Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | After a significant period of waiting, both private and public schools will finally receive the textbooks for the new curriculum, the Ministry of Education and Sports has announced. Despite the implementation of the new curriculum in 2020, numerous aspects ranging from teacher training to the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Central Executive Committee (CEC) has finally tabled quarterly reports for the financial year 2022/2023 before the Council, just two weeks before the end of the fiscal year. The reports were presented by Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura, following months of demands from …
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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 89,000 children under the age of five and 10,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women in the nine districts of Karamoja are in dire need of immediate assistance due to severe malnutrition. This distressing revelation comes from the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has been cleared to receive another 120 million dollars (440 billion shillings) loan under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF Executive Board on Wednesday concluded the fourth review of Uganda’s ECF, And this now enables the immediate …
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Ottawa, Canada | XINHUA | The U.S. Coast Guard announced on Thursday that a debris field found by searchers near the Titanic earlier in the day is wreckage from the missing Titan submersible. In a press briefing Thursday afternoon, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said a remotely operated …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Finance, in charge of General Duties, Henry Musasizi has said that sh22 billion has been released to the Ministry of Health to pay and deploy the interns. Health Minister Ruth Aceng however said the sh22 billion is not enough. She …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has ordered the Attorney General and Ambassador James Idule Amoko to file their defense in the case in which the biological children of the late Supreme Court Justice Stella Arach are contesting her burial in Adjumani District. The order …
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Entebbe, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY | CFAO Motors (Formerly Toyota Motors) has staked a brand new Toyota Corolla Cross( $43,500) for an ace on Hole 10 at this Saturday’s MTN Monthly Tee at Entebbe Club. The Japanese Car Provider made the announcement and signed a two year partnership with …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Various traders, together with the Kampala city traders’ Associations – KACITA, want the government to extend the rollout of the digital number plates, at least for one year. This call has come at a time, when the national rollout of the use of these …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The burial of Justice Stella Arach Amoko has been postponed to an unknown date. According to the Chief Registrar Sarah Langa Siu, the burial will not go on as planned on June 23rd, 2023 due to factors beyond their control as the judiciary. “This …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
