Kapchorwa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Kapchorwa are asking municipal authorities to formulate an ordinance to regulate street children in the municipality. They say that the rapid growth in the number of street children is causing insecurity. The demand follows an incident where two street children from Kapchorwa were …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A scan recommended by the Uganda Police has revealed that 25-year-old Muhammad Kabanda, who accused Old Kampala Hospital of harvesting his kidney was born without the second kidney. According to an abdominal scan conducted by Associate Professor Kiguli Malwadde, a specialist radiologist at Kampala Imaging …

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | Xinhua | Captain Ibrahim Traore, who led a coup to topple Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba on Sept. 30, has been officially appointed to lead the transitional period of Burkina Faso, according to a agreement reached by a national assembly Friday evening in Ouagadougou, the capital city. Traore …

Mubende, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has suspended movement to and from Mubende and Kassanda districts to control the spread of the Ebola virus. The lockdown will last 21 days. In his address to the nation on Saturday evening, Museveni said there will be no movement from anywhere …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | There is a risk of geopolitical fragmentation, as geopolitics turn into geo-economics with negative impacts, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Friday. “Emerging markets and developing countries have stressed that for them, it is paramount that they have the opportunity to drive …

Napak, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Napak district leaders are calling for more relief food from the government and well-wishers to complement the little produce from harvests. The call follows the poor harvest experienced in this planting season. John Paul Kodet, the LCV Chairperson for Napak district says although the government …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Association of Prosecutors (UAP), an umbrella body that links all prosecutors across the country is protesting the arrest of Edwin Mbabazi, the Kabale District State Attorney over allegations of receiving a small bribe of 125,000 Shillings. Mbabazi was arrested on Thursday by a team of …

Bukwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Bukwo district have arrested two men for attempting to murder a woman over a land wrangle in Kululu village, Aralam parish, Riwo sub county. Aminis Kayondo, the Bukwo district police commander named the two suspects as Patrick Siwa, aged 58 and Micheal Kipsang, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of legislators are mooting a plan to introduce a bill prohibiting Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). The move follows the recent approval by the Kenyan Cabinet to lift the 2012 moratorium, that restricted the importation or open cultivation of GMO crops. The decision made …

United Nations | Xinhua | A UN spokesman said Friday that peacekeepers in South Sudan are gravely concerned about the fighting between two armed Dinka youth groups in the country’s north. Deadly clashes between the Dinka Ngok and Dinka Twic Mayardit youth in the border area between the Abyei administrative area …