Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Ngomoromo market in Lokung sub-county, Lamwo district remains unoccupied six years after it was commissioned. The market located at Uganda-South Sudan border was constructed in 2012 by Lamwo district local government at a tune of 52 million shillings with funding from the World Bank …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The first batch of medical students at Islamic University in Uganda have graduated. The university introduced Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery course in 2014 and admitted 33 students. They were among the over 2,000 students who graduated on Saturday at the University’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Director-General of Civil Aviation authority-CAA, Daniel Kakuba has asked different government agencies to market the source of the Nile as a priority tourist destination in the whole world. While officiating over the rising of the international civil aviation organization-ICAO flag at the source …

Some governments need to pick up the pace on signing off on upstream projects in order to attract capital, Tullow boss says | THE INDEPENDENT | African countries risk losing out to other markets in the race for global upstream investment capital due to slow decision making by some governments …

A true story by Prof. John Sebuwufu; former vice chancellor of Makerere University Kampala, about student strikes. In spite of occasional skirmishes, some order had returned to students’ politics, until February 2001 when the calm was rudely interrupted by the murder of a first-year student and a resident of Lumumba …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | An extra-ordinary meeting of Uganda Telecom Limited has resolved to that a new administrator will be appointed following the expiry of Bemanya Twebaze’s tenure. Bemanya, who serves as the Registrar General of the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB), was in 2017 appointed UTL administrator …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The second phase of relocating residents living in the disaster-prone areas of Bududa district will start next month. The relocation exercise which was expected to end this month has since faced challenges due to the heavy downpour in the area. Last year, government started …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The International University of East Africa has emerged winners of the 7th edition of the University Debate competitions. The theme of the debate held at Gulu University was “Voter 21”. Under this theme students discussed, interrogated and analyzed how the youth can be empowered …

Atlanta, United States | AFP | President Donald Trump on Friday sought to crack Democrats’ solid hold on black voters, telling a gathering of African-Americans in Atlanta that the left has taken them for granted. Trump hammered home his platform of fighting illegal immigration and using trade wars to rebuild the …

Washington, United States | AFP | President Donald Trump said Friday he has not agreed to roll back tariffs on Chinese imports, dampening recent optimism for a major de-escalation in the US-China trade war. Amid a steady stream of conflicting reports, Trump’s remarks appeared to push back against Beijing’s claims that …