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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | New Zealand-based software house; Seequent, has unveiled a Geoscience data portal, that aims to improve the geoscience understanding of Jinja and Mbarara district in Eastern and Western Uganda. The portal makes geoscience data freely available to encourage investment. The primary aim is to encourage …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  With a just a month away to the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE, Uganda National Examinations Board-UNEB has stepped up efforts to sensitise school authorities against examination malpractice.   The vice, which has increasingly become part of Uganda’s education system, is attributes to various factors including commercialization of …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Chinese International Construction Company [CICCO] has won the contract to construct Kabale Central Market.  The contract was signed on Tuesday by Ben Kamugisha, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government in Kampala. According to the Memorandum of Understanding, construction of the market will cost …

Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | Land officials implicated in the alleged fraudulent land transactions in Jinja district must personally be held to account for their actions, Lands’ Minister Betty Amongi Ongom has told the Land Commission of Inquiry. Amongi on Tuesday said that the registrars must be subjected to carry their …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament was on Tuesday released from Kasese Central Police Station without any charges. Zaake together with eleven youths from Kasese were arrested on Tuesday afternoon at Bamboocha Gardens Resort where they were having a meeting. Kasese Municipality Member of Parliament Robert …

Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | The Investment State Minister, Evelyn Anite has written to the Justice Catherine Bamugemereire of Land Commission to investigate the land purchase by Uganda Free Zones Authority in Wakiso district. Anite says the land, which cost taxpayers Shillings 7.4bn, has encumbrances, which makes transfer of ownership to …

Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans seeking to win Parliamentary seats in the 2021 general elections will have to spend between 500 million to 1 billion Shillings, a new report has estimated. Published on Tuesday in Kampala by the Alliance for Finance Monitoring (ACFIM), an NGO that focuses on addressing commercialization …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The National Resistance Movement-NRM party lawyer, Kiryowa Kiwanuka has told the constitutional court that there is still chance for any of their members to challenge president, Yoweri Museveni for the party card ahead of the 2021 polls. He was responding to application filed by 11 …

Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | The rampant stock out of Magnesium Sulphate, a drug prescribed for pregnant mothers with preeclampsia is not due to lack of drugs at National Medical Stores or at health facilities. Morris Seru, the Commissioner Pharmacy Division at the Ministry of Health says that many health facilities …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AFP | A day after Uganda’s Finance Minister Matia Kasaija warned about the use of crypto-currencies, European governments are asking questions about Libra, forcing Facebook’s partners to reconsider. Mastercard, Visa and other financial partners being enlisted to oversee Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Libra are having second thoughts …