📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 DELAYED BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – start – June 7 ▶ P6, S3 & S5 – re-start – June 7 ▶ P4-P5 – holidays – June 4 📌 3-year plan to harmonize school calendar ✳ Terms 12 weeks ✳ Holidays 15-17 days ✳ No exams ✳ 2021 starts …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  President Yoweri Museveni has said the gun used in the attack of Gen Wamala Katumba early this week has been identified as the same used in the murder of Maj. Sheikh Mohammed Kiggundu, 52 in 2016. (CLICK to read Kiggundu murder details) He also …

🔴 The awardees for this year’s WOA Grants 🇲🇱 Mali 🇵🇦 Panama 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇫🇷 France 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 🇺🇬 Uganda 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇮🇹 Italy Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Olympics Committee has got a grant that will enable it to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans have been encouraged to include a glass of milk in their daily diet, as another immunity boosting food that will enable them fight the COVID-19 virus. The Uganda Veterinary Association (UVA), in a statement to mark World Milk Day which it celebrated virtually …

  Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | KCB Bank Uganda has handed over Personal Protective Gear (PPE) and a sum of sh8.7 million for the procurement of class desks to Ayile Primary School in Lira District as it seeks to improve the learning conditions for children in rural areas. While handing …

  The programme with aim to reach at least 40,000 young people in 8 countries – Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Ghana, Jordan and Lebanon Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) has announced a collaboration with IBM to empower young women and men in Africa and …

COMMENT | Samson Tinka |  Early morning of June 1, 2021, Uganda’s media was flooded with images, short videos and news of the death of Gen. Katumba Wamala’s daughter, his driver and the near miss of the former army commander himself. Still unknown people on motorcycles were responsible for this criminal …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Uganda Army commander Gen Katumba Wamala has issued a statement a day after he survived an assassination attempt, thanking a boda boda rider who forced him onto his bike to seek medical attention. (READ FULL STATMENT BOTTOM) VIDEO: I have survived. We have …

  London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT |  Britain remains in “a vulnerable position” in fighting coronavirus despite the progress of the country’s vaccination program, a scientist advising the British government said Tuesday. Professor Adam Finn from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises the government on vaccine priority, …

Baghdad, Iraq | XINHUA |  Iraq’s Ministry of Oil said on Tuesday that the country exported 89.88 million barrels of crude oil in May, bringing in revenues of about 5.88 billion U.S. dollars. The average selling price for crude oil last month was 65.45 dollars per barrel, according to a …