Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Some of the presidential candidates are crying out to the Electoral Commission to meet the feeding expense of their security detail. Independent presidential candidate John Katumba was the first to raise this concern. He asked EC to use part of the Shillings 20 million paid …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security personnel have blocked independent presidential candidate, Gen. Henry Tumukunde from entering Kisoro district to campaign. Tumukunde who is currently in the Kigezi region campaigned in Rukungiri and Kanungu districts on Tuesday. On Wednesday, he set off to resume his campaign in Kisoro. However, on …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have declined to grant the National Unity Platform-NUP party presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi permission to campaign in Kitgum Municipality. Kyagulanyi’s agents had booked Christ the King playgrounds for their campaigns and informed security as required. He was scheduled to campaign in Kitgum Municipality …

  Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The United States’ human rights record was examined by a working group session of the UN Human Rights Council Monday, where many countries criticized the U.S. human rights situation and proposed recommendations to the country. Representatives of more than 110 countries spoke at the session …

Washington, US | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday, sending shockwaves through Washington. “Mark Esper has been terminated,” Trump tweeted. “I would like to thank him for his service.” The announcement came only days after a Pentagon spokesman said Esper “has no plans …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat Oboi says his journey on Monday and the launch of his campaigns in Soroti city is as testimony that the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC, Uganda’s biggest opposition is still strong in the country. Addressing a press conference at Eneku village in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Archbishop of Church of Uganda Stephen Samuel Kaziimba has called for open and transparent investigations into the death of Deborah Nakalema Sekibaala, the former headteacher of Kikamulo Church of Uganda Primary School in Nakaseke district. Nakalema was allegedly strangled to death and her body …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) presidential candidate, Gen. Mugisha Muntu says that the least Ugandans must do is to sideline the incumbent leader Yoweri Kaguta Museveni since he has failed the masses and is drunk with power. “There must be elimination of dictatorship and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement- NRM party in Bukomansimbi district has failed to heal from its internal wrangles as the campaigns commence. The political dispute arises from the party’s Elections Tribunal which nullified the election of Hajji Idi Lubyayi Kisiki as the MP Bukomansimbi North constituency …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ten regional referral hospitals are set to benefit from a five-year program funded by the United States government aimed at strengthening the coordination of HIV related activities in Uganda. They are Masaka, Arua, Fort Portal, Soroti, Jinja, Mbarara, Lira and Moroto, Kayunga and Bombo military …