Sembabule, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Spokesman Ofwono Opondo has called for calm as fears of violence rose on the eve of Friday’s National Resistance Movement NRM party primaries. “My appeal to NRM members is that shame the naysayers by conducting free and fair elections,” he said hours to …

    Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has responded to social media posts alleging he is a Munyarwanda, saying not only is it not true, but those peddling the lies undermine the NRM’s Pan-African vision. In his missive, a response to comments to his online postings last …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The already hotly contested National Resistance Movement-NRM national party primaries took another twist two days to the polls, when President Yoweri Museveni directed that all members with cards and not on the register be allowed to vote. Museveni said in his September 2 …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Controversial Gulu businesswoman Harriet Aber has been found dead in her bed. Aber who was in her early 40’s and has been cited in land grabbing cases was on Wednesday morning found dead reportedly by her children in her residence in Kasubi Sub Ward …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |   Two tourists are feared dead after their boat was carried by the river Nile current towards Kiira Power station, whose spillways were open to release excess water. ESKOM confirmed the Sunday evening incident, saying a family of four and a lone boater who tried …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | With just hours left to the 2020 virtual Rotary Cancer Run, Buganda Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga, has pledged his participation in the virtual Rotary Cancer Run to be held on the 30th of August 2020. The Cancer run has for the past 9 years …

  ✳ Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1 (Arsenal win 5-4 pen) London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | Last season’s FA Cup winners Arsenal beat reigning Premier League champions Liverpool on penalties in the Community Shield on a day when 13 clubs stepped up their preparations for the new season. With exactly two weeks to go until …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Uganda has fastest COVID rate in Africa: Fear rising of another lockdown THE LAST WORD Behind the coup in Mali: The things that democracy (and pseudo democracy) evangelists need to know about freedom …

    Washington, US | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Daily Show on Thursday took out full-page adverts in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times Thursday, mocking US President Donald Trump hours before his Republican National Convention speech. The Ugandan influence on the show, where David kibuka …

  Beijing, China | THE INDEPENDENT | Beijing-bred, Ugandan-Chinese Zhu Mingzhen has been called to the China national basketball team. Born in Beijing to a Mandarin-speaking Ugandan diplomat and a Chinese mother, Zhu, a graduate of Peking University’s Chinese University Basketball Association (CUBA) program, becomes China’s first adult national team member of …