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Scores feared dead, property destroyed in Kiteezi landfill collapse

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Scores of people are feares dead after garbage from a section of the Kampala Capital City Authority Landfill in Kiteezi buried houses, people and livestock this morning. City authorities say that the landfill collapsed after a structural failure in waste mass. While several bodies have …

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EACOP Protest: Police arrest 47 University students

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have arrested 47 students from different Universities in a foiled Anti-EACOP protest. They were marching to Parliament and NEMA. The protestors, from Kyambogo, Makerere and Kampala International Universities, who had gathered at Wampewo Avenue, were surrounded before marching to parliament this afternoon. These, carrying placards …

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Guesthouse manager stabbed to death, police hunt for suspects

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Hoima are hunting for a group of people who stabbed a Guesthouse manager to death. The deceased has been identified as Cleophas Mwesige 30, a manager at Colleague Guesthouse and a resident of Nyamasoga village, Kigaga parish in Kabaale sub-county, Hoima district. …

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Districts to get community hospitals in new health reforms

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has introduced a new reform in the health sector to uplift the status of health centre IVs to community hospitals. This was revealed by the Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja during the plenary sitting on Thursday, 08 August 2024, chaired by Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa. …

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2 journalists, 2 others arrested for inciting violence in Kabale

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two journalists in Kabale have been arrested for inciting violence.  Job Namanya Apuuli, the New Vision Kigezi Bureau chief, and Obed Kankiriho of Daily Monitor were arrested on Thursday at around 11:40 pm. They were arrested alongside Charlotte Murungi Kemigisha, former National Resistance Movement (NRM) party …

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Most of Museveni money for Mbarara SACCO vanishes

Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  An audit report on the operations of Mbarara Central Market Vendors Savings Cooperative Society has found that part of the money donated by President Yoweri Museveni can not be traced. The SACCO received sixty million shillings from the president as a donation for startup …

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Inmate collapses and dies in Hoima prison

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An inmate at Hoima Prison has collapsed and died.   The deceased has been identified as Stephen Mbabazi 38, a resident of Bujumbura East in Hoima City. Mbabazi who was on remand on charges of murder collapsed and died on Thursday at 9 a.m. Mbabazi …

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