Kampala, Uganda| THE INDEPENDENT REPORTER | Africa’s best home-based football player of 2016 Denis Onyango is favourite to be named Uganda’s Sportsman Of The Year 2016 on Friday night. Onyango, named best African Player of the Year Based in Africa early this year, is one of three nominate for the Uganda Sports …

Friday (playing for 5th-8th positions) Uganda vs South Africa 1pm Jamaica vs Scotland 11am Semi-finals New Zealand vs Fiji 5pm Australia vs England 7pm Quarterfinal results  FT: Uganda ??  37  –  Fiji ??  39 (see video and tweet feed bottom) FT: New Zealand 69 South Africa 32 Gaborone, Botswana | THE INDEPENDENT REPORTER | Uganda’s …

 Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI |  Jailed Ruhinda County Member of Parliament Rtd Captain Donozio Kahonda is to stay in prison for two more weeks until July 24, 2017 when  Jinja High Court Judge Eva Luswata will preside over his bail application. This because on Thursday, there was no prosecutor …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI |  A section of Members of Parliament (MPs) on Thursday vowed to rally their colleagues in Uganda’s Parliament to shoot down the proposed Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2017. The MPs argued that if enacted into law, instead of helping government acquire land for development, the proposed …

Chicago, United States | AFP |  The Chicago Sun-Times, the city’s oldest continuously published daily and winner of eight Pulitzer prizes, has been sold to an investor group, reportedly for $1. The newspaper, which traces its history to 1844, reported Thursday it was purchased by an investment group led by …

Washington, United States | AFP |  US authorities announced charges Thursday against more than 400 people, many of them doctors and nurses, over health care scams worth $1.3 billion including the wrongful prescription and distribution of opioids. The Justice Department called it the largest ever enforcement action of its kind …

Juba, South Sudan | AFP |  South Sudan’s government sacked a dozen judges who had been on strike for the past two months, the country’s information minister told AFP on Thursday. “The president yesterday issued an order relieving some of the judges,” Michael Makuei said, without explaining the reasons for …

Deputy Attorney General of Uganda Mwesigwa Rukutana has today read Bill 13, The Constitution Amendment Bill 2017,  that proposes acquisition of public land upon compensation. It was presented by Rukutana “for the first reading” and Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, according to the rules of procedure, committed the bill to the …

Shenyang, China | AFP |  China’s Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo died Thursday after a battle with cancer, remaining in custody until the end as officials ignored international pleas to let him spend his final days free and abroad. The prominent democracy advocate died aged 61, more than a month after …

Gaborone, Botswana | AFP |  The Dalai Lama will visit Botswana next month and meet with President Ian Khama in a trip likely to anger China, a key investor across Africa and its largest trade partner. Beijing views the Dalai Lama as a dangerous separatist campaigning for Tibetan independence and …