⬜ AKII BUA STADIUM ✅ A 20,000-seat main stadium with an athletics track ✅ Two training fields with changing rooms ✅ A 2,000-seat indoor multi-sport arena ✅ A 25-meter semi-Olympic swimming pool ✅ Outdoor courts for basketball, netball, volleyball, and badminton ✅ Parking facilities for 1,000 vehicles Lira, Uganda | …
Read More »Uganda Law Council denies Martha Karua practicing license
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Law Council has declined to grant a practicing license to Kenyan lawyer Martha Karua Wangari, who sought to represent Dr. Kizza Besigye in a controversial case before the Makindye General Court Martial. Dr. Besigye is charged with illegal possession of ammunition and …
Read More »Mumba Kalifungwa: From Absa to Stanbic
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mumba Kenneth Kalifungwa, a seasoned Zambian accountant and corporate executive is poised for the top job at Stanbic Bank Uganda. Currently Managing Director at Absa Bank Uganda, Kalifungwa has been successfully vetted and will be the Chief Executive of Uganda’s largest bank by assets …
Read More »Saboti want to be recognized as a Ugandan tribe
Namisindwa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Saboti, a small community residing in Bukokho and parts of Bumbo Sub-County in Namisindwa, has called on the Parliament of Uganda to expedite the process of officially recognizing them as one of the tribes in the country. Although they have been living in …
Read More »High crime rates in Jinja blamed on non-functional field weighbridges
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The increased cases of criminality in the Jinja and Luuka districts have been attributed to the closure of sugarcane weighbridges. The residents say that the weighbridges that were installed to weigh sugarcane had created a sigh of hope, through extending employment opportunities to youths in the …
Read More »Mount Elgon access cut off after key bridge collapses
Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Access to Mount Elgon National Park via the Mbale-Bubyangu route is now impossible after the collapse of Malenda Bridge on Sunday. The bridge, located in Bubyangu Sub County, was washed away following heavy rainfall that has affected the region over the past two weeks. …
Read More »Church appeals to Katikkiro over land disputes
Bishop Mukasa Appeals to Katikkiro Mayiga to Address Children’s Reclamation of Church Land Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kasana-Luwero, Rt. Rev. Lawrence Mukasa, has appealed to the Katikkiro of Buganda Charles Peter Mayiga, to intervene in resolving disputes over land originally …
Read More »DRC, Uganda officials to meet over illegal entries, charges at border
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities from the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC in the Eastern Ituri Province, Mahagi Territory will this month meet Ugandan customs officials over illegal entries and charges at the border. According to the officials, the meeting is aimed at promoting good trading environments and sharing common practices …
Read More »Oxfam wants Uganda Govt to account for US$2.2bn climate finance money
NGO says support for affected people of climate-related disasters in Mt. Elgon, Kasese still very little COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda is the 12th most vulnerable country to climate change out of 192 countries ranked accoridng to a report published in Kampala on Oct.30 by Oxfam, the UK-based global …
Read More »Dismissed UPDF captain loses bid to be released from prison
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala dismissed an application in which Captain Hilman John Bosco Aleper, who was dismissed from the army with disgrace, sought his unconditional release from Kigo Prison, citing a long detention period without trial. Captain Aleper sued the Attorney General in …
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