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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security officers have today arrested Paul Mubiru, the passenger who sold grasshoppers, locally known as nsenene, aboard Uganda Airlines flight 446 on Friday. According to three passengers who traveled with Mubiru aboard Uganda Airlines flight 445 from Dubai, the trader was arrested by immigration officers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government Chief Whip Thomas Tayebwa has said that government is in the process of enacting tougher legislation to curb sexual offenses in the country. Tayebwa indicated that the new law will be jointly considered with the ongoing bail reforms that the government is currently …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have disagreed with members of the Landlord and Developers Association over the currency of rent payment, with MPs standing their ground on the Uganda shilling. The association led by its chairperson, Godfrey Kirumira, had appealed to the Committee on Physical Infrastructure to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Professor Waswa Balunywa, the Principal Makerere University Business School, has stung Makerere university management on their failure to make the praised university impactful in the community despite the enormous resources at hand. Prof Balunywa made the remarks on Thursday afternoon during a stakeholders mobilization event …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legislators on the Committee of Foreign Affairs have tasked the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) to engage more stakeholders on the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The committee wants UHRC to establish why Uganda has taken a slow pace in …

Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Mbarara have arrested a man for allegedly dealing in fake currencies. Godfrey Kazinda was arrested on Thursday and found with fake 46,200 US Dollars and 2.5 million Shillings. The Rwizi Region Police Spokesperson Samson Kasasira, says Kazinda was arrested last year in …

Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thousands of people occupying land owned by the Uganda Railway Corporation-URC in Mityana district have been given up to March to vacate or be forced out. In April, the URC management issued a 6 months notice requiring all the occupants to vacate the railway land …

 Umeme concession talks limits capital mobilization efforts Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least eight out of 10 Ugandans want the electricity sector to undergo some kind of reform with a hope that this will improve service delivery, according to a mini-survey. The poll survey featured 161 high net-worth individuals, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Monica Musenero has defended the cost of mice that are going to aid the process of developing a Covid-19 vaccine in Uganda. Musenero who is facing a parliamentary investigation over the management of 31 billion Shillings initially …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It was a normal Wednesday morning when Aisha Nanfuma, a student pursuing a bachelor’s degree of science in statistics at Kyambogo University, left her hostel in Banda and headed to campus for lectures, only to be denied entry into the University. Nanfuma had dressed in …