Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Wildlife Authority and Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) have got a boost of vehicles from the Private Sector Foundation to help boost the tourism sector. Officials in the tourism sector have today launched the busses and safari cars acquired through the Competitiveness and Enterprise …
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Pallet wood: Creativity, innovation, recycling, pushing boundaries of art Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Good art can be made from anything, regardless of the material used. This is evident in a current exhibition titled `Possibilities: Unspecified qualities of a promising nature’. On show are constructions; abstract and functional …
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Luanda, Angola | AFP | Angolan President Joao Lourenco on Monday denied “any tension” with his long-serving predecessor Jose Eduardo dos Santos, many of whose relatives and friends he has sacked from public office in a fight against corruption in the oil-rich southern African nation. In November, within three months …
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Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Hundreds of Sudanese students from the University of Khartoum threw stones at anti-riot police Monday on a third day of protests against soaring bread prices, an AFP correspondent reported. Bread prices more than doubled last week as flour manufacturers raised prices on dwindling wheat supplies …
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Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwean anti-corruption investigators said Monday they are probing whether former first lady Grace Mugabe fraudulently obtained a doctorate that she apparently received within months and the dissertation for which remains unpublished. Grace, whose apparent desire to succeed her 93-year-old husband prompted the army takeover that …
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Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Egyptians will head to the polls on March 26-28 in the first round of a presidential election, National Elections Authority chief Lasheen Ibrahim said on Monday. A second round will be held on April 24-26 if required, he told a news conference in Cairo. Ibrahim …
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Beaucaire, France | AFP | A far right local authority in southern France on Monday scrapped pork-free school meals, a move branded “anti-Muslim” or “anti-Jewish” by an equality minister. Julien Sanchez, the National Front mayor of Beaucaire, a town south of Avignon, abolished the scheme, brought in by his predecessor, …
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Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Egypt is building a major water treatment and desalination plant, the president said Monday, as the Nile-dependent nation plans for any fallout from an upstream dam being built by Ethiopia. The North African country is constructing “the largest wastewater treatment and desalination plant”, President Abdel …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | A Kampala City socialite Brian Kirumira aka Bryan White was on Monday granted bail by Makindye Chief Magistrate’s court. Chief magistrate Elias Kakooza ordered Kirumira to pay a cash bail of sh10 million, deposit his passport in court and never to fly out of …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Jailed senior police officer Nixon Agasiirwe Karuhanga has petitioned the High Court – Civil division seeking to challenge his trial before the Court-Martial in Makindye. The former commandant of Special Operations Unit Nixon Agasirwe is facing charges of alleged kidnap of three Rwandese nationals. …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
