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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenneth Mugambe, the director budget at the Ministry of Finance, has said some of the targets contained in Uganda’s National Development Plans (NDPs) don’t reflect the reality and fail to consider the political environment they are operating in. Mugambe, who was speaking at the United Nations …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Some of the premature babies who had been admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Kawempe National Referral hospital have been transferred to the Mulago Specialized Maternal and Neonatal hospital. This was revealed in a statement issued on Thursday by the Ministry of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Water and Environment, Sam Cheptoris has been summoned to appear before Parliament and explain the destruction of Bugoma central forest reserve. The Speaker Rebecca Kadaga made the directive on Thursday after Kigulu South MP, Andrew Kaluya raised a matter of national importance concerning …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University Senior law don has tasked Ugandans to prepare for low quality advocates because of the suspension of Pre-entry examinations at Law Development Center-LDC. They argue that the number of students joining LDC for the bar course will be too huge for them to train …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has declined to give 3.4 billion shillings to youth leaders. The over 342 youth leaders from different districts who had converged at Dams’ Water Stadium in Jinja on Wednesday asked Museveni to give them 10 million Shillings each to foot their lodge expenses and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The body of the late Mary Lawinyo Luwum, widow of former Archbishop of the Church of Uganda Janani Luwum on Thursday lay in State in Parliament where MPs and public paid her their last respects. Mary Luwum, 93, died on Tuesday, August 6th after a battle …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 200 residents from three villages Nabbale sub county in Mukono district are in fear of eviction from their homes. The affected residents are from Makukuba, Kabulo and Nkulagirira villages. They claim that businessman; Nicholas Kabagambe has asked them to vacate their homes claiming …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Lamwo district have faulted Uganda National Roads Authority [UNRA] over failure to repair Madi-Opei-Agoro road. The murram road stretches 15 kilometers through the villages of Oriang in Madi-Opei Sub County, Ywaya and Loremebenge in Agoro sub county. The leaders say the road has not …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has directed officials from the Ministry of East African Community Affairs to avail a list of subscription fees paid to different regional organizations that Uganda subscribes to. Led by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Edith Mwanje, the officials had appeared before PAC-Central …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The need for a holistic review of the 1995 constitution dominated a meeting organized by the coordinating team of the Uganda National Dialogue in Gulu district on Wednesday. Participants asked the team to root for a constitutional review noting that some of the articles give the …