Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) officials have been summoned to parliament to explain why the sh48billion Soroti fruit factory is yet to start operations, three years after it was built. During the plenary sitting of Parliament on 21 February 2019, Kumi County MP Charles Ilukor …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Christians have been urged to shun social media during the lent period. The call was made by Fr. Pius Yobuta, the Parish Priest of Christ the King Parish Arua. Speaking during the Ash Wednesday mass, Yobuta told Christians to avoid social media sites like …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has summoned the Attorney General to appear in the House this week after MPs questioned the involvement of the UPDF in the fishing industry particularly on Lake Victoria. The Attorney General is expected to explain the laws regulating the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Next week’s  Africa Now Conference organised by the African Strategic Leadership Centre in Kampala will bring together Africa’s eminent personalities and high ranking government officials to discuss critical drivers of development particularly leadership, institutions, factor endowments, human capital, trade, international relations, technology and innovation. The conference that …

Rome, Italy | AFP |  Pope Francis denounced the deceptiveness of “the culture of appearance” in a ceremony marking Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, the 40-day period before Easter when Catholics traditionally fast. “Earthly realities fade away like dust in the wind,” said the pope at the Basilica …

  COMMENT | SAMUEL KARIUKI | The last 20 years of real estate boom in East Africa has changed our building landscape and inventory, as it quite rightly should have done. Our starting point was a region that was short of every kind of building, from housing, to shops, through …

    Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leading experts in Uganda’s tourism and hospitality sector are set to discuss creative approaches companies can harness to grow their businesses, at the third edition of Innovation Series Thursday, 7th March 2019 at Golf Course Hotel in Kampala. Eight speakers from different …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Africa Now Summit 2019 slated for March 12th and 13th at the Commonwealth Hotel in Munyonyo comes at a time when there are socioeconomic changes both within Africa and globally. Africa Strategic Leadership Centre (ASLC), organizers of the much anticipated summit are taking …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Total Uganda on March 01 awarded Shs 150million to the top three winners of the Startupper of the Year by Total Challenge, as seed capital to kick-start and fund their business ideas. The winners include Arnold Mugaga, whose innovative idea is to address …

Rwanda, Uganda in diplomatic war of words over rebel ‘support’ Kigali, Rwanda | AFP |  Rwanda accused its much larger neighbour Uganda on Tuesday of supporting rebels opposed to the government in Kigali, a claim firmly rebutted by Kampala. Rwandan Foreign Minister Richard Sezibera told journalists that Kigali had information …