Malaria vaccine could save the lives of an additional 40,000 to 80,000 African children each year if widely deployed Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for continued innovation and increased investment in fighting malaria. Ahead of World Malaria Day on Monday, the WHO announced that …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Water and Sewerage Cooperation (NWSC) has secured land in Gulu city for the construction of a giant water reservoir, thanks to the family of the late speaker of parliament Jacob Oulanyah. His elder son, Andrew Ojok handed over the 60×60 meter plot situated …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the West had failed in its attempts to divide Russian society and destroy it from within. During an expanded meeting of the Prosecutor General’s Office Board, the president noted that the West and its allies were urging Kiev to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Court of Appeal sitting in Kampala has ordered for a retrial in the case where Betty Ssentamu challenged the decision of the High Court in Mpigi. A panel of three justices; Elizabeth Musoke, Irene Mulyagonja and Monica Mugenyi have set aside orders of the …

Juba, South Sudan | Xinhua | The recent intensified fighting in Unity and Upper Nile states between the parties to the 2018 revitalized peace agreement is undermining efforts to achieve a permanent ceasefire, ceasefire monitors said Monday. Asrat Denero Amad, the chairperson for the Ceasefire Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring and Verification …

Paris, France | Xinhua | Emmanuel Macron’s election Sunday to a second five-year term as French president gives Europe a dose of consistency during its most tumultuous period in decades, analysts have said. With European countries facing the widespread repercussions of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and battling to recover …

Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) 5th Division Infantry Court Martial has sentenced one of their own to a thirty years jail term, for killing a civilian in Madi Opei town council, Lamwo district early this year. Private Ronald Odera who was attached to the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The board chairperson of Uganda Vinci Coffee Company Limited, Enrica Pinetti snubbed Parliament’s Trade Committee which had invited her to explain an agreement signed with government to process coffee. The company was instead on Monday represented before the committee by the company secretary, Moses Matovu, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has been asked to empower lower local council leaders with basic legal knowledge to enable them to undertake the responsibilities of local council courts. The courts at lower local government administrative units are charged with adjudicating minor cases and making relevant orders for; …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Investigations by the Joint Anti-Terrorism Taskforce show that the motorcade of the Principal Judge Dr Flavian Zeija was hit by an improvised bomb and not shot as earlier claimed. News about the attempted assassination of Dr. Zeija along the Kampala-Masaka highway started making rounds on …