Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mothers in Kotido district have been warned against starving their children so as to benefit from food and cash relief from well-wishers. Development partners like the World Food Programme-WFP recently started giving 50 kilograms of food, 3 liters of cooking oil, and cash vouchers of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Ministry of Health said it had registered four more cases of the deadly Ebola virus, bringing the country’s total number of confirmed cases to 15. The ministry said in a tweet late on Saturday there are 29 active cases on admission and 19 deaths, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Old Kampala Mosque has secured employed a sign language interpreter to enable the hearing impaired during prayers. In the past, the hearing impaired were never given priority leaving many stuck during Friday prayers. Hajji Nasser Ssebugwawo, the sign language interpreter and a teacher at Uganda …

New York, US | Xinhua | Humanitarian needs around the world have grown “exponentially” over the past 10 years due to rising armed conflicts and effects of climate change, pandemic as well as long-term development challenges, Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said on …

New York, US | Xinhua | The COVID-19 pandemic and an unequal recovery have cost the world three years of development progress, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday at the 46th Annual Meeting of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Group of 77 and China. Guterres said that advancing the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Judiciary is yet to identify judges who will be allocated 15 election petitions that were sent back to the High Court for a fresh hearing. Following the general elections of 2021, the Judiciary registered 160 petitions at the Parliamentary and local Council levels. …

Beijing, China | Xinhua | President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to the China News Service (CNS) on its 70th founding anniversary, stressing the importance of innovating the discourse system and improving the capacity for international communication. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) …

Major Mugisa says UPDF will renovate the damaged house   Fort Portal, Uganda | URN & XINHUA | A Uganda People’s Defense Force- UPDF helicopter has crashed in Fort Portal in the west of the country. The UPDF confirmed the accident, saying the helicopter tikely suffered a mechanical malfunction. The MI-24 helicopter …

 Ugandan vlogger wins millions of followers recording China’s rural life Hangzhou, China | Xinhua | When Rose Mary Adikin, from Uganda, married a Chinese man and settled in a Chinese village eight years ago, everything seemed strange to her. Now, she is no different from the local wives, speaking fluent …

Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbarara University of Science and Technology has developed a new organic fertilizer. The Organic Fertilizer, I-Soft Organic Fertilizer was innovated and developed by students of the Faculty of Agriculture and Livelihood in collaboration with the Mbarara Grapes Farmers Association, and Mbarara Agricultural Research Development …