Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Fifteen years ago, Samuel Obedgiu was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army. At only 11 years, he was a child soldier, with nothing ahead of him but a future filled with darkness and hopelessness. Born January 14, 1995, at St Joseph Hospital Kitgum Mission …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The government spent 1.15 trillion Shillings without parliament approval during the Financial Year 2018/2019.  This is carried in a report of the Auditor-General for the year ended December 2019 presented to Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga. Government-approved a budget of 32 trillion Shillings for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Up to 96 Ugandan girls have been intercepted in Kenya, while on their way to the United Arab Emirates. The girls aged between 14 to 18 years were intercepted at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, where they were due to board their next …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Government has gazetted the Kampala Capital City Authority Amendment Act 2020. The amendment first introduced before parliament in 2015 was passed in August 2019 and assented by President Museveni December last year. The amendments put in place the position of Speaker at KCCA which …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Lwemiyaga County Member of Parliament (MP) Theodore Ssekikubo was rearrested a day after he was granted bail by Masaka Chief Magistrate’s Court. He was picked up by police from his country home in Lwemiyaga Town Council in Sembabule district Wednesday afternoon. Johnston Kamugisha, …

Tehran, Iran | AFP | President Hassan Rouhani appealed Wednesday for “unity” and flagged the need for radical changes to the way Iran is run, after a wave of angry protests over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner. The Kiev-bound Boeing 737 was shot down in a catastrophic error shortly …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Auditor-General John Muwanga has warned that the delayed provision of funds to facilitate the organization of the 2021 general election, will affect the smooth running of the process. The Electoral Commission requires 796.88 billion shillings for the organization of the presidential, parliamentary …

Bamako, Mali | AFP | Brutal attacks that have killed nearly 300 people in less than two months have propelled the Islamic State to the status of the Sahel’s most-feared jihadist group, eclipsing al-Qaeda, experts say. The vast fragile region on the southern rim of the Sahara has been battling an …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga says that garnishee orders against government are pre-arranged to defraud public finances. A garnishee order is a directive by court to allow creditors recover debt from a third party. The order can be carried out by taking money …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Auditor-General John Muwanga has queried the absence of a Petroleum Investment Framework to guide investment of funds under the Petroleum Revenue Investment Reserve in Bank of Uganda. While presenting his audit report for the year ended December 2019 to Speaker of Parliament Rebecca …