Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lira city is looking for Shillings 400million to fix 141 non-functional solar street lights. They are part of the 292 solar streets lights that were installed under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID), a World Bank-funded program which saw the construction of several …
Read More »Women in Kasese demand elevation of Kilembe health centre II
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women in Bulembia division, Kasese district have asked the Ministry of Health to elevate Kilembe health centre II to a health center III. The demand comes at a time when the facility receives an overwhelming number of patients seeking services. The facility that has only …
Read More »OPEC chief warns of global oil shortage due to sanctions on Russia
Houston, U.S. | Xinhua | The head of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) warned on Tuesday that the world cannot replace Russia’s share of oil exports, calling for energy depoliticization. “The issue at stake here is the capacity of the world to meet these perceived shortages,” OPEC Secretary General …
Read More »Moroto residents trek long distances in search of water
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Lotisan sub county, Moroto district are struggling to access water. This has forced some of the residents to get water for drinking and domestic use from unprotected sources. Monica Acan, a resident says that the crisis is not only exposing them to diseases …
Read More »LRA victims in West Nile to revive compensation case
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Victims of the Lords Resistance Army-LRA insurgency in West Nile have resolved to revive the case in which they are demanding compensation from the government over losses incurred during the conflict. Between 1993 and 1996, hundreds of people from Arua and other districts in West …
Read More »Delay to allocate land to boxing threatens construction of multi-purpose facility: Muhangi
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The proposed construction of a multi-purpose sports facility by the International Boxing Association-AIBA has stalled due to the delayed response by the Uganda Land Commission to allocate land to the Uganda Boxing Federation, URN has learnt. The Federation president Moses Muhangi, says that the Commission is …
Read More »Evicted residents in Kikuube district face starvation
Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 1,000 residents of Kyangwali sub county in Kikuube district who were brutally evicted from their land are at the verge of starvation. The affected are mainly women, men and children from Bukinda A and B, Bukinda 2, Kavule, Bwizibwera A and B, Kyeya A …
Read More »Museveni tasks local council leaders on Emyooga funds
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has asked local council leaders to take advantage of Emyooga funds to promote financial empowerment for women. Emyooga is a presidential wealth creation program launched in 2019 to lift at least 68 percent of Ugandans “from subsistence to market-oriented production. While addressing …
Read More »Global COVID-19 death toll tops 6million: WHO
Death toll inflicted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has surpassed six million Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The worldwide death toll inflicted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has surpassed six million, reaching 6,004,421 as of Tuesday, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Globally, as of 4:31 p.m. CET on Tuesday, …
Read More »Four directors of labor recruiting firms held over human trafficking
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four directors of two foreign labour recruiting firms are in custody at Kawempe and Old Kampala police divisions for alleged human trafficking. Agnes Igoye, the deputy coordinator for the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons at the Ministry of Internal Affair has identified one of the …
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