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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has challenged an application by the Rwenzururu King, Charles Wesley Mumbere, who battling terror charges, seeking to relax his bail terms. Judge Eva Luswata of the international Crimes Division of High Court released Mumbere on bail in January 2017. She however, restricted Mumbere’s …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Railway Corporation-URC has embarked on a five year plan to revive the meter gauge railway. Charles Kateeba, the executive Director, URC, says the US$ 340M plan to revive the meter gauge railway is funded by the European Union. He led a team of …

Woman wrongly convicted of spreading HIV released Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | During the Christmas holiday of 2018, Sylvia Komuhangi went on a tour in northern Uganda and decided to visit her friend Grace Anena in Kitgum. It was a visit that would change her life. And her life …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Cabinet has approved the National Alcohol Control Policy. The decision was taken Monday during a cabinet meeting at State House in Entebbe. The decision was communicated to the press on Tuesday by Ssubi Kiwanuka the Public Affairs Officer International Relations at Uganda Media Centre. The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has lashed at the opposition for promoting hate speech against the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM government, saying Ugandans continue voting for his government because it has done a lot to transform Uganda. Museveni made the remarks while campaigning for Harriet Mugenyi …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Shandana Gulzar Khan, the Pakistan’s Federal Parliamentary Commerce Secretary is the new chairperson of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians-CWP. She replaces Malaysia’s Dr Dato Noraini who has been CWP Chairperson since 2016. Shandana was announced winner on Tuesday following a vote at the ongoing 64th Commonwealth …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 294 billion shillings is needed annually to capitalize the Uganda Biodiversity Fund for the conservation of nature across the country. The endowment, a brainchild of the Rotary Mission Green initiative, seeks to support national and community-based institutions and individuals involved in protecting and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Opposition leaders have rallied the people of Bunyoro region to denounce President, Yoweri Museveni and his ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party for alleged incompetence. The opposition leaders made the appeal while campaigning for Asinansi Nyakato alias Kamanda, the Forum for Democratic Change- FDC party …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Female Members of Parliament with disabilities are seeking for the amendment of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Constitution to institute an organ for addressing welfare of parliamentarians with disabilities. This was during a session by Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) Conference chaired by Nakaseke South MP …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Business came to stand still for several hours in Hoima town as police and the Army battled opposition supporters led by Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, the Kyadondo East Member of parliament. Kyagulanyi emerged from nowhere to the middle of Hoima town at around …