Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 90 out of the 170 District and Division Police Commanders –DPC who completed a 3-months’ refresher course at Olilim Counter-Terrorism Training School last month have been redeployed at their former police stations. In a bid to revamp police resilience towards fighting crime, …
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COMMENT | THE INDEPENDENT | The Supreme Court on Monday delivered yet another ruling in favour of Sudhir Ruparelia in which it emphasized that the appeal filed before it by Bank of Uganda had no chance of success. This is the fourth application that has been won by …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 229 people perished in 1,407 road accidents recorded last month, according to the police’s Directorate of Traffic and Road Safety. Faridah Nampiima, the Traffic Directorate Spokesperson, said that the accidents which mostly emanated from reckless driving also resulted in serious and minor …
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San Francisco, USA | Xinhua | Facebook services were restored Monday afternoon after global users experienced outages on social networks Facebook owns, such as Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp for hours during the day. “We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID has dismissed claims that they are harassing the former Presidency Minister, Esther Mbayo. Recently, CID invited Mbayo to appear before the CID headquarters for interrogations in connection to the ongoing investigations into the embezzlement scandal at Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation-UPPC. “The Directorate of Criminal …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police Monday evening gunned down a suspected terrorist in Kyebando-Kawempe Division a Kampala City suburb. Fred Enanga, the Police Spokesperson has identified the deceased as Hamid Nsubuga, a suspected a suicide bomber who escaped from Pader district in Northern Uganda in August. “Nsubuga …
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Dubai, UAE | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija on Monday morning signed the first investment deal at the Dubai Expo, with global financing company, Modha Investments which focuses on commercial agriculture and food processing. Modha’s license in Uganda targets the development …
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San Francisco, USA | Xinhua | Global users on Monday experienced outages on Facebook, including social networks the company owns, such as Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. Service has not yet been restored. Navigation to these websites lead to the prompt of server error. Instagram shows a “5xx server error.” The …
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BGP ISSUES: When one types Facebook.com into a web browser, the browser has no idea where to find Facebook.com, and so returns an error page San Francisco, USA | THE INDEPENDENT | Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages, according to tech investigators …
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Washington, USA | Xinhua | U.S. business groups have many unanswered questions over President Joe Biden’s sweeping vaccine mandates to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed over 700,000 Americans. Biden, who prioritized handling the pandemic after assuming office, announced last month sweeping new federal vaccine requirements …
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