NEWS

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT, URN & AFP |  A Ugandan activist jailed last year for insulting President Yoweri Museveni, was convicted of cyber harassment of the head of state on Thursday for which she could face a further three years in prison, her lawyer said. The Ugandan university researcher …

Goma, DR Congo | AFP | Rwanda has shuttered its frontier with Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo after a third case of the deadly virus was detected in the border city of Goma, the Congolese presidency said Thursday. The announcement coincided with the first anniversary of an epidemic that has claimed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Producers of baby food have resorted to aggressive marketing in health centers contrary to the WHO Food and Drugs (Marketing of Breast milk regulations 2006) on supplementary foods. The regulations prohibit any form of promotion for the products and the use of health facilities …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday turned away officials from Makerere University Business School (MUBs) for presenting inconsistent Statements of Accounts. MUBS Principal Wasswa Balunywa had led a team of University officials before the committee chaired by Budadiri West MP Nathan Nandala Mafabi …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister for Security Gen. Elly Tumwine has asked for more time to respond to allegations made against him in relation to contempt of Parliament. Gen. Tumwine on Thursday appeared before Parliament’s Rules, Privileges and Discipline Committee investigating allegations of contempt of parliament levelled …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Leader of opposition in Parliament, Betty Aol Ochan has clashed with the Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Simon Mugenyi Byakagaba over the independence of the electoral body in the run up to 2021 general elections. Aol says the Electoral Commission is not independent enough …

BOU, ACI move to work with Refinitiv, further cements Uganda’s efforts to attract long-term foreign direct investments  Johannesburg, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT |  Refinitiv, the Central Bank of Uganda BOU, and the ACI Financial Markets Association of Uganda have announced that they will be working together to strengthen Uganda’s trade …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has allocated 150 billion shillings for salary enhancement of primary school teachers and lecturers in public universities. The salary increments will take effect in the second quarter of this financial year – that is from October. Minister for Public Service Muluri Mukasa told …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The unfulfilled pledge of constructing John Kale Institute of Science and Technology and irregularity in sharing revenue generated from national parks dominated president, Yoweri Museveni’s wealth creation rally in Kisoro district on Wednesday. The rally that took place at Girosora playground in Nyakabande Sub …

Woburn, Massachusetts | USA | THE INDEPENDENT |  Judge Janice W. Howe has dismissed with prejudice a  court case that California based small claims and litigation lawyer Joseph Ssennoga Musoke brought against the Ugandan North America Association (UNAA) in March 2015. The Judge advised UNAA’s Counsel Galen Hair to file a …