Nairobi, Kenya | AFP & THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s President and chairman of the East African Community (EAC) Yoweri Museveni is one of the first leaders to jet into Nairobi for the swearing in of Uhuru Kenyatta. Museveni arrived in Nairobi on Monday evening and will be accompanied at the …

JOBS: Projects Manager IRC Uganda Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Projects Manager will take a leading role in the strategic development of the country programme, ensuring an integrated programme approach that adheres to IRC’s standards and policies. The Projects Manager will take specific responsibility for leading, coordinating, managing …

JOBS: Finance and Operations Manager IRC Uganda Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Finance and Operations Manager to be responsible for overseeing financial management for IRC in Uganda. JOB: Maintaining reliable records and books of accounts reflecting the true financial state of IRC Uganda at all times. As well as ensuring …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  A week after their arrest, editors and directors of one of Uganda’s most popular tabloid newspaper groups are in court to face charges over an article implicating President Yoweri Museveni in a plot to overthrow his Rwandan counterpart. The Red Pepper editors and directors were …

Nwoya, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has called upon Ugandans to adapt commercial agriculture. Speaking at the commissioning of the FOL Rice Farm in Lamoki village, Anaka Sub- County, Nwoya district in Acholi Sub-Region on Saturday, the President said that Ugandans needed to understand the difference between …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Uhuru Kenyatta will be sworn in for a second term as Kenya’s president on Tuesday, the final act of an electoral saga that exposed deep and lasting divisions in the country. His inauguration comes ahead after Kenya’s Supreme Court last Monday validated his poll victory, …

Patrick Amuriat   – 57.6% Mugisha Muntu  – 41.7% Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rtd Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu has conceded defeat after Friday’s Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential election, but blamed distrust by many members for his failure to retain the top opposition party job. FDC Electoral Commission …

FDC Provisional results  Patrick Amuriat   – 57.6% Mugisha Muntu  – 41.7% Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Provisional results from Mandela Stadium indicate that the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) 7th National Delegates Conference has elected former Kumi Country MP Eng. Patrick Amuriat president. FDC Electoral Commission head Dan Mugarura …

Provisional results from 4 of 6 polling stations Patrick Amuriat   – 107, 111, 111, 101 Mugisha Muntu  – 77, 76, 71, 82 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Vote counting has started at the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) 7th National Delegates Conference, with early reports from Mandela National Stadium Namboole …

Attack on mosque in Egypt’s Sinai kills at least 235 Cairo, Egypt | AFP |  Armed attackers on Friday killed at least 235 worshippers in a bomb and gun assault on a packed mosque in Egypt’s restive North Sinai province, in the country’s deadliest attack in recent memory. A bomb …