The airline has announced Abuja, Lusaka and Harare as new flight destination effective September this year Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Airlines is stepping up competition against Ethiopian Airlines, Kenya Airways, and RwandAir with the launch of new flights to Abuja in Nigeria, Lusaka in Zambia, and Harare in …

KIGALI, Rwanda | Xinhua | Rwanda’s National Electoral Commission on Monday confirmed Paul Kagame of the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) as the winner of the July 15 presidential election with more than 99 percent of the vote, according to the final results. Kagame, who has been seeking a fourth term, …

KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | Ugandan security agencies have had heavy deployment ahead of an anti-corruption protest in the capital city of Kampala, a police spokesperson said here Monday. Luke Owoyesigyire, deputy spokesperson of Kampala Metropolitan Police, told Xinhua by telephone that various security agencies had already deployed their personnel …

KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | The Ugandan parliament said it is ready to receive a petition from activists who plan to march to the parliament on Tuesday in an anti-corruption protest. In a statement issued here on Monday, the parliament said it has learned that there is a group of …

How it has upended the US election race and what happens next ANALYSIS | LESTER MUNSON | It is tempting to draw grand conclusions from the July 13 assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. The coarse rhetoric currently in vogue in American politics, not to mention the Capitol riot on …

Napak, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Patriot students in the Napak district have been urged to promote the peace-building process and avoid being recruited into cattle rustling. This was  raised  on Friday during the pass-out ceremony of 716 students who underwent a two-week training. The students were drawn from all the …

BEIJING, CHINA | Xinhua | “Today, the Chinese people can say with great pride that reform and opening-up, China’s second revolution if you like, has not only profoundly changed the country but also greatly influenced the whole world,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping at the opening ceremony of the Boao …

* Just hours following the outage, scams, phishing emails, and other criminal activities started to target CrowdStrike customers concerning the incident, under the guise of customer service and technical support. * The fact that the largest global IT outage so far was caused not by cyberattacks or ill-intentioned actors but, …

Experts say that could lead to coups ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | Governments that allocate substantial resources to the military can inadvertently increase the political power of the military. “This will in turn lower both civilian control and oversight and increase the risk of an unconstitutional change of government (coups),”says Nan …

In the face of growing repression, Ugandans continue to find new and creative ways to combat the entrenched system of state capture ANALYSIS | MICHELLE GAVIN | Ugandans have limited options when it comes to holding their political leaders accountable. Elections in the country have grown less and less credible over …