Port Louis, Mauritius | AFP | Mauritians will vote Thursday in an election that will see Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth vie to win a popular mandate two years after he was handed the top job when his father stepped down. Nearly a million voters are registered for the parliamentary election in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University Guild President, Julius Kateregga has asked the Education Committee of Parliament to intervene to prevail on the university council and management to halt the implementation of the 15 percent tuition increment policy. He was appearing before the Committee on Monday evening to explain …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police detectives have pinned four suspects being tried for the murder of two mobile money agents in Zana along Entebbe Road in June this year. Harriet Nalwaddas and Moreen Nakabuubi were shot dead by gunmen riding on motorcycles on June 10th 2019. The gunmen made …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have warned Criminal Investigation Commanders – CIDs against picking suspects from cells without going through a Cell’s Guard. Police’s Chief Political Commissar –CPC Asan Kasingye, says it is very wrong for an OC CID to go to the cells, pick a suspect and take …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A group of eight supporters of Forum For Democratic Change (FDC) party have been arrested from Namboole National Stadium. They were picked up by police deployed at the Stadium to prevent the opposition from holding their planned meeting there at about 2pm on Monday, several hours …
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Istanbul, Turkey | AFP | A Turkish court on Monday ordered the release under supervision of two prominent journalists jailed over alleged links to the failed 2016 coup in the country. Ahmet Altan and Nazli Ilicak walked out of prison on Monday evening where they had been serving a sentence of …
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Bamako, Mali | AFP | A digital war is unfolding in Mali alongside a jihadist conflict that has claimed thousands of lives: the battle to sway young minds is being waged on the mobile phone. “Jihadists today are recruiting on WhatsApp. We have to stop the bloodshed,” said Hama Cisse, a …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Court bailiffs on Monday impounded a vehicle that was being used to distribute Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) papers to schools within Gulu Municipality. The Pick-Up Double Cabin registration number LG-001117 attached to the Town Clerk`s office was the only vehicle transporting papers to thirty …
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Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa is an agricultural economist and board chairman of the Microfinance Support Centre. He also served as the Chairman of the National Planning Authority from 2008 to 2018. Victoria Sekitoleko is the current chairperson of Uganda Agribusiness Alliance (UAA) and former minister of agriculture. Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE …
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UTB strengthens marketing and quality of service Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda Tourism Board is gearing up regulating tourism facilities, travel agents and tourist guides countrywide to support growth of the sector. In an interview with The Independent on Oct.15 at Protea Hotel during the agency’s quarterly media …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
