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Prisons use up 99% of their Covid-19 vaccine doses

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Prisons Services has less than 100 COVID-19 vaccine doses left amidst very high demand by the personnel and prison communities to get vaccinated. Frank Baine, public relations officer of Uganda prisons says the security agency received 10,000 doses and over 9,900 have been consumed. This …

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CSOs ask gov’t to review Covid-19 stimulus packages

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil society Organizations-CSOs and representatives from the private sector demand that the government review the stimulus package instituted during the Covid-19 pandemic. From April 2020, the government put in place several packages with an objective of supporting the different businesses that were hit hard by …

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MPs call for mainstreaming malaria as a cross cutting issue

Parliamentary Forum on Malaria wants government to dedicate Shillings 250 billion to fighting malaria for a period of five years Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliamentary Forum on Malaria is calling for the mainstreaming of the fight against malaria as a means to kick the disease completely out of the …

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CCTV cameras, flying squad reveal car theft spots

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | For years, Katwe policing division has been known as the leading car theft zone in Kampala city. But it has now been replaced by Old Kampala and Kawempe policing divisions. Incidents of motor vehicle thefts captured by Closed Circuit Television cameras and Flying Squad’s intelligence led …

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Pipeline compensation claims outnumber affected persons by far

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The number of persons with interests on land located in the route of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline- EACOP is nearly 1,000 more than the number of Project Affected Persons-PAPs, according to information available. According to the approved resettlement action plan, a total of 3,792 …

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Relocation of vendors into Tororo central market underway

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Vendors in Tororo municipality have started occupying the Tororo central market, five months after it was commissioned by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Tororo central market is one of the 12 markets that have been constructed under the Markets and Agricultural Trade Improvement Programme (MATIP-2), at a …

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107 people killed in Luwero last year

Luwero district recorded 73 cases of homicides Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Atleast 107 people died from unnatural causes in Luwero in 2020, the annual district crime report has revealed. According to the district report, road crashes claimed 25 lives, 13 died in mob justice, 6 people committed suicide and 2 …

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Specialists decline work at Gulu hospital over meager pay

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Medical consultants have for a decade declined work at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital citing the meager pay from government as the hospital struggles with the needy patients for specialized treatment. The positions of the senior consultants lacking in the hospital include that of a specialist for …

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Kabale RDC notifies wetland encroachers to resist NEMA and police evictions

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale Resident District Commissioner Darius Nandinda has told people farming in the wetlands to resist any attempts to evict them by National Environment Management Authority-NEMA and Water ministry officials supported by the environmental police until the district authorities are satisfied the exercise is going to be …

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