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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Education and Sports Ministry is considering vigorous reforms into the vocational professional’s framework to improve the competences of trainees. Dr. Safina Kisu Museene, the Commissioner Business, Technical and Vocational Education and Training-BTVET in the Education Ministry, says the proposed adjustments are intended to produce …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Absa Bank Uganda has officially received its license from Bank of Uganda, dropping the Barclays brand tag. Absa Uganda interim boss Nazim Mahmood together with other bank’s executive received the license from the Central Bank on Monday. Mahmood told reporters that “there will be no …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Uganda Law Society-ULS has withdrawn its application challenging Rwanda Government’s decision to close its Chanika and Gatuna borders. The application was withdrawn on Monday by ULS lawyers led by Simon Peter Lukuya, before the panel of three Judges of the East African Court of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Rights activists have called for stringent measures to safeguard children against neglect. In Gulu, the number of children being neglected by their parents is on the raising concerns among the public and rights activists that local law enforcement authorities and police are failing to contain …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Acholi religious leaders have mourned Bishop Emeritus of Kitgum Diocese, Benjamin Ojwang, who died on Monday. Bishop Emeritus Ojwang, 67, succumbed to high blood pressure and diabetes. In September, he suffered a stroke. The Bishop of Kitgum Diocese, Rev. Wilson Kitara, who served under Ojwang’s …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Masaka Elders Savings and Credit Cooperative Society – SACCO Limited has lost at least 399.7 million shillings to fraud, a special financial audit has revealed. An audit report by Felbright and Company auditors read before the SACCO’s special general meeting convened in Masaka has revealed …

 Lamwo, Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Uniports erected by the Uganda Police Force to accommodate officers at Lokung Sub county headquarters police post in Lamwo District are lying idle. The four Uniports were erected shortly after Lokung Sub County headquarter was relocated to Kila Kony Paco Village in Licwa Parish …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Tension was high in the city center on Monday afternoon during a joint operation by the Field Force Police –FFP, Crime Intelligence –CI and Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID against scrap dealers suspected of selling stolen copper wires from electrical installations and masts. Dressed in blue …

Nyagatare, Rwanda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The bodies of two Ugandan nationals who were shot dead by Rwandan security operatives will repatriated for decent burial on Tuesday.  John Bosco Tuhirirwe and Job Byarushaga, both residents of Kamwezi Sub-county were shot dead by Rwandan security at Tabarwe sector in Nyagatare district in …

 Kamuli, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Kamuli are police struggling with a high number of mob justice cases. The latest cases occurred in the past one week where three people were killed in three separate incidents. The Busoga North Police Spokesperson, Michael Kasadha, identifies the deceased as 40-year-old Daaka Kibito, a …