Isingiro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Twenty-two people have been sentenced to 100 hours’ of community service after being convicted on different charges. The charges include engaging in domestic violence, theft, threatening violence, simple robbery, malicious damage, causing grievous harm, and engaging in a negligent act likely to spread disease. Most …
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BAKU, Azerbaijan | XINHUA | The new round of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia Wednesday entered its 4th day, with more casualties revealed by the two sides. Since the outbreak of the conflict, about 2,300 Armenian soldiers have been killed and wounded, and about 130 tanks and other armored …
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | XINHUA | Malaysia on Thursday recorded its highest number o cases since June, as Japan eased entry restrictions for certain foreigners. Malaysia reported 260 new COVID-19 infections, the Health Ministry said, bringing the national total to 11,484. Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in …
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Kakumiro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Armed Thugs have robbed 16 million Shillings from a businesswoman in Kuhuna Trading Centre in Kakumiro district. It is alleged that six thugs, armed with a gun, last night raided a shop owned by one Margret Basemera, 49, and held her at gunpoint before ordering …
Read More »Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The management of Makerere University has this afternoon launched platforms on which willing individuals and organizations can offer monetary contributions for the restoration of the iconic main building. The structure, widely referred to as the Ivory Tower, was gutted by fire on September 20. In …
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Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum Municipal Council is expected to receive an additional 1 billion Shillings from the government to boost infrastructural works under Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructural Development [USMID] programme. This comes after Kitgum was ranked the best among 21 other municipalities on the performance measures under …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |The Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) has made it clear that it will cater for the COVID-19 testing fees for the four teams that will play in the FUFA Big League playoffs. The Playoffs will determine which one team that will qualify to play …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of the Natural Resources Committee of Parliament want the Minerals Police Protection Unit disbanded for brutalizing artisanal miners. The unit was created at the height of conflicts in the mining areas of Bisya, Engaju and Nsiika among others between the large scale miners and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police leadership has resolved to retrain 94 medical Police Constables so that they can be elevated to ranks befitting their qualifications. The decision to retrain the Constables comes at the time when policemen and women who joined the force in June 2015 with medical documents …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Khisa Isaac | Coca-Cola Beverages Africa in Uganda represented by Plastic Recycling industries under Rwenzori Bottling Company has signed a conservation partnership with the Tooro Kingdom to ‘Save River Mpanga’. The conservation partnership, signed at the Coca-Cola Platform at the UMA Showgrounds in Lugogo, Kampala, …
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