Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has earmarked 135 Billion Shillings to avert the hunger crisis in the Karamoja sub-region in the next three months. The intervention was announced by the Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja in Parliament during a plenary sitting on Tuesday. According to Nabbanja, the decision was …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unknown thugs on Tuesday night broke into the Mengo Chief Magistrates Court in Kampala and stole unspecified number of court documents. The thugs gained access to the court through the back and entered the cashier’s office and broke into the Small Claims Procedure office. Sources …

Kampala, Uganda | Patrcia Akankwatsa | On July 8th, the Aga Khan Foundation through the European Union awarded grants from the Early Years Foundation which will help them recover from the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown. The Aga Khan Foundation partnered with the Early Years Foundation, the Uganda …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala City Trader’s Association-KACITA has called for the reduction of the Central Bank Rate-CBR, saying it has made borrowing from commercial banks very expensive. CBR is the rate that is used by the Central bank to implement or signal its monetary policy stance. It is …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Minister of Agriculture Hope Ruhindi Mwesigye has expressed doubt over the Parish Development Model that is being implemented by the government as a tool to uplift the livelihood of 39% of Ugandans from subsistence to cash economy. The former Kabale District Woman MP …

Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of trucks have piled up at Elegu border point in Elegu town council, Amuru district following violence that erupted across the South Sudan border town of Nimule on Monday. Traffic came to a standstill for the better part of Monday after angry locals staged …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council-UMSC, the highest decision making organ of the Muslim umbrella body has started discussing the draft amended constitution. It comes almost a week after the Constitutional Review Commission chaired by Prof. Idris Serugo Kasenene, handed over the draft amended constitution to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The banking industry is worried over the rate at which the cost of living in Uganda is rising threatening the recovery of the economy. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics reports that headline inflation steadily increased to 6.8 per cent at the end of June, from …

London, UK | Xinhua | Eight candidates have been nominated to enter the race to be the leader of the Conservative Party and replace outgoing Boris Johnson as prime minister of the United Kingdom (UK), the party’s backbench 1922 Committee said on Tuesday. The eight contenders who successfully enlisted the required …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of local government accounting officers from Acholi sub-region have attributed delays in submitting their budget estimates for FY2022/23 to system errors on the Ministry of Finance Programme Budgeting System [PBS] software. This comes days after the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, …