Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Police Force has launched its first ever Human Rights Policy. The policy is meant to guide operations and welfare of the institution. The policy which has been in the pipeline for the last four years was funded by the British High Commission in …
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Washington, United States | AFP | During 14 years of intrepid exploration across Mars, it advanced human knowledge by confirming that water once flowed on the red planet — but NASA’s Opportunity rover has analyzed its last soil sample. The robot has been missing since the US space agency lost …
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Miami, United States | AFP | On Valentine’s Day of last year, a 19-year-old armed with a military-style assault rifle walked into his old high school in Parkland, Florida and slaughtered 17 people. That spasm in America’s epidemic of gun violence gave new impetus to the debate on controlling firearms, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Gender, Labour and Social Development Ministry, has up to one week to table proposed amendments to National Social Security Fund Act, 1985. The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah made the ruling on Wednesday after the Youth and Children Affairs State Minister; Florence Nakiwala …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State House Anti-Corruption Monitoring Unit has picked five officers from Arua municipality and a school bursar for alleged financial impropriety. The suspects are Khamil Erejo, the Arua Municipal Chief Finance Officer, Martin Alia, the internal Auditor, Dradria Anthony, Municipal Engineer, Mathew Afubo, Senior Assistant …
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Berlin, Germany | AFP | With strong female lead roles from a saviour of street kids to a fiery mafia-fighter and an inspiring figure with Down Syndrome, directors have given girl power a firm place at this year’s Berlin film festival. Films at the event, which is also welcoming an …
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Paris, France | AFP | European aerospace giant Airbus said Thursday it would end production of the A380 superjumbo, the double-decker jet which earned plaudits from passengers but failed to win over enough airlines to justify its massive costs. The firm said it would stop deliveries in 2021 of the A380, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) has asked the parliamentary committee on Physical Infrastructure to include the creation of an independent landlord-tenant tribunal in the Landlord and Tenant Bill, 2013. This was one of the proposals KACITA Chairman Everest Kayondo presented to the committee on the …
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Beijing, China | AFP | US and Chinese negotiators kicked off two days of high-level trade talks in Beijing on Thursday hoping to resolve a festering dispute that has cast a shadow over financial markets and the global growth outlook. Pressure to seal an accord ahead of a March 1 deadline set by Donald Trump …
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No one deserves to die from excessive peer pressure because of failure to re-pay a micro-credit loan COMMENT | Nathan Were |The Daily Monitor newspaper of February 02, 2019 led with a sad story of Gubindi – a resident of Jinja town in eastern Uganda who, after failure to …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
