Tokyo, Japan | Xinhua | Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday said its year-on-year production rose for the first time in five months in August as the negative effects of a global semiconductor crunch eased. The Aichi Prefecture-based automaker also said its worldwide production increased from a year earlier by 44.3 percent …

Kaliro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 17-year-old boy was on Wednesday shot dead during an operation by the Fisheries Protection Unit in Kaliro district. Reagan Damba, a senior two student at Bulamogi college in Gadumire sub-county was shot in the back and he bled to death. It is alleged that members …

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever usually transmitted by ticks Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An outbreak of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever has been confirmed in Amuru district. Health officials revealed on Thursday that samples taken from an 18-year-old man who succumbed over the weekend tested positive for the …

Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State House Anti-Corruption Unit has arrested five officials of the Fort Portal city lands department for allegedly selling public land. The officials are Nansubuga Shamim, senior staff surveyor, Simon Peter Kugonza from the lands office, David Mwesige Baguma, former chairperson of lands committee West …

Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two police officers have been arrested to help with investigations into the shooting in Bukasa, Wakiso district that left one woman severely injured. Those arrested are Erisa Muhumuza and Evelyne Akello, both police officers attached to the Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA enforcement team. Kampala Metropolitan Police …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legal Brains Trust has petitioned the Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala seeking issuance of criminal summons against parties in the case in which businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba and his brother are accused of tax evasion and forgery of a judicial document. The petition signed by the Chief …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawmakers have rejected a proposal by President Museveni to include the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) in the Fisheries and Monitoring Unit, under the Fisheries and Aquaculture Bill, 2021 to prevent illegal fishing. Parliament had initially passed the Bill in May 2022 but the President did …

Bali, Indonesia | Xinhua | The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned Wednesday that conflicts and climate-related impacts will remain as major drivers behind food crises, and called for resilience and more efforts for peace. Soaring global food prices sparked in part by the conflict between …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Statutory authorities involved in the financial sector regulation have admitted that some of the business cooperators find it a burden to comply with the requirements of the different regulators. With new businesses coming up, including cryptocurrency trade, collective investment schemes and use of trading agencies, as …

 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda Breweries Limited hosted farmers on Wednesday to a forum to discuss the potential to scale up farming to supplement government efforts to see manufactures embrace full local sourcing of raw materials they use in their production processes. The forum which run under the theme …