Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President, Yoweri Museveni has rejected a request by the Civil Aviation Authority-CAA to use Nakasongola airport as an alternative to Entebbe International Airport in case of emergency. On Tuesday, Engineer Edward Kaweesi Ndawula, the CAA Board Chairperson told Museveni during the arrivals of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | ‘East Africa’s Got Talent’ will kick off auditions in Kampala, Kigali, Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam in search of amazing and extraordinary talent. It could be dancing, singing, performing magic, gymnastics name it. The show is part of the “Got Talent” franchise started in 2014 by …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago will lead a team of lawyers to file an application challenging police’s continued blocking of Kyadondo East MP and musician Bobi Wine’s music shows. On Wednesday Lukwago received a file of documents of Kyarenga Extra show from …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Solicitor General Francis Atoke has asked the Supreme Court for more time in the case challenging failure by the government to implement Electoral Reforms. Atoke on Wednesday told a seven-member panel of the Supreme Court Justices led by Stella Arach Amoko that they were …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a grant of $150 million in additional financing from the International Development Association (IDA) to boost an ongoing project to improve access to basic social services, expand economic opportunities, and enhance environmental management targeting both …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has directed the establishment of two industrial parks in Oyam and Nwoya Districts. The proposed industrial parks will be powered by Karuma Hydro Power dam. The Land, Housing and Urban Development Minister, Betty Amongi, says they have written instructions from the president …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A combined team of soldiers and police has quelled down a protest against the continued blockage of the Kyadondo East Member of Parliament, Robert Sentamu Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine in Kamwokya, city suburbs. The officers swung in action this morning when a group of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Physical Infrastructure Committee of parliament has approved the proposed expansion of Uganda’s road reserves from 15 to 40 meters. A report authored by Robert Kafero Ssekitoleko, the Physical Infrastructure Committee Chairperson, notes that it is incumbent on government to secure land in form …

Threat remains of spread to Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan A meeting of an emergency World Health Organisation Committee (WHO) committee has said the current outbreak of the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the DR Congo does not constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) even if it has …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Committee on Science, Technology, and Innovation have recommended that the Science and technology sector be allocated 400 billion shillings in the 2019/2020 financial year. According to the ministerial statement for 2019/2020, the sector has been allocated 159.7 billion …