According to a recent digital news report, Kenya, South Africa, and Nigeria continue to have high levels of trust for the news, despite younger audiences increasingly turning to Tiktok for updates. SPECIAL FEATURE | BIRD AGENCY | According to the recently released Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023, Kenya has …
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Ojangole receives the Award for the third time in a row. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Development Bank’s Managing Director, Patricia Ojangole has for the third year running won the Sustainability Leader of the Year Award at the prestigious Annual Karlsruhe Sustainable Finance Awards. The recognition is given …
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NATO members have been divided on how to bring Ukraine closer to their bloc. Vinlius, Lithuania | Xinhua | Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday failed to set a timetable for Ukraine’s membership of the alliance, following the first day of the NATO summit in the …
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Rukungiri, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rukungiri Grade One Magistrate’s court has scheduled July 21st, 2023, as the hearing date for the restatement application filed by Fortunate Kyarikunda. The application seeks to set aside a ruling in favor of Richard Tumwiine regarding a breach of a marriage promise. Kyarikunda lodged …
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Kikube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legislators from Kikuube district are calling on the government to urgently resettle over 1,000 individuals who were forcibly evicted from their ancestral land in Kyangwali sub-county within the Bugoma forest reserve. The affected group consists of men, women, and children who were forcefully removed …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has promised to study the Parish Development Model, a poverty alleviation project in order to come up with a model that is in tandem with Muslim money-borrowing principles. He made the commitment on Tuesday while meeting some of the Muslim leaders at …
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Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One person was confirmed dead and several other passengers injured following an accident involving a coach from Link Bus Services on Tuesday night along the Kyenjojo – Fort Portal road. Vincent Twesige, the Rwenzori West Police Spokesperson identified the deceased as Dauda Kawawu, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The rampant road carnage in the country has reawakened concerns on road safety, with the Speaker, Anita Among calling for implementation of the Road Safety Act. Speaker Among made the directive on Tuesday, 11 July 2023. “In 2019, we passed the Road Safety Act …
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Bukeda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The hotly contested Bukedea LCV Chairperson by-election has left several officials including security heads behind bars. The latest suspects are the Bukedea Resident District Commissioner- RDC, William Wilberforce Tukei, and the District Police Commander- DPC, Charles Okoto. The duo was picked from their respective …
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Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unknown gunmen have shot dead Richard Lokany, the LC I chairperson of Tedopee Village in Lukung Sub County in Lamwo district, and injured two other people including Alex Okoda and Bosco Okwang. The attack took place on Monday afternoon while Lokany and his colleagues …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
