Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A long list of unfulfilled campaign pledges and the brutal military-led operations against illegal fishing practices are bothering National Resistance Movement-NRM party campaign mobilizers in greater Masaka sub-region. The party mobilizers including NRM district and constituency chairpersons and candidates for different leadership positions from districts …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kyotera district Woman Member of Parliament, Robinah Ssentongo Nakasirye is dead. Nakasirye breathed her last at the Aga Khan Hospital in Kenya’s capital Nairobi this morning. The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga announced the death of the legislator during plenary, saying she had …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 233 special polling constables that were recently recruited to reinforce the police in securing the forthcoming 2021 general elections in Lamwo district have commenced training. These 202 males and 31 females will undergo a two weeks rigorous training at IGF Childcare Primary School …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The independent presidential hopeful John Katumba has promised to create thousands of jobs for the youth in Karamoja if he’s elected as President of Uganda in the coming general elections. He said his government will ensure that no single raw materials of minerals will ever …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 500 supporters of the National Unity Platform in Acholi and Lango sub region have defected to the National Resistance Movement-NRM party this week alone. The defectors are from Nwoya, Amuru, Gulu, Pader and Kitgum districts in Acholi sub region and Lira city. They …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City lawyer Male Mabirizi has written to the clerk of Parliament Jane Kibirige asking her to block the appointment of General Paul Lokech as Deputy Inspector General of Police. Gen. Lokech has served with the Uganda People’s Defence Forces where he is credited for crashing …

Paris, France | Xinhua | French President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and will isolate himself for seven days, the French presidency said. After the diagnosis established by “RT-PCR tests carried out as soon as the first symptoms appear,” Macron “will isolate himself for seven days” but “will …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity platform-NUP party presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has vowed to end Museveni’s reign in Uganda. Kyagulanyi who is commonly known as Bobi Wine started his campaign tour to Kigezi sub region yesterday in Kisoro district and ended it in Rukungiri district before …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The financial sector forecast is that the full effect of the Covid-19 pandemic will be realized in the next two years when investments and projects that were started earlier were supposed to have started yielding returns. The real bad effect of the pandemic has not …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 20 year old single mother of a two-months-old baby is rotting at home in a city slum due to lack of money to buy medicine for her bullet wounds. Shakirah Nyemera who lives in Banda says she has gone to Mulago several times but …