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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masaka Regional Referral Hospital is on the spot for alleged failure to provide descent accommodation and services to Covid-19 patients in the isolation ward. On Sunday, a female patient in the isolation ward recorded a video that has since gone viral bemoaning the appalling …

Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fort Portal regional blood bank is struggling to operate due to poor funding. During an interview with URN, the director Archbald Bahizi said the blood bank receives only 450 million shillings annually to run its activities yet they have to serve 37 transfusing …

Bushenyi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kasambya County Member of Parliament (MP) Mbwatekamwa Gaffa was released on police bond after spending five hours in custody at the Bushenyi central police station. Mbwatekamwa was arrested shortly after he had donated an ambulance to Kakanju health center III in Kakanju sub county …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Close to 100 boda boda riders and passengers are in custody at different Kampala metropolitan police stations for defying presidential directives. The riders and passengers were arrested from different places for defying President’s directive that boda boda’s should not carry passengers as as way …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Teachers from private schools in Gulu municipality have received a donation of relief food. The food donated by Calvary Chapel and distributed through the Gulu COVID-19 taskforce and was handed over to about 540 teachers on Sunday. The donation was 5 tonnes of maize …

Bushenyi, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Kasambya County MP Mbwatekamwa Gaffa has been arrested in Bushenyi. He was arrested shortly after he had donated an ambulance to Kakanju Health Center III in Kakanju Sub County on Sunday. Mbwatekamwa is among the people who have expressed interest to unseat the Igara …

  Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Uganda’s Ministry of Health has responded to a video critical of how COVID-19 patients are being treated in Masaka, saying what was recorded was a temporary shelter, as they await a well furnished main ward that is being renovated. The patient complained …

Mbale, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The state Minister of ICT and National Guidance, Peter Ogwang has said that the Islamic University in Uganda will be connected on the National Internet Backbone.    Ogwang said this on Friday while visiting the IUIU main campus in Mbale. He was assessing the preparedness …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Electoral Commission, the body tasked with organizing elections in Uganda has said it is misleading to call the 2021 elections scientific.  Speaking to Uganda Radio Network – URN, Jotham Taremwa, the Electoral Commission spokesperson said they wonder where people are getting the term scientific …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Kampala Capital City Authority – KCCA has embarked on a process to renew contracts of the private garbage collecting companies in Kampala. The six months controversial contract extension of Homkline, Nabugabo Updeal and Kampala Solid Waste Management Consortium is set to expire this month. The six …