Police have used “Fog Reveal” to search hundreds of billions of records from 250 million mobile devices New York, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. police agencies, without search warrants, have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool to follow people’s movements, a U.S. media outlet has reported. According to public records …
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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The first deputy Prime Minister Rebecca Kadaga has stressed that leaders fighting against the Nyege Nyege festival to start on Thursday at the Itanda falls in Butagaya sub county, Jinja district want to economically sabotage Busoga sub region. While representing President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Capital City Council-KCCA Council has resolved to conduct investigations into the irregular operations of law enforcement officers. The resolution stems from a report about the conduct of the officers that was presented by the Central Executive Committee. During a council sitting on Tuesday, …
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But the houses are too expensive for the average Ugandan Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda’s pension fund has placed more than 370 housing units for sale at its Lubowa Housing Project on Entebbe Road in Wakiso District but they are expensive to the average local population. NSSF Managing …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawmakers want the National Forestry Authority (NFA) audited over the disappearing forest cover in the country. They accuse the forestry body of championing activities which have led to deforestation, contrary to their mandate of promoting tree planting. This was during debate of the report of …
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Why new British PM needs to pay more attention to the continent NEW ANALYSIS | NICHOLAS WESTCOTT | New British Prime Minister Liz Truss has never said much in public about Africa. But, in my view, her administration must pay more attention to its relationship with Africa. African countries are …
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Bukwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bukwo LCV chairperson Julius Moses Chelimo is wanted by the Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID for alleged defilement and trafficking, police spokesperson Fred Enanga has revealed. “We are hunting for the chairman LC5 Bukwo district. He has a lot of power and influence in the district …
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Juba, South Sudan | Xinhua | South Sudan’s oil and gas sector is being crippled by years of sanctions imposed by the Security Council following the outbreak of armed conflict in the country in 2013, experts said on Tuesday. Puot Kang Chol, Minister of Petroleum, said that the sanctions are curtailing …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The HealthTech Hub Africa, founded by the Novartis Foundation and the Norrsken Foundation, and located at the Norrsken East Africa House in Kigali, has announced the second Africa HealthTech Challenge. The HealthTech Hub Africa is a health tech accelerator with a physical co-working and community …
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Who is she and why has she replaced Boris Johnson? | NICHOLAS ALLEN | The United Kingdom’s new prime minister is Liz Truss. After a two-month contest, Conservative Party members chose her as their new leader. She then travelled to Balmoral in Scotland where she was formally invited by the …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
