Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  MV Pearl, the second marine vessel that plies the Masaka – Kalangala route through the Bukakata and Lukku -Bugoma docking piers has returned after three months of servicing and upgrade. The Marine Vessel had been taken to Kisumu, Kenya in April for an overhaul, part …

Bukavu, DR Congo | AFP | A woman has died of Ebola and her infant son was diagnosed with the virus in the first confirmed cases in DR Congo’s South Kivu province, reviving fears Friday the highly contagious disease could spread through the region. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola epidemic …

Paris, France | AFP |  The Iron Curtain was at first an ideological and then a physical separation of communist Eastern Europe from the West from the 1940s after World War II. – The name –    The term “iron curtain” was popularised after it was used by former British prime …

Loisaba , Kenya | AFP |  For most of his life as a Samburu warrior, Lesaiton Lengoloni thought nothing of hunting giraffes, the graceful giants so common a feature of the Kenyan plains where he roamed. “There was no particular pride in killing a giraffe, not like a lion… (But) a …

Paris, France | AFP | The saga of Neymar’s seemingly inevitable departure from Paris Saint-Germain is proving a long, drawn out affair bringing the curtain down on what will ultimately feel like a fleeting and failed experiment. Having arrived in France in 2017 hoping a world-record transfer to PSG would help …

Tihany, Hungary | AFP |  When Hungary’s former leader Miklos Nemeth first started poking a hole through the Iron Curtain in 1989, he had no idea how quickly his actions would contribute to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism in central and eastern Europe. In an …

Southampton, United Kingdom | AFP | Liverpool reserve goalkeeper Adrian enjoyed a memorable full debut in winning the UEFA Super Cup in Istanbul, but Southampton will hope his penalty shootout heroics against Chelsea simply masked a broader problem ahead of Saturday’s clash at St Mary’s. A Liverpool defence that kept 20 …

Luweero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Luweero District Forum for Democratic Change-FDC Chairperson Absolom Bwanika Bbaale has been laid to rest. Bwanika aged 75 years succumbed to liver cancer at Kampala hospital on Monday. He also served as National Resistance Council member, a delegate at Constitutional Assembly and former Member …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament on Thursday passed the Kampala Capital City Amendment Bill 2019.  The bill which was first introduced in 2015 has put in place the position of Speaker at KCCA and the Divisions to separate power. This means the legislative powers have been handed over to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Some of the premature babies who had been admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Kawempe National Referral hospital have been transferred to the Mulago Specialized Maternal and Neonatal hospital. This was revealed in a statement issued on Thursday by the Ministry of …