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Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hoima police have arrested two more suspected vehicle thieves. This brings to five, the number of suspects arrested for vehicle theft in Hoima city. The suspects whose identities have been withheld by the police for fear of jeopardizing police investigations were arrested from Kibaati cell …

Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district has reported five new cases of nodding syndrome, a decade after the last cases were registered. Joe Otoo, the coordinator of nodding syndrome in Labongo Akwang sub-county, says the cases were registered in Abudere and Labworormor villages in Pajimo parish, Labongo Akwang sub-county, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni absolutely said nothing during his televised address on the economic situation in the country according to his longtime rival, Rtd Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, the former Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party president. This comes just hours after the president Museveni addressed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The rebel Allied Democratic Forces-ADF have scaled down their attacks against the people of Eastern DR. Congo, the Operation Shujja sector III commander, Col. Denis Wandera Wanyama has revealed. Operation Shujja sector III was created in April 2022 to block the fleeing of ADF rebels …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kiira region has intensified the search for Shaban Malore’s killers, with the arrest of his seven brothers on Monday bringing the total number of those arrested to ten. The suspects are being detained at different police stations within Jinja city. Malore was shot …

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hoima district roads committee has ordered the Chief Administrative Officer-CAO to recover Shillings 20 million from the former district engineer, Julius Ssentamu. The was meant for the rehabilitation of 15km Kakindo-Nyamirima road in Kyabigambire sub-county. The Hoima District Committee chairperson and Bugahya County Member of …

Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Business is paralyzed in Kotido district following the killing of the Napumpum sub-county LCIII chairperson Paul Lowok. He was gunned down by suspected Karamojong rustlers. Joseph Lokiru, a resident of Napumpum told URN that the deceased was drinking together with his friends on Sunday when he …

Uganda Veterinary Association team on surveillance in Elgon region Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Veterinary authorities in Manafwa district have imposed a temporal quarantine following the outbreak of anthrax in Bududa district. One person has since died and thirteen others hospitalized after eating meat of dead animals suspected to …

Buliisa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several people facing forceful eviction from their ancestral land in Buliisa are accusing their tormentors of branding them as Congolese nationals. The affected people say that the majority of the land grabbers refer to them as Congolese despite the fact that they have occupied the …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Acholi cultural leaders are discouraging their subjects from fundraising for traditional marriage, saying it is behind the increasing cases of divorce in the sub-region. In the past in the Acholi tradition, a man was dependent on the leaders and elders of his lineage for marriage …