Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Online retail giant Amazon plans to cut another 9,000 jobs as it seeks to save costs, the BBC reported on March 22. The firm, which employs 1.5 million people worldwide, said the cuts would fall mainly in areas including cloud computing and advertising. It did …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Stanbic Uganda Holdings Limited through its Fintech subsidiary FlyHub, has announced a five-year partnership with Refactory—a training academy that offers alternative industry-led skilling services for the technology sector. The partnership signed on March 22 at SUHL offices in Kampala will help equip local business leaders, …

Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fort Portal Tourism City is likely to miss out on the next phase of funding for the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development Project –USMID due to delayed works. Judith Nabakoba, the Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban development revealed this at the belated …

Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Grape farmers in Mbarara are concerned that they are earning less from the crop due to the absence of an agronomist to offer expertise on the processes for growing and harvesting the crop. There are more than 200 grape farmers in Ibaare, Nyamatojo and Nyakayojo, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University will have limited entrance and exit points after the construction of the new perimeter wall, management has revealed. This is one of the measures aimed at improving the safety and security of students, staff, and visitors to the university, which has had dozens …

Each week in Mulago hospital alone, Ssekabira said they operate on twenty and thirty children with various complications but many surgeries such as hernias are not urgently attended to as required because of the huge need for other life-threatening surgeries. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Despite advances in medical care …

The pathogen is extremely rare but has an mortality rate of as high as 90% Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | The deadly Marburg virus has reached Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea, with a total of 17 cases confirmed in the countries. Marburg virus which can cause internal bleeding and kidney failure …

Chikankata, Zambia | Xinhua | Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema officially commissioned a Chinese-built hydropower plant, following the switching on of the plant’s fifth generator on Friday. The five generators at the Kafue Gorge Lower Hydropower Station, constructed by the Chinese firm Sinohydro Corporation Limited, added a total of 750 megawatts to the …

More than 30 African states already have laws that ban same-sex relationships. Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | Human rights activists say Uganda’s passage of an anti-homosexuality bill could be the impetus for similar far-reaching legislation across Africa as anti-gay sentiments grow. More than 30 African states already have laws that ban …

The North African region is the only one of five Africa CDC regions that is currently non-operational Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | Health experts have condemned what they described as a disconnect between North and Sub–Saharan Africa, which they say is hindering the development of a comprehensive health strategy for the …