Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of artisanal miners have descended on a new gold mining site in Bulumbi village, Namungodi town council in Busia district. The artisanal miners are drawn from Buteba, Tiira, Busitema, Namungodi and Buteba sub-counties and the neighboring Namayingo district. According to the artisanal miners, one …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces-UPDF engineering brigade has started renovating the intensive care unit at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital-JRRH. One of the engineers told URN on condition of anonymity so as to speak freely on the matter since he is not the official spokesperson of …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Sunday that the United States has by no means any compassion toward Muslim nations in the region, according to the president’s official website. Making the remarks in a phone conversation with his Iraqi counterpart Barham Salih, Raisi said it has …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Ruble payments will be used more in Russia’s foreign trade, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday. “It is still a prototype system (of payments), but I’m confident that it will spread to new groups of goods as well, and it will play a larger role in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament from the northern and eastern regions affected by cattle rustling have called for a fresh disarmament process in Karamoja to curb the vice. The MPs from Karamoja, Acholi, Teso, Lango, and Bugisu sub-regions say that there has been a resurgence of cattle …

Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Sunday called on the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) to keep the same distance from all parties amid the ongoing political crisis in the country. His remarks came during a meeting with the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two suspects are in police custody in connection to the fire that gutted the agrochemicals and equipment stores belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries in Wandegeya on Sunday. Police have identified the suspects as Jerry Ajambo and Eunice Namusimbi, both cleaners …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and Uganda Police Force (UPF) have admitted that some of the warriors in Karamoja sub-region possess guns and bullets made from the Nakasongola ammunition factory. Ever since President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ordered for the offensive disarmament exercise in Karamoja …

Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | The Sudanese General Intelligence Service (GIS) on Thursday freed 18 foreigners held by a human trafficking group in eastern Sudan’s Gadaref State. “The national intelligence service in Gadaref state managed to stop a human trafficking network today (Thursday) and freed 18 Ethiopian nationals from a criminal …

Agago, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Agago district has started the process of planting trees to replace those that have been massively cut over the past few years. The development follows a resolution made in a council meeting, held on January 31, 2022, where the leaders agreed to make tree planting …