Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In the wake of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Uganda, the Ministry of Education and Sports has instructed schools to reactivate the strategies used during COVID-19 pandemic to keep learners and staff safe. While meeting journalists at Nakasero State Lodge on Friday evening, the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY NSSF stuck over ‘Orders from above’: MD Byarugaba joins list of government officials ‘stuck’ over Museveni directives THE LAST WORD The bastardisation of civil society: Why the struggle against NGOs in poor countries …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Human Rights Network for Journalists-HRNJ, an organization that advocates for media rights has written to President Yoweri Museveni beseeching him not to sign into law, the recently passed Computer Misuse Amendment Bill. The bill sponsored by the Kampala Central Member of Parliament Muhammad Nsereko …

Nairobi, Kenya | AMA – SAP NEWS | How do you bring consistency and improve decision-making at an organisation where more than 50 factories each operate on their own disparate systems with little to no integration? For one of the largest tea-producing organisations in the world, the answer rested in …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Lira have further extended the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development-USMID project contract for an additional six months. Apac and Moroto municipality were given a three months extension period. The extension in Lira includes the first 45 days extension which was given in …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of Christians in Masaka Diocese are risking being excluded from participating in sacraments and services of the Catholic faith over associating with a priest who opened a parallel prayer centre in the area. Sections of the Catholic laity in Masaka Diocese recently shifted their loyalty …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF have joined the hunt for men in military uniform who were captured on camera kidnapping a Pakistan National in Kireka. Rafik Khan, who was dumped in Kasangalabi along Kayunga-Mukono road, opened a case of abduction and robbery at Kireka police station …

Berlin, Germany | Xinhua | Sadio Mane has been through happier days in his career. Several titles with his former side of Liverpool and himself being awarded African Footballer of the Year twice might tell the story. After a goalless September for his club Bayern Munich, a goal scored for Senegal’s …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday that those who claim to be advocates and sympathizers of Iranian people are those who have denied the country’s patients suffering from rare conditions access to the medicine they need to survive. Nasser Kanaani made the remarks in …

Nabilatuk, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Nabilatuk district have resolved to ban traditional shrines in Kosike sub-county. The shrines were located within forested areas, from where rituals and sacrifices are performed. The ban follows an incident in which the community of Napore village, Kosike sub county teamed up and beat …