Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Law Development Center has postponed its graduation after the term of the Management Committee expired last month. The graduation was scheduled to take place on May 20 for students who sat the examinations late last year. The nine-member management Committee is a critical …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda Opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye has been arrested outside his home after he attempted to revive his ‘Walk to work’ protests. Security officials say he has now been put under house arrest. He attempted to walk to Kampala in protest of the unreasonable …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Vaccine Access Initiative, a subsidiary of Microhaem Scientific and Medical Supplies Company has finalised plans to manufacture polio vaccines at its Ntinda-based facility. Dr Cedric Akwesigye, Microhaem’s Managing Director told URN in an interview on Wednesday that they have entered a technological transfer …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Heart Institute – UHI is under the spotlight for failing to declare a donation of Shillings 1.76 billion contrary to the provisions of the Public Finance Management Act, 2015. According to the Auditor General’s report for the FY 2020/21, the Institute received Shillings …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Another person has died bringing to three, the number of the Bunyangabu ambulance fire victims. The latest victim is Donah, who was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital-FRRH. Two others including Peter Baluku, an emergency nurse from Bwera hospital …

Yaounde, Cameroon | Xinhua | Cameroonian Minister of Transport Jean Ernest Ngalle Bibehe on late Wednesday reported the loss of radio contact with an aircraft with 11 people on board. Bibehe said in a statement the aircraft was located finally in the forests near Nanga Eboko, a locality in the …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | The Russian military said that it had obtained new information revealing details of “the Pentagon’s inhuman experiments on Ukrainian citizens” in a psychiatric hospital in Ukraine’s Kharkov region. “The main category of the experimental subjects was a group of male patients aged 40-60 with a …

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Vice President, Jessica Alupo has handed over 140 motorcycles to the sub county chairpersons in Teso sub-region. The Yamaha XTZ 125E model motorcycles worth over sh2 billion were delivered by the Nile Fishing Company on behalf of Yamaha Motor Company. They were delivered on …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspectorate of Government (IG) has recommended the dismissal of three officials from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) in Lamwo District implicated in the mismanagement of Shillings 1.2 billion. They are Julius Kamuza, the settlement Commandant, Byasali Kabi the Protection officer, and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The committee that was established to investigate the utilization of funds meant to facilitate the COVID-19 vaccine development by the Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Dr. Monica Musenero has pinned the Minister saying that the process was marred with irregularities. Xavier Kyooma, the …