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Kapchorwa, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A teenage girl is battling for her life at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital after being shot in the neck in an operation involving Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF and Local Defense Unit personnel in Kapchorwa district. The injured is Sandra Chemutai, a resident of Litei …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority – KCCA has collected over 70 street children from Kampala city to provide them shelter at Nakivubo Blue Primary School. The KCCA team headed by Kampala Central Division Mayor Charles Sserunjogi was part of the team that collected the children …

🔹 April 5 – 4 new cases – TOTAL 52 🔸 April 4 – 0 new cases – TOTAL 48 🔹 April 3 – 3 new cases – TOTAL 48 🔸 April 2 – 1 new case – TOTAL 45 🔹 March 31 – 11 new – TOTAL 44 Kampala, …

Masaka, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s directive that restricted use of private and public passenger vehicles has turned into a high-earning opportunity to bicycle mechanics in Masaka district who are now profiteering from the ban.  In his address recently President Museveni asked people to stop driving public …

Lira, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Lira Diocese announced that the holy ritual of baptism will not take place on Easter Day following the outbreak of the COVID -19. Rt. Rev. Sanctus Lino Wanok, the Bishop of Lira Diocese announced on Sunday that this year, there will be no baptism on …

Karamoja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  A large swarm of desert locusts estimated to cover 100, 000 acres have entered into Uganda and settled in the districts of Karamoja sub region in north eastern Uganda.    According to the Amudat District Senior Agricultural Officer, Joseph Marimoi, the locusts entered through Karita …

Luweero, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Bishop of Kasana Luweero Diocese Paul Ssemogerere has condemned the people who are taking advantage during the difficult times of the Coronavirus (COVID -19) pandemic to seek benefits. Bishop Ssemogerere says that benefiting in such a crisis is an evil before God and people …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Business confidence in the country has fallen sharply for the first time since January 2017 as companies come to terms with Coronavirus (COVID -19) wave, a survey has shown. The Purchase Managers Index (PMI) for March 2020, a survey published by Stanbic bank and mainly …

Mbale, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Health workers at Budwale Health Centre III in Mbale district have deserted the facility over failure to travel to work.      Since the ban on both public and private transport in a bid to stop the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID -19), the health …

Mbarara, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Health workers attending to Coronavirus (COVID -19) suspect cases at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital are to be Isolated.  Dr. Celestine Barigye, the Mbarara regional referral hospital Director says medics who  attend to suspected Coronavirus cases will be stopped from going back to their homes because …