By Julius Odeke The first-ever EAC Arts and Culture Festival officially opened Tuesday in Kigali, Rwanda. Rwanda’s Minister for Sports and Culture Protais Mitali represented His Excellency President Paul Kagame as the Guest of Honor and presided over the opening ceremony at a packed Petit Stade. Performances from various artists …

By Ronald Musoke Rather than channeling more than half of the health budget into curative and rehabilitative health programmes, health experts have urged the government to increase its budget allocation for preventive health if Uganda’s disease burden is to be controlled. The experts were engaging hundreds of health journalists from …

By Priscilla Muhairwe Harnessing the potential in regional trade to help Uganda’s economy expand and diversify, the report has been launched by World Bank. According to the report, despite having one of the world’s highest rates of population growth Uganda has an impressive record of economic growth and poverty reduction. …

By Julius Odeke The Somali National army supported by African Union forces from the Ugandan Contingent has on Thursday morning captured three strategic positions at Lower Shabelle in Somalia. The simultaneous operation saw a successful ejection of the Al Shabaab from the strategic towns/crossing points of Barrire, Aw dheegle, and …

By Priscilla Muhairwe Safaricom features among the most innovative companies in the world in 2013 listing as number 9. Its innovations starting with M-pesa a mobile money service, which was launched In April 2007, following a student software development project from Kenya, their innovative thinking and clever product implementation which strives …

By Priscilla Muhairwe Leonah Mborimpa the Corporate communication Officer of NITA says “ National Information Technology Authority,[NITA] is partnering with Uganda Communication Commission and International Telecommunication Union on another project still in the pipeline to enable the effectiveness of innovation in the country to be called UG- CERT [Uganda- Computer …

By Aloysious Kasoma Opposition Uganda People’s Congress and Democratic Party have called on leaders to emulate the courage of the Pope to resign where it is necessary. While addressing Journalists in separate press conferences in Kampala on Tuesday and Wednesday, DP’s Kenneth Kakande said that it is good to resign …

By Julius Odeke The Vice president of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party Salaamu Musumba has been released from police cells where she had been remanded a few hours before the Butaleja by-elections. The FDC’s spokesman Wafula Oguttu also an MP for Bukhooli Central told The Independent that, “Musumba …

By Julius Odeke Prof John Ddumba-Ssentamu has clarified on the policy Makerere University adopted that has led to students striking. In a press report that was released a day after the students strike, it says a section of the University students demonstrated on Feb. 11 over the implementation of the …

By Julius Odeke The Woman Member of Parliament for Butaleja district Florence Andiru Nebanda says her focus the moment she joins parliament is to modernize agriculture so that the people can fight poverty in their households. In an interview with The Independent she says agriculture is one of the projects …