Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The COVID-19 pandemic has regressed key aspects of democracy in Africa and the Middle East, including the disruption of electoral processes. That is one of the conclusions of a study by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. The report released on Thursday this …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu City has registered the worst voters’ turn-up in the Presidential elections. Statistics from the Electoral Commission shows that 34,916 voters out of the registered 103,401 in Gulu City voted in the 2021 Presidential elections representing 37.3%.  In 2016 before Gulu Municipality was elevated to …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Church of Uganda (CoU) House of Bishops has resolved to have the retired Archbishop Stanley Ntagali handled by a tribunal in accordance with the Canons of the Church. The tribunal membership currently remains secret but Uganda Radio Network-URN has learnt that this is made of …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Eleven months after school closures due to the covid-19 pandemic, the full reopening of the institutions of learning remains a big puzzle with no one sure of when non-candidates might be able to return to school. On March 18, 2020, President Museveni with guidance from …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging in Africa as new, more contagious variants of the virus spread to additional countries. Over 175, 000 new COVID-19 cases and more than 6,200 deaths were reported in Africa in the last week while infections rose by 50% …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  National Resistance Movement-NRM supporters in Kamwokya on Thursday celebrated the victory of two LCIII Councillors. Kamwokya is a stronghold of the National Unity Platform-NUP party, where the party’s headquarters are also located.  NRM won in Kamwokya 2B and Kamwokya 2C parishes defeating NUP, FDC, DP …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Police are planning to construct a 15-billion-shilling Criminal Automated Identification System abbreviated as CABIS in order to simplify investigation of serial criminals. The proposal to construct CABIS interlinked to each of the major district and division policing areas is contained in a document prepared by …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Ugandans could have surrendered their data privacy to unknown people over the last two weeks since the government shut down social media access.  The shutdown of the internet on the eve of the presidential and parliamentary elections forced Ugandans to find ways of communicating, and …

Fort Portal, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   The elected Fort Portal Tourism City Woman Member of Parliament – MP Irene Linda has vowed to push for more funding to women and youth groups once in parliament. Linda, the National Resistance Movement – NRM party candidate, contested against six others who included …

Arua, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Hundreds of youths on Thursday stormed the party offices in Arua over the alleged embezzlement of over 7 Million Shillings.  The money was reportedly sent from the NRM Secretariat to facilitate the youths to participate in the Special Interest Groups-SIGs elections that were held on …