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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Rwenzururu Kingdom is rallying its subjects to embrace tree planting as one of the ways to solve the various climatic challenges in the Rwenzori region. The area has suffered extreme weather conditions ranging from drought, storm winds and floods. Kasese suffered devastating floods in …

Njeru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Somali fans turned chaotic after their team lost 3-0 to South Sudan in a Cecafa U-20 Challenge Cup Group C match played at the Njeru based FUFA technical center on Wednesday. The fans shouted at the players and insulted them after the game faulting them …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buganda Kingdom has courted delegates of the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) to invest in different projects in the Kingdom. Led by the Speaker of Johor State in Malaysia, Suhaizan Bin Kaiat, a section of Commonwealth delegates from Canada, Pakistan, Fiji, India, Gambia, Australia and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said that he is in touch with the executives of oil companies and will meet them soon to discuss the current impasse in the sector. Museveni, who was speaking at the 5th Oil and Gas Summit at Serena Hotel in Kampala …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | High Court has blocked the scheduled interviews for Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA. The Assistant Court Registrar for Civil Division of High Court Joy Kabagye issued an interim order blocking the interviews that were supposed to be held on September, 30th. The order was granted following …

  Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hoima District Police Commander Christopher Katumba Kiggundu has been transferred, a few hours to the Hoima district Parliamentary election scheduled for Thursday. According to the transfer message released today, Kiggundu moves from Hoima to the Environmental Protection Police Unit –EPPU. He has been …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party has lodged a complaint against the heavy deployment of military personnel in Hoima district ahead of Thursday’s parliamentary elections. The complaint dated Wednesday, September 25, 2019, was authored by FDC Secretary General Nathan Nandala Mafabi and addressed to the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The existence of informal and unmanned entry points between the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and several other countries, is a hindrance to all efforts to tame the deadly Ebola virus, according to health and immigration officials from the two countries. They observe that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A number of myths and misconceptions attached to cultural beliefs are affecting the fight against infectious diseases in various parts of the country, according to Dr Charles Olara, the Director Curative Services at the Ministry of Health. Olara told Uganda Radio Network that studies …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  More than 100 legislators have been listed as perpetual absentees from meetings that were scheduled in Parliament between the month of July 2017 and May 2018, the second year of the tenth parliament. At least 37 of these missed meetings scheduled all year through.   According …