Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | The biggest cholera vaccine drive in history is under way in Africa aimed at reining in a spate of outbreaks across the continent, the UN and charity alliance Gavi said Monday. More than two million people will receive the oral cholera vaccine as part of …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Justice Catherine Bamugemereire has issued fresh summons for Lands Minister Betty Amongi after she failed to appear on Monday as requested by Uganda’s Commission of Inquiry into land matters. The Chairperson Land Probe Commission Justice Bamugemeire threatened to order for the arrest of the minister if …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Director of Public Prosecutions Mike Chibita has dropped treason charges against nineteen Muslim suspects who have been on remand at Luzira prison since 2014. According to a withdrawal letter dated March 23, 2018, DPP says he is no longer interested in prosecuting the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Management Institute-UMI is designing training modules for addressing poor work ethics, rampant corruption and accountability issues in civil service in Uganda. The training modules will also address concerns of integrity, efficacy and commitment of civil servants in fostering national development. The UMI Vice Chancellor, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A cholera outbreak has hit Uganda’s capital city Kampala. The Ministry of Health has so far confirmed seven cases that are currently undergoing treatment at China-Uganda Friendship Hospital (CUFH), Naguru. Three of these cases are from one family residing in Mpigi District while the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Budget Committee of parliament has approved Shillings 12 billion for compensating of people affected by the development of Amuru Sugar works project. The Lands, Housing and Urban Development Ministry had requested for Shillings 19 billion to compensate the residents in the surveyed area. Gilbert …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The influx of commercial sex workers in the Albertine graben has drawn the attention of Rt. Rev, Samuel Kahuma, the Bishop of Bunyoro Kitara diocese. Bishop Kahuma has in a statement denounced the many commercial sex workers he says have invaded the oil rich Hoima …
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VIDEO: Two injured as four storey building collapses in Buziga Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | Two people on Sunday were injured as four storey building under construction collapsed in Buziga. By press time the Police fire brigade were still searching for any people probably trapped under the debris of a four …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The one-week search for a missing former Monitor Publications senior accountant Abel Katende took a dramatic twist on Sunday when Police found his body in a septic tank at his home in Kasangati, just outside Kampala. His wife Janet Namugenyi Katende and children have now …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Archbishop Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga has named Fr. Dominic Mwebe as the new Parish Priest for Lweza. Mwebe, who is currently at Nansana, will take charge of a parish that lost long serving Parish Priest Fr John Mary Vianney Mugabo,53 early this year. …
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