Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbale residents living with disabilities have contributed money and established a savings and credit society to help finance their individual engagements so as to reduce on the biting poverty levels. Operating under the Mbale Union of Disabled Persons, the newly formed SACCO intends to tap …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than three-thousand girls got pregnant in the greater West Nile region during the Covid-19 lockdown according to statistics from the Education department of the Lugbara Cultural institution. Suzan Ezatia, the Minister of Education in Lugbara Kari says that their findings indicate that some of …

Suspects are locked up at Otwee police station for marrying off a fifteen-year-old girl Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eight people in Amuru district are in trouble for procuring defilement. They are thirty-year-old Charles Ojok, who is accused of severally defiling a fifteen-year-old girl and primary six pupil at Oloyotong …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have rubbished claims that the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Paul Lokech influenced the arrest of Aruu County Member of Parliament, Samuel Odonga Otto. The embattled legislator was picked up from Gulu city on Tuesday last week on allegations of causing malicious …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Child rights activists want the Ministry of Education to extend the time that pregnant learners can stay in school. According to the education ministry policy, the learners are only given a period of three months to attend school after they are confirmed pregnant. However, those …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Simi Technologies, the manufacturer of Uganda’s first mobile phones says it has recorded high sales during the first year of its operations compared to their project. Simi technologies has been in business for 13 months following its launch in late 2019. David Beecham Okwere, the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital will reopen to the public next month. The hospital had closed the outpatient, dental, optical, maternal and child care departments in March last year to focus on the effective management of COVID-19 patients. Before its closure, the hospital served a population …

Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Bugoye village, Ntenjeru sub county in Mukono district have stepped up surveillance to stop any further encroachment on Zirimiti central forest reserve. Residents stepped up their vigilance after about 30 men armed with machetes started clearing part of the forestland on Friday evening. …

A landmark deal between the United States and the Taliban in February said foreign forces would leave Afghanistan by May 2021 in exchange for security guarantees by the Afghan armed group. Kabul, Afghanistan | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden has mulled over extending the May 1 deadline set last year by …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. John Chrysostom Muyingo, the Bamunanika County Member of Parliament and State Minister for Higher Education has distanced himself from the petition challenging the victory of his rival and former campaign manager, Robert Ssekitooleko. Ssekitooleko who ran on the National Unity Platform-NUP party ticket trounced the …