Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fort Portal city council is seeking Shillings 80 million to relocate timber dealers from the central business region to pave way for re-development. This comes as the city is preparing to rehabilitate Kahunga Bunyonyi and Water Supply road under the Uganda Support to Municipal …

Napak, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The scuffle between the Karamojong and Iteso communities has left several pastoralists stranded with over 10,000 heads of cattle without pasture and water. The affected community is the Bokora from Napak, who have been grazing their animals in the areas of Teso. But amidst raids …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU has impounded and destroyed illegal fishing gears valued at shillings 447 million. The gears that included monofilament nets and hooks were destroyed at Bugonga landing site, Entebbe municipality on Monday. Entebbe Grade One Magistrate Naomi Sikoya presided over the exercise. She …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Letshego Africa, a financial services provider, is enabling instant digital access to wellness and affordable health solutions via its LetsGo Digital Mall-a multichannel digital platform, in partnership with Healthcare Group, Brandmed, it said on April 11. BrandMed is a digitally-savvy healthcare Group, that continuously reimagines …

Tunis, Tunisia | Xinhua | Tunisian President Kais Saied pledged to put an end to the country’s “current exceptional phase” when meeting with visiting European Parliament members on Monday, days after he issued a decree to dissolve the country’s parliament. During the meeting, Saied said he would work to complete the …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Lira city has arrested their own, Raymond Esanyu for murdering a suspect. Esanyu, an officer attached to Starch Factory Police Post in Lira City West Division was arrested after he allegedly shot dead a 29-year-old man during night patrol. The deceased has been …

Brussels, Belgium | Xinhua | European Union foreign ministers did not decide on sanctions targeting Russia’s oil and gas, EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said on Monday. Addressing the media following a meeting of the EU’s foreign ministers in Luxembourg, Borrell said that although no …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector General of Government (IGG), Beti Kamya has appealed to the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee to avail her institution with more funding that will partly improve the slow progress in handling corruption cases. Kamya was on Monday appearing before the committee to present …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Principal Judge Dr Flavian Zeija has ordered for the retrial of the case pertaining to the ownership of St Peter’s Church Ndeeba land. The demolition of St Peter’s church that occurred in 2020 was the climax of a decades-long property wrangle between the Church …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s financial industry risks being blacklisted by international systems for failure to put in place measures that can effectively prevent financial crimes like money laundering. This is a requirement by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global inter-governmental organisation on the initiative of the …