Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police in Kayunga District on Friday shot at an ambulance that was carrying National Unity Platform-NUP supporters. A team of about ten supporters had traveled from Kampala to canvass support for the NUP candidate Harriet Nakiwede who was campaigning at Kayonza Sub County. When …

Kampala, Uganda |  Xinhua | African nations should be allowed to develop their homegrown governance systems instead of adopting the Western-style democracy that has not yielded positive results over the years, said scholars, government representatives and diplomats as they were attending a democracy symposium here on Friday. Opening the symposium …

  Johannesburg, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts have warned that Africa will continue seeing a cycle of new COVID-19 variants if more people are not vaccinated. Speaking at a transnational science café on Friday attended by journalists from East and Southern Africa, Dr. Lul Riek a Public Health …

Busunga, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | The UPDF Engineering Unit has started opening impassable roads in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The road from Mukakati, where the UPDF has set up an operating base has been in an appalling state. Two weeks ago, the UPDF, in a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Museveni out of U.S. democracy summit: Why it doesn’t matter and why all eyes should be on 2022 US-Africa Summit THE LAST WORD Our anti-corruption pretense: How poor countries indulge in rituals of …

    Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga will make a fifth bid for Kenya’s presidency in next year’s election. He made the announcement on Friday at a packed Nairobi stadium. It comes after a near year-long build-up to the campaigns, following a surprise truce …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda police are investigating a Chinese man that was found in possession of forged documents indicating he is the Uganda Airlines’ official agent in Beijing. The Chinese man, whose identity was withheld, had with him several documents police believe are forged government letters including …

Nearly three out of every ten children in West Nile are stunted Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Office of the Prime Minister has launched NutriCash – a project that will see children under two years, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in West Nile region, Northwestern Uganda, receive sh48,000 ($14 ) …

    Karlsruhe, Germany | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Managing Director Uganda Development Bank Limited (UDBL) Patricia Ojangole, has been named Sustainability Leader of the Year 2021 during the Karlsruhe Sustainable Awards ceremony held annually in Germany. Awarded by the International Council of Sustainability Standards for Value Driven Financial Institutions during …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Medical Stores (NMS), a government entity mandated to procure, store and distribute essential medicines to mainly public health facilities, has been nominated for NITA-U Excellence Awards. They have been nominated under three categories, the E-Service of the Year Award (Health); E-Service of the …