Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kitgum district have declined to release a private ambulance impounded from Kitgum Municipality legislator Denis Onekalit Amere. The ambulance registration number UBJ 962Y was impounded on Friday as Amere attempted to donate it for medical emergencies and timely referrals of patients in Kitgum …

Bunyangabu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A boda boda rider has been shot dead in Bunyangabu district for reportedly defying the inter-district travel ban announced recently as one of the measures to contain surging cases of COVID-19. The deceased has been identified as John Kugonza Rwahumura, aged 28 years and a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The General Court Martial has remanded 24-year-old Fiumoney Kessy Odoc, a security guard attached to private security firm Saracen Uganda Limited for illegal possession of defence stores. Odoc, a resident of Kiganda village, Kira municipality in Wakiso district appeared on Monday afternoon before the General …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As Covid-19 cases surge, Uganda Prisons Services has reinstated the ban on visits to all detention centres in a bid control the spread of the contagious disease. Soon after Uganda declared her first Covid-19 case in March last year, UPS banned visits to all its …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 372 people in Gulu have been initiated on the Tuberculosis preventive therapy after getting in contact with TB patients. 158 out of these are children under five years of age while 214 were previously listed for the preventive therapy after getting in contact with …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The passport picking center has been shifted from the Ministry of Internal Affairs headquarters to Kyambogo where Face Technologies used to be located. Speaking to journalists at Naguru police headquarters, Jacob Siminyu, spokesperson of Immigration services said that in order to reduce the number of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The rate at which people in Africa are donating blood has decreased according to the World Health Organization. Data from the UN health agency shows that blood donations in the region have fallen by 17 percent in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The drop …

Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The developer of COVIDEX, a herbal treatment that has been marketed to cure COVID-19 has said the drug has not yet been confirmed to cure the disease. According to a statement issued by Prof. Patrick Engeu Ogwang, a lecturer at Mbarara University of Science and …

Health ministry wants KCCA to account for 21,000 doses whose usage has not yet been accounted for Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The health ministry has directed Kampala Capital City Authority -KCCA to account for all the vaccines that it received for the COVID-19 vaccination exercise. Uganda received 964,000 vaccine doses …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Moments after the release of 17 National Unity Platform-NUP party supporters, who are battling charges of illegal possession of ammunition, the party president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine says they will take legal action to seek justice for their members. The UPDF General Court …