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Kagadi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Kagadi have arrested three people for allegedly killing an LCI chairperson. The suspects are Deo Tumusiime, John Alituha and Patrick Mukonyezi, all residents of Buhumuliro village in Buhumuliro sub county. It is alleged that on Wednesday, the three suspects waylaid Geoffrey Byamukama, …

Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mityana municipality council meeting on Thursday flopped after councilors protested the continued imprisonment of National Unity Platform-NUP supporters. The angry councilors, the majority from NUP note that a number of people were arrested and imprisoned during the 2021 campaigns and election period on false …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Magistrates Court in Mbale has granted bail to Phillip Monk, the proprietor and Managing Director of Mbale Schools Brass Band who had been remanded to Maluku prisons on charges of offensive communication. Monk was granted a cash bail of two million Shillings when he …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kitgum district security committee has forcefully evicted pastoralists from Orom East sub-county. The operation was in line with the second phase of the eviction code-named Lainisha Kilimo Na Mifungu, which was flagged off by the State Minister of Internal Affairs Gen. David Muhoozi in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Building cohesion and having coherent messages in Parliament is the best way to push the opposition agenda through Parliament, the Leader of the Opposition in the Zambian Parliament Brian Mundubile has told Ugandan legislators. A section of MPs led by the Leader of Opposition, Mathias …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least six directors of Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) are free to wear the force’s newly introduced rank of Assistant Commissioner General of Prisons. For years, Commissioner of Prisons has been the highest rank, after which one would be promoted to serve as Director. But …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An estimated 54,559 persons aged 80 years and above cannot access the Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment (SAGE) because they do not have National Identification Cards, according to a survey carried out by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. Data from the gender …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government of Uganda has explained that the decision to stay away from the International Coffee Agreement (ICA) extension was inevitable for the good of the local industry, a position agreed to by some private sector players. The ICA is an instrument for international cooperation …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A resident of Kekubo village in Kabale municipality has been sentenced to four-month imprisonment for disrupting the burial service of the fallen Bank of Uganda Governor, Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile. Mutebile, 72, was buried on January 30, at his ancestral home in Muruhita-Rwakatojo village in Northern …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni will launch the Parish Development Model (PDM) on 26 February 2022 in the eastern district of Kibuku. The launch of Shs 490 billion PDM meant to eradicate poverty through execution of development activities at the parishes, was announced by the Minister of …