NEWS

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The ongoing COVID-19 lockdown which led to the closure of schools may worsen the already waning learning outcomes in Uganda.   This is according to Dr Mary Goretti Nakabugo, the Country Coordinator of Uwezo Uganda, an initiative that aims to improve competencies in literacy and numeracy …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Cargo drivers who are stranded along the Uganda-DRC border in Bwera have decried the lack of food and other sanitary services in Kasese District.   The drivers have been stuck for days along the Kasese-Bwera road after flood-driven debris piled at Mpondwe bridge that connects Uganda …

Kitgum, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Gulu Archdiocese has begun supplying high yielding cassava cuttings to farmers in Kitgum district as part of the presidential initiative for cassava commercialization in Northern Uganda.   At least 7,763 bags of Narocas-1 cassava cuttings will be delivered to the selected farmers in the district by …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Ministry of Education and Sports is planning to set up a factory to manufacture sanitary pads that will be distributed at no cost to all girls in school across the country. This will be in implementation of a presidential pledge to provide sanitary pads to …

Entebbe, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The MV Kalangala Ship has returned today after two months of mandatory serving in Tanzania. The ship which left for Tanzania on February 9 for its annual servicing is now stationed at Port Alice near Nakiwogo landing site in Entebbe. The landing site has now …

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of fishermen operating at the shores of Lake Albert have appealed to the government to stay the impending closure of illegal landing sites until after the COVID-19 lockdown. The government, two weeks ago announced plans to close more than 200 illegal landing sites …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s first information and communications technology manufacturing and assembling factory, Simi technologies has this morning sent the first batch of 18,000 locally made phones to Morocco. Located in Namanve industrial park, Simi technologies owned by Chinese Electronics firm ENGO Holdings Uganda Limited exported smartphones and …

Kumi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Watermelon farmers in Kumi district have run out of option on what to do with their crop in the garden. The melons are ready for harvest; some are rotting but their market continues to be disrupted by the COVID-19 lockdown. For some farmers, watermelon had …

Pallisa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pallisa district has failed to recruit teachers and health workers for the past three years. The Pallisa District Chief Administrative officer Joseph Mayila Mukasa says that the district last conducted interviews three years ago before Butebo district was carved out of Pallisa. Mukasa says that …

Buwate, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Buwate in Wakiso district say their lives are at risk because of what appears like an illicit gas refilling activity in a residential area. They want the National Environment Management Authority to close the facility whose activity is carried out in a heavily …