Omoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Omoro district COVID-19 taskforce has moved it’s quarantine center from Opit Secondary School to Don Bosco Atede Secondary School. Since schools will reopen on October 15th after the COVID-19 lockdown, the taskforce opted to shift to give room to management of Opit Secondary School …
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Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A group of unknown people armed with bows and arrows, pangas and spears numbering over 60 have invaded Acholiber village in the Contested Apaa area. Acholiber has an estimated population of about 1000 people with some now on the run for their dear lives due …
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Kisoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 28 year old man who reportedly murdered his parents, wife and sister in law in Kisoro district on Thursday night has turned himself in. Gerald Ndikumukiza, the main suspect in last week’s gruesome multiple murder, handed himself over to police yesterday afternoon. A resident …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents in the outskirts of Jinja city are anxious about the operations of the new City, which, according to them, could have effects on land ownership. Jinja City became operational on July 1. But some of the residents in the villages of Budondo, Mafubira and …
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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The leader of Britain’s main opposition party, Labour’s Keir Starmer, has for the first time moved ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a major opinion poll Sunday. The Opinium poll for the Observer newspaper has given Starmer a four-point lead over Johnson. In a …
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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that there’s a chance she and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin could reach an agreement on the next COVID-19 relief package. “I trust Secretary Mnuchin to represent something that can reach a solution and I believe we can …
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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday expressed his great concern over the latest Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, calling on both sides to immediately stop fighting. “The secretary-general is extremely concerned over the fresh resumption of hostilities along the line of contact in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. …
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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The 2020 G20 Leaders’ Summit will be held virtually on Nov. 21 to 22, chaired by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s G20 presidency said in a statement early Monday. The statement said the Saudi G20 presidency will “build on the success …
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Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mbale Woman Member of Parliament Connie Nakayenze Galiwango has demanded the release of the disputed National Resistance Movement- NRM primaries. The NRM Electoral Commission is yet to announce the winner of the primaries which were held on September 4. Galiwango was contesting against …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ten election symbols approved by the Electoral Commission for independent candidates are not enough. THe symbols are: bicycles, pot, clock, chair, saucepan, table, cup, radio, kettle and ball. However, these symbols have been exhausted by the local government direct councilors in some electoral areas. …
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