Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT Police have dispersed traditional healers who had gathered to construct a shrine in Bujjagali village in Budondo ward in Jinja city citing breach of the Covid19 preventive guidelines. Led by the new Bujjagali oracle, Hassan Kirunda, the traditional healers from different districts of Busoga Sub region …
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Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mityana District Covid-19 task force is on the spot for failing to pay 40 million shillings to a contractor who supplied more than 20 tons of maize flour. Following the outbreak of COVID-19, the government imposed a lockdown as one of the measures to …
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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Spanish international striker Rodrigo Moreno is on the verge of a move to newly promoted Premier League club, Leeds United. Valencia confirmed the news on their official website late on Tuesday night explaining they had “reached a preliminary agreement with Leeds United FC this Tuesday …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has tasked the government to explain why private teachers under Lockdown have not received their SACCO funds which were promised by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. In his last national address on COVID-19, President Museveni promised to inject 2 billion Uganda shillings into the Private …
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Bushenyi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four people in Bushenyi district are nursing injuries they sustained in suspected electoral violence. They are Hamidu Mugisha, Gordius Kakubiro, Bahati Amir and Asharaf Nimwesiga. Martial Tumusiime, the Greater Bushenyi Regional Police Spokesperson, says the four were injured in a fight that broke out in …
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Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Serere District Security Committee has issued guidelines for National Resistance Movement-NRM party members canvassing for votes for election as party candidates. In a security meeting held at the district council hall involving candidates for District Chairperson and Parliamentary seats on Wednesday, the Security Committee chaired by …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT Closed Circuit Television –CCTV cameras have aided the police in Kampala to arrest a suspected National Drugs Authority –NDA masquerader and fraudster after a one month hunt. Dawson Orombo and three others have several times been accused by pharmacists and herbal medicine dealers of charging them …
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Gulu Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu Regional Referral Hospital Covid-19 treatment center has run out of essential medical supplies. They include among other personal protective equipment, detergents and test kits. The PPE consists of gloves, face shields, goggles and boots among others. Bishop Janani Loum, the regional in-charge of surveillance and …
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Rubanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT Five more people have drowned in Lake Bunyonyi, barely a week after three people drowned in the same lake. The deceased have been identified as Grolia Tuhimbise, her children, Shanitah Ruhangariyo 1 and half years and Sandra Kyokusiima, 10 months, all residents of Karambo village in …
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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Wendie Renard’s 67th minute header saw reigning Women’s Champions League champions Olympique Lyon claim a 1-0 win in their all French semi-final against Paris Saint Germain in Athletic Club Bilbao’s San Mames Stadium on Wednesday night. Renard’s far post header came after a dangerous in-swinging …
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