Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Police Force has advised the general public to be more vigilant while in places that are not covered by CCTV security cameras within the Kampala Metropolitan area. The call came as police listed places where CCTV camera’s remain non functional, some of which have …
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Museveni, experts call for holistic approach to deal with sector challenges Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | What would it take to improve water access, sanitation in most African countries that are essentially poor? This is one question that came up during the 20th Water and Sanitation International Congress …
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Houston, United States | AFP | Joe Biden’s presidential hopes received a huge shot in the arm Monday after former rivals Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg dropped out of the Democratic race and endorsed the former vice president ahead of the crucial Super Tuesday primaries. The dramatic turn comes at …
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Bratislava, Slovakia | AFP | A self-proclaimed “man of the people”, the 46-year-old media-savvy Igor Matovic propelled his centre-right anti-graft party to victory in Slovakia’s general election, beating the governing populists on a strident anti-graft platform. While supporters view him as a maverick with a knack for self-promotion, critics accuse Matovic of …
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Paris, France | AFP | Markets have shuddered as the coronavirus spreads worldwide, but analysts doubt it will plunge economies into a crisis like the one that followed the 2008 Lehman Brothers investment bank failure. Where will the market slide end? Stock markets held up fairly well in the first weeks …
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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Teso Chief Papa Emorimor, Augustine Osuban Lemukol Adugala has finally named his new cabinet, more than three months after dropping the old cabinet. Emorimor reshuffled his cabinet in November last year after attempts by some cabinet ministers to oust him. He later named …
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Vatican City, Holy See | AFP | The unveiling on Monday of Pope Pius XII’s archives has been demanded for decades by Jewish groups and historians. They comprise 120 fonds — archival documents of the same origin — and are split into 20,000 units. They add up to millions of pages …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jinja district officials have resolved to sell some dilapidated government buildings to raise money to finance the construction of their new headquarters. In 2015, the then Jinja district councilors resolved to selloff plot 1 on Busoga road at Shillings 2.5 billion to finance the construction …
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Bushenyi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipal Town Clerk, William Makune is under the spotlight for alleged failure to account for over Shillings 100million collected in the first quarter of the 2019/2020 financial year. This prompted the Mayor and Councilors to close the municipal offices on Friday to get …
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Buvama, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buvuma District authorities are concerned about the poor state of road connecting to out grower’s gardens ahead of the planting of palm oil seedlings. The National Oil Palm Project-NOPP is finalising preparations to receive about 36, 000 seedlings from Benin in March this year for …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
