Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The management of Makerere University Press is pushing for elevation to a directorate so as to attract funding. The University Press was re-launched with three publications in 2019 following 19 years of inactivity stemming from under-funding. Dr. Samuel Siminyu, the managing editor of the university …
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Kiev, Ukraine | Xinhua | Kiev doesn’t support any compromise formula of granting Ukraine European Union (EU) candidate status, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Thursday. “We do not need surrogates for EU candidate status that show second-class treatment of Ukraine and hurt the feelings of Ukrainians,” Kuleba tweeted. He urged …
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Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | Turkey will not approve Sweden’s NATO membership if the country does not extradite “terrorists” upon Turkish request, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. “Supporting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Syria’s Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) terrorist organizations and asking us for support for NATO …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Civil Aviation Authority-UCAA says a Ugandan returning home on an Ethiopian Airlines flight was confirmed dead on arrival at Entebbe International Airport on Tuesday. Ahmed Jjingo, a son to the deceased has identified him as Yusuf Kulembera. Vianney Luggya, the UCAA spokesperson says the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has adopted recommendations of the Ad hoc Committee on the Naguru-Nakawa land holding several current and former ministers and the Uganda Land Commission liable for the illegal land dealings. The report presented by Committee chairperson, Dan Kimosho on 18 May 2022 recommends that the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There was tension among travelers and residents of Wakaliga in Lubaga division on Wednesday evening, when a coach belonging to Link buses caught fire. The fire broke out in the Kampala-bound bus registration number UBD 269A, that was returning from Kasese around 10:00pm. The bus …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police have been withdrawn from the home of Dr. Kizza Besigye. Dr. Besigye was placed under house arrest on Friday after attempting to mobilize Ugandans to protest the high cost of living. On Wednesday, the police which had placed barricades to the road leading …
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New York, U.S. | Xinhua | The terms used by U.S. and European journalists to describe non-European refugees reflect a racist European and American policy that only extends human rights protections to certain groups of people to the exclusion of others, making the death and suffering of Middle-Eastern, African and Asian …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Magistrates Court has remanded four suspects to Luzira prison on charges of belonging and rendering support to a terrorist organization, the Allied Democratic Forces. The suspects include; Rashidah Namiiro, a resident of Kirokole zone in Kawempe, Kampala district, Saidi Kakooza alias Bizimana, a …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The proposed Uganda National Institute for Teacher Education-UNITE has failed to kick off. This is a specialized higher education institute for teacher education mandated with the supervision of teacher education programmes in all higher institutions As part of the initiatives to raise the quality of teachers …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
