Dodoma, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | MP Condester Michael Sichlwe, 31 was thrown out of Tanzania’s parliament Tuesday, wearing ‘tight-fitting trousers’, referred to locally as ‘suruali iliyombana’. After another CCM party MP Hussein Amar sought guidance on the dressing code, Speaker of Parliament Job Ndugai threw her out for wearing ‘non-parliamentary …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Buganda Kingdom has called for thorough investigations into the shooting of former Transport and Works Minister, Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala. On Tuesday, unidentified gunmen shot dead Wamala’s daughter Brenda Nantongo and his driver, Haruna Kayondo died on the spot while the General escaped with …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | General Katumba Wamala’s home, where he left in the morning before he was shot, is found in Bulabira in Najjera II. This area neighbours Kulambiro, a city suburb where former Police Spokesperson, Assistant Inspector General of Police- AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi was gunned down on …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Medical Stores has began training health workers across the country ahead of a planned national rollout of the new NMS Plus Platform, an initiative which will be used to enhance transparency in procurement and delivery of medicines. The NMS plus initiative that starts …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | General Katumba Wamala and his daughter Brenda Wamala Nantogo 27, were shot today while on their way to a vigil in Najjanankumbi. Gunmen Tuesday morning intercepted General Katumba, who was in his vehicle registration number H4DF 2138 along Kisaasi-Kisota road, and sprayed it with …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPEDNENT | A joint security team has arrested 44 suspects, mostly men who were found dressed like women with hair wigs and makeup attending a marriage introduction ceremony (kwanjula). In a short statement, Charles Twine, the Spokesperson of the Criminal Investigations Directorate, says that the suspects …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) is puzzled over the whereabouts of the body guards of General Katumba Wamala, the former army commander and Works and Transport Minister, who was shot at this morning. Unidentified gunmen riding on motorcycles intercepted Katumba Wamala’s vehicle registration …

✳ Zahara Luyirika – 43 ✳ Namusisi Shamim – 8 ✳ Invalid votes – 1 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Zahara Luyirika, the National Unity Platform Party-NUP candidate has been elected Speaker of Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA. Buganda Road Chief Magistrate Ayo Miriam Okello declared Luyirika, the Woman Councillor …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President and Commander in Chief Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has wished General Katumba Wamala quick recovery, describing his assailants as ‘ pigs who do not value life’. He said he had also wished that the bodyguard shot to kill the assailants, not just in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fresh details emerging from the scene where assassins sprayed the vehicle of General Katumba Wamala with bullets this morning show that the gunmen also shot an unidentified person in a nearby storied building. Isaac Kawonawo, the Wakiso Deputy Resident District Commissioner in Charge of …