Sembabule, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement- NRM party has for the second time postponed the primaries in Mawogola West and North in Sembabule district to September 30th 2020. The elections had earlier been scheduled for Monday. Addressing journalists on Sunday at the NRM party headquarters at Kyadondo, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Saprolegnia, a fungal disease affecting catfish in Uganda has killed several fish in their ponds. According to information from the Aquatic Research and Development Centre (ARDC) in Kajjansi, Wakiso district, in 2018/ 2019, the national fish hatchery at Kajjansi hatched only 200,000 tons of catfish …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 105 police officers who were recently deployed to the Criminal Investigations Department will on Monday start an investigations course. Last month police, passed out 4,800 Probation Police Constables- PPCs and Learner Assistant Inspectors of Police –AIPs of which a number of them were deployed to …

United Nations | XINHUA | United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday that a nuclear war cannot be won and must not be fought. “The use of nuclear weapons would affect all states, meaning that all states have a responsibility to ensure that such deadly armaments are never used again …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party president Norbert Mao has been elected secretary-general of the Democrat Union of Africa (DUA). The election took place on Saturday during the organization’s general meeting which was held virtually via Zoom. The meeting attracted participants from centre-right political parties from across Africa …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has partnered with the European Union (EU) and UNESCO in a joint project aimed at supporting the development of the local film industry. The project will create measures to provide a tax …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The family of the late Nasser Ntege Sebaggala have resolved to stay his burial for a week. Sebaggala who passed on Saturday morning, will now be buried on Sunday October 4, to enable his children attend his send off. The decision supersedes an earlier communication …

Washington, US | XINHUA | U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he is nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative federal appellate judge, for the Supreme Court. “She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials, and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution,” Trump said of Barrett from the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Supporters of the National Unity Platform on Saturday night faced off with the military police personnel at the vigil of former Kampala Mayor Hajji Nasser Ntege Ssebaggala at his ancestral home in Kisaasi. At 9:00 pm, two military police trucks carrying armed military police personnel …

Kanungu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The HPV vaccination campaign in Kanungu district suffered a huge setback because of the lockdown that was initiated by the government to disrupt the spread of coronavirus. The government launched the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination (HPV Vaccine) exercise at Bwera Secondary School grounds in Kasese district. …