✳ Crystal Palace vs Arsenal 10pm London, UK | Xinhua | The Premier League gets underway this weekend with the title favorites looking to make an early statement of intent while three newly promoted teams aim to show they can hold their own in the elite. The round of matches kicks …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | America’s sanctions on Russia are not to blame for the increasing prices of food and petroleum products across the globe, the United States of America’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield has said. The world has recorded a sharp rise in prices …

Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Bwera LCI in Kyangwali sub county, Kikuube district have killed 40 cows and torched four houses belonging to Pastor George Baguma from Bwera Miracle church over land wrangles. The more than 500 residents are feuding with the pastor over approximately 300 acres of land …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Ad hoc Committee on Bujagali Hydropower Project have discovered what they described as inconsistencies in the ownership and registration of Bujagali Electricity Company Limited. The legislators established that the company won a multi-billion contract before it was even registered. The committee …

  Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the Commander in Chief, has appointed Uganda People’s Defence (UPDF) First Division commander Maj. Gen. Samuel Kawagga, as defence advisor at the High Commission in Nairobi. Museveni has replaced Gen. Kawagga with Brig. Gen Joseph Semwanga. Gen. Kawagga has …

Berlin, Germany | Xinhua | Rarely a season start of the Bundesliga has been more eagerly awaited than the 2022-2023 campaign. With the reigning champion Bayern Munich to open the show against Eintracht Frankfurt on Friday evening, the German league seems ahead of challenging rounds of matches. Despite having lost …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo says The Daily Monitor must stand its ground in defence of the truth and quality journalism as the newspaper marks thirty years of existence. Delivering a keynote address at a dialogue commemorating the thirty years since the founding of The Monitor, in 1992, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Committee on Finance, Planning and Economic Development has met officials from Uganda Manufacturers’ Association (UMA) and Uganda Plastic Recyclers Association to negotiate a settlement over the controversial US$70 levy on plastic imports in the country. The Excise Duty (Amendment) Act 2022 had levied a 2.5 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has promoted five Senior Commissioners of Police to Assistant Inspector General Police. The promoted police officers include Charles Birungi who replaced retired Andrew Soroweni as Director of Police Welfare and Production, Fadhil Kaali who is the commander of Field Force Police (FFP), James …

United Nations | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday affirmed the world body’s one-China policy as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit has created tensions. He clarified the position at a press conference for the launch of a report of his Global Crisis Response Group over the Ukraine …