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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & PPU | President Yoweri Museveni has stressed that the African continent that lacked unity in the past, has now woken up after the industrial revolution and will not miss out on the digital revolution. He said Africans will now be part of global trade …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Parliamentary health committee has directed an immediate stop in Hepatitis B vaccination by private health facilities. This after it emerged that there were fake Hepatitis B vaccines on the market with the National Drug Authority (NDA) impounding the counterfeit vaccines from hospitals in Kampala and …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | A group of civil society organizations under their umbrella group, Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) are concerned about government’s failure to implement the recommendations in the Auditor General’s (AG) reports documents over the years. The group, headed by the Executive Director, Julius Mukunda, said …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Circumstance under which a member of the cabin crew of an Emirates aircraft  fell out through the emergency door of a parked plane at Entebbe Airport today is being investigated. She fell off an Emirates Boeing 777 flight #EK730 and was rushed to a …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Voters in Jinja East go to the polls Thursday to elect a new Member of Parliament in a hotly contested by-election. The seat fell vacant in January following a Court of Appeal ruling that upheld an earlier ruling by the Jinja High Court which overturned …

Kampala,Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Nakawa Magistrates Court Wednesday further remanded veteran journalist Rev. Isaac Bakka Onzima who is charged with treason and concealment of treason to Luzira prison. He will return to court on 28th March. Bakka is attached to Nile FM in the Northern Uganda district of Gulu. The …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | A Ugandan Member of Parliament has apologized for comments in support of men beating their wives which sparked condemnation across the political spectrum. Onesimas Twinamasiko, the Bugangaizi East Mp from the western region district of Kakumiro Wednesday made a groveling apology in a personal statement …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Buganda Road Court Tuesday threatened to dismiss a case of offensive communication against two local Musicians; accused of disturbing the peace of President Museveni, since no witness is willing to testify to this effect. David Mugema and Jonathan Muwanguzi are alleged to have sung and produced a song titled “Mzee …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) Tuesday appealed the High court’s recent decision that directed the Corporation to pay former opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Dr. Kiiza Besigye 80 million shillings as damages, for refusing to run his Presidential Campaign advert messages in 2011. Last month, Justice Margret Oguli-Oumo …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (AGF) has entered into a re- guarantee transaction of up to $74 million with GuarantCo to increase its guarantee capacity for SME financing on the continent. The new financing will enable AGF to support larger …