ago on on the 7th August 1999, Owor was installed as the cultural leader of the …
Read More »Daily nut eating improves sexual function in men
It depends on a complex interaction between nerve cells and blood vessels | THE INDEPENDENT | Men participating in a clinical trial who added two handfuls of nuts a day to their regular diet reported improvements in sexual function. The 14-week trial compared a group of men who added a …
Read More »Misdiagnosis, low case detection hurting pediatric TB treatment
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Misdiagnosis and low case detection among children is hindering Tuberculosis treatment in Ntungamo district, according to health authorities. Children are a soft landing spot for Tuberculosis once exposed due to low immunity. However, the challenge is worsened by misdiagnosis with most of the infected …
Read More »Museveni eulogizes Kavuma
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thousands of mourners descended on Jjungo-Bukuya village in Wakiso district on Tuesday to send-off the late Godfrey Kaaya Kavuma, the former Katikiro of Buganda Kingdom. The vice President, Edward Sekandi, who represented, President, Yoweri Museveni, eulogized the late Kavuma as one of the greatest patriots …
Read More »Electoral commission boss welcomes proposed electoral reforms
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Electoral Commission Chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama has welcomed the proposed electoral reforms, saying they will ease the operations of the commission and ensure a better electoral process. According to Justice Byabakama, the Commission was consulted and made some inputs in the proposed electoral reforms. …
Read More »Standard Chartered Bank new digital app to target social media users
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sensing that more people are spending their time scrolling through their social media platforms and hardly want to be interrupted, Standard Chartered bank has devised means to find them there. The bank has added a feature SC Keyboard on their digital app, SC Mobile, …
Read More »MPs task Attorney General on Supreme Court recommendations
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee has directed Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukutana to present reforms that were recommended by the Supreme Court since 2001. The Committee Chairperson Markson Jacob Oboth-Oboth made the directive on Tuesday during an interface with Mwesigwa who appeared alongside Justice …
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