Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is on track to achieve all its 2015-2025 strategic objectives by 2025, and even earlier in some instances, their new Managing Director Patrick Ayota has stated. He has also promised that the Fund will yet again pay a competitive interest …
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New York, US | Xinhua | The General Debate of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, focusing on restoring global trust and solidarity in current challenging time. Dennis Francis, president of the 78th session of the UN …
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Beijing, China | Xinhua | China’s top economic planner on Wednesday said that positive factors concerning China’s economy are accumulating and that China naysayers will be disappointed yet again. As existing and incremental policies take synergistic effect, China’s economy will rebound and sustain a long-term upward momentum, Cong Liang, deputy …
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Chicago, US | Xinhua | The Detroit-based United Auto Workers (UAW) has set Friday as a deadline for more walkout as the union’s strike against the Big Three U.S. automakers enters the fifth day. If the union does not see serious progress in negotiations with the three companies, it will …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court has allowed an application by the Karamoja Affairs Minister, Mary Gorreti Kitutu to cross-examine government witnesses in a case, where she is challenging her trial for the diversion of iron sheets. Kitutu is challenging her trial on grounds of torture and several …
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Impact of Covid, peacekeeping and hydro politics on Uganda tackled Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | With Uganda playing an increasingly prominent role in international relations through peacekeeping and military intervention, enacting draconian laws with foreign policy implications like the Anti-Homosexuality Act, there is growing interest on what shapes …
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Buyende, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A woman was electrocuted in Buyende district Tuesday while drying her clothes on wire lines reportedly carrying electricity to her house. The deceased is 24-year-old Evelyn Namulondo, a resident of Iringa village in Nkondo sub-county. Eyewitnesses recounted hearing a loud blast before seeing Namulondo …
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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Twenty-two residents of Soroti City have been sentenced to one week of community service or face six months of imprisonment for causing a public nuisance. The Soroti Grade One Magistrate, Nause Tumuhimbise, convicted the accused individuals on Tuesday based on their own guilty pleas. …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A think tank pressure group comprised of indigenous elite Acholi political and social change activists has demanded the cancellation of all titles acquired through fraudulent sales of customary land in the region. This group, known as Ribbe Pi Paco – RPP, loosely translated as “Unity …
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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society Organizations in the Karamoja sub-region are demanding the operations of the District Non-Governmental Organizations Monitoring Committees. The NGO Act, 2016 provides for the establishment of a District NGO Monitoring Committee in every district and sub-county to oversee the operations of partners at …
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