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Sunday 1.15am: Uganda ??marathon team ▶  Robert Chemonges, Alex Chesakit, Solomon Mutai Sunday 1pm: CLOSING CEREMONY Gold Coast, Australia | THE INDEPENDENT | In the absence of former Olympic and World champion Stephen Kiprotich, Team Uganda will be led by Solomon Mutai as the Commonwealth games conclude with the marathon on …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University political economist, Prof Julius Kiiza, has challenged Ugandan journalists to resist being “useful idiots who parrot the narratives of forces who have formed an alliance of betrayal against the country”. In political jargon, a “useful idiot” is a derogatory term for a person …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Parliament has resolved to set up a select committee to investigate the widespread cases of sexual harassment in educational institutions. The move followed a motion moved by the National Female Youth MP, Anna Adeke Ebaju (Ind.) praying that Parliament investigates the media allegations of sexual …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament sitting on the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee have asked government to borrow up to 600 billion shillings to clear outstanding Court awards. While meeting officials from the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs led by the Justice Minister Kahinda Otafiire, the …

Kampala, Uganda | JOSEPH BAHINGWIRE | As African economies start growing and technological change being the engine of growth, it has become eminent that the conventional system of education that is class based cannot provide skills that can lead to business growth as well as economic development. To sustain growth, Ugandans like most …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy chief coordinator of Operation Wealth Creation Lt. Gen Charles Angina has acknowledged that offseason delivery and the supply of fake and unsuitable inputs has been a major blow to the programme. Implemented by the Uganda Peoples Defence Force-UPDF, under the National Agricultural …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Researchers Ramadhan Ggoobi and Prof Julius Kiiza say for Uganda’s economy to transform into an industrial one the government must take the lead by intervening and investing in strategic areas like manufacturing. The duo were dialoguing with editors and journalists in Kampala under the theme …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo has revealed that he acquitted a suspect in the July 11, 2010 twin bombings in Kampala because one country declined to cooperate with Uganda in investigations. While speaking at the Joan Kagezi Memorial lecture in Kampala on Friday, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Juma Miiro won a bronze medal after losing at the semi final stage in the light flyweight 46-49kg of the on-going on-going 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia. India’s Panghal Amit was in good form on Friday giving the 22-year old Miiro no …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The rise in fuel pump prices across the country is more of an international than a local problem, according to an official from Uganda National Oil Company. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, cited higher global crude prices for the hike in prices though …