Nakasongola, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  More than 1,000 people in Lwampanga Town Council district have been displaced by another wave of flooding on the shoreline of Lake Kyoga in Nakasongola district. The water has submerged houses in Lwampanga, Kisenyi and Kabasombwa villages located in Lwampanga town council. The rising waters …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The use of the National Identity Card (ID) as the officially recognized identifier has helped facilitate accountability in government.  A cost-benefit analysis study done by researchers at the Resilient Africa Network has found that the government has so far saved up to USD 51 million …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Police have announced a daytime curfew for two days in areas of Kyambogo, Kireka and other neighbouring areas during the nominations for presidential candidates. Justice Simon Byabakama, the Chairman of Electoral Commission announced that nominations for 2021 presidential candidates will be conducted next week …

Nakaseke, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The need for tarmac roads, eliminating land grabbers and unfulfilled pledges are taking centre stage as parliamentary candidates campaign ahead of the 2021 general elections. Official campaigns are scheduled to start on November 9, 2020, and last until January 12, 2021. But the candidates are …

Kyotera, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Kyotera District Covid-19 task force has relaxed enforcing the covid-19 prevention guidelines.  Kyotera is among the border districts that were characterized under the category of high-risk areas due to its proximity to Tanzania where community transmission is feared to be high.  However, in many …

Rukungiri , Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Some of the candidates in Rukungiri District have raised concern about the destruction of their posters.  The defaced posters are those of Ingrid Turinawe, an independent candidate and Dr Elisa Rutahigwa of National Resistance Movement- NRM party who are contesting with Dr.Wallen Nwagaba of …

Kasese, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Over 200 families in Isule parish, Maliba subcounty in Kasese district are without a place of abode after mudslides covered their homes in the area. But even mobile assets were not spared, among these five boda boda motorcycles whose owners had taken shelter only for …

Bunyangabu , Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Dr Vincent Womujuni, an independent candidate is back in the Bunyangabu County parliamentary race, one week after he pulled out.    On Friday last week, Womujuni together with Elizabeth Nikuze, who was vying for the Bunyangabu District Woman Member of Parliament seat, declared that …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Engineer Andrew Kitaka has resigned from Kampala Capital City Authority, months after handing the office of the Executive Director. October 31, 2020, will mark the end of his nine-year journey which started on November 1, 2011. Kitaka was appointed KCCA acting Executive Director in December …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The amount of money migrant workers send home is projected to decline by 14 per cent  compared to the pre-COVID-19 levels, according to the latest estimates published in the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief.    Remittance flows to low and middle-income countries are projected …