Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of veteran table tennis players is calling for increased investment in the sport from both the government and private sector. They emphasize the need for greater focus on developing table tennis across the country, highlighting its potential for job creation and talent development. …
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KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | Ugandan Minister of State for Local Government Victoria Rusoke Businge has praised the contributions of the Chinese government and a Chinese non-governmental organization (NGO) for their conservation and forest restoration efforts in the country. Businge made these remarks while handing over 10,000 trees and fruit …
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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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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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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have called on government to improve access to electricity in rural areas across the country to boost value-addition in the agriculture sector. They made the call while debating a report by the Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries on the status …
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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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Rutshuru, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | The European Union has opposed a death sentence handed to some of the 26 leaders of the M23/Congo River (Fleavu) Alliance rebels, describing it as a contravention of the rule of law. A military court sitting in Gombe-Kinshasa on August 8, handed a death sentence …
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ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA | Xinhua | The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Thursday called for urgent action to avert the “concerning spread” of mpox across the continent. Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya, addressing a media briefing on the multi-country mpox outbreak in Africa on Thursday, …
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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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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A total of 60 youth, women, and small and medium entrepreneurs have graduated in the inaugural Enterprise Development Program of the Uganda Development Bank, with a call on institutions to “enable capital flow”. The program is a business incubator designed to prepare businesses to become …
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