Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University students are disappointed about the postponement of the real-time online exams to next week. According to the initial program, the students were expected to start writing their exams on Monday, September 13 until September 30, 2021. However, the university postponed the real-time online …

Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Detectives from Aswa river region police headquarters in Gulu city are investigating the death of a Kenyan trucker in Elegu township at the Uganda-South Sudan border. Hersi Abdiriza, 45, was found dead in his guest house room in Lorikwor West ward, Elegu town council in …

Agago, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is panic among livestock farmers and residents of Agago district in areas bordering the Karamoja region over the fresh influx of suspected cattle rustlers. According to local leaders, the suspected rustlers began entering the border areas two weeks ago while fleeing from the ongoing …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Child and Family Protection Unit of Arua central police are stuck with a two days’ old baby girl who was abandoned by the mother. The now at large teenage girl delivered the bouncing baby girl at 9am on Monday at the hospital labor suit …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Orthodox church is uncertain when the Greek government will release the remains of the late Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga because of ongoing investigations into his death. The late Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga died in the Greek capital Greece on September 4th, 2021 after a long illness. …

Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government of the Republic of Poland is set to renovate a graveyard left behind by the Polish refugees at Nyabyeya village, Budongo sub county in Masindi district. The graveyard that has 48 graves of some of the Polish refugees who died in Nyabyeya village …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An angry mob in Lira has killed a man for butchering his wife. The mob hunted 53-year-old Denis Alal and killed him for slaughtering his estranged wife, Christine Akello on Monday evening. It all started after Alal while at Anai Ober Cell, Lira City West …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Acholi Parliamentary Group-APG has tasked the government through the Ministry of Education and Sports to immediately reopen Gulu College of Health Sciences. Management closed the schools on Thursday last week following a demonstration by students over the revised fees structure. According to the circular …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A report by the Uganda Aids Commission shows that Kalangala district and Mbarara city have registered an increase in the HIV/AIDS prevalence in the country. The report conducted between 2010 and 2020 with support from UNAIDS shows that the two districts have recorded a higher …

Ntoroko, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Crime Intelligence in collaboration with the Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID have arrested three suspected masterminds of murder in various Western Uganda districts. CID spokesperson Charles Twine says that the hunt for the trio started with the kidnap and murder of Ntoroko district chairperson Japeth Kabagambe on …