Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda needs 64 billion shillings for its Ebola preparedness and response plan. According to the plan, there is a decrease of 5 billion shillings from the original plan that was launched in August 2018 following an outbreak of Ebola in Butembo North Kivu located …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan Security agencies have tasked their counterparts in South Sudan to beef up security along the Nimule-Juba Highway. The call comes in the wake of resurgence of insecurity that left a Ugandan and a South Sudanese national dead on Tuesday in Lowa Pageri County, Aswa …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It was a somber mood at the head offices of Rwenzori Commodities Limited on plot 11 Old PortBell Road in Kampala on Thursday afternoon. Top government officials and business community were quietly ushered into the upper floor of the building to pay their last …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Emmanuel Urombi has been declared winner of the Nebbi LCV by-election. Orombi of the National Resistance Movement-NRM party garnered 20,280 votes, defeating Vicky Onyai of Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party who obtained 4,022 votes.  George Uthuba an Independent Candidate got 18,323 votes. Orombi was …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament will recognize Ministers who regularly attend to issues raised in the plenary session. Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah made the communication on Thursday saying that the award of certificates to the Ministers will not only help improve their attendance in Parliament but also send …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has tasked the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development to give a detailed status of the exportation of domestic workers abroad. Parliament was on Thursday debating the exportation of Ugandan domestic workers to the Middle East following a matter of national importance raised …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation and China Railway 19th Bureau Group (U) Ltd have won the bid to construct the 23.7-kilometer Mpigi Expressway through a joint venture. Mark Ssali, the Communications Officer Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA disclosed this to URN on Thursday. “The contract has …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kapeule Ngole, a resident of Karita Sub County in Amudat district is in trouble for allegedly lying and presenting a forged National Identity card to the Justice, Catherine Bamugemereire Land Commission. It all started after Simon Lomukele, a resident of Lokales village in Karita Sub …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Stella Nyanzi has asked court through her lawyers, Isaac Ssemakadde and Derrick Bazekuketta to adjourn her case for a month to allow her find witnesses willing to testify on her behalf. Bazekuketta made the request while presenting his submission before the Buganda Road Grade …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lack of political will is affecting the introduction of a National Legal Aid policy (NLAP) in the country, according to Sylvia Namubiru, the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Service Providers Network-LASPNET. Speaking to URN yesterday, Namubiru said little effort has been made to process …