Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Secretary Generals of all political parties with representation in Parliament will meet this Friday, to determine the fate of next week’s Inter party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) summit. The summit, composed of presidents of political parties with representation in parliament is supposed to take place …

Bangui, Central African Republic | AFP | The line of parents waiting to see doctors stretches back outside the hospital into the dusty courtyard. Mums and dads carrying weak, starving children. Many hanging limply in their arms like half empty sacks of rice. The scene at the paediatric complex in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Female officers have expressed concern over the increasing incidents of Sexual harassment and abuse within the Uganda Police Force that go unreported. The officers who were part of a conference organized by the Police Women Affairs Department, as part of the 16 days of activism …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | High Court Judge Elizabeth Kabanda has pulled out of the case in which nine suspects are charged with the murder and kidnap of Susan Magara, a 28 year old cashier of Bwendero Dairy Farm. The late Susan Magara was kidnapped on February 7, along Kabaka …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kabale District LCV Chairman, Patrick Besigye Keihwa and district councillors have clashed over the District Public Accounts Committee-PAC report. The report dated November 29, 2018 calls for action against the former Kabale Deputy District Engineer, James Kiganda. Kiganda is currently the District Engineer for …

Integration is essential to scale and connect markets where lack of electricity is holding back progress GLOBAL COMMENT | Tony Blair | African countries are increasingly coming together. A landmark free-trade agreement was concluded earlier this year. East Africa has made great progress on free movement of people. And a commitment to …

Washington, United States | AFP | North Korea has expanded a key long-range missile base in the months since a summit between the country’s leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, according to satellite images published by CNN on Wednesday. The two men met in Singapore in June …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bufumbira North County Member of Parliament, John Nizeyimana Kamara is on the spot for allegedly intimidating tea nursery bed operators in Kisoro District from joining their colleagues in Kigezi and Ankole regions to sue the National Agriculture Advisory Services-NAADS for nonpayment. On November 21st, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sugarcane farmers in Masindi have resolved to lift their ban to supply cane to Kinyara Sugar Limited. The farmers slapped a ban on supplying cane to Kinyara Sugar Limited on October 18th, 2018 following their failure to agree with the company on the final payment …

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg pushed back Wednesday against emails showing the social media giant offering Netflix and other popular apps preferential access to people’s data even after it had tightened its privacy rules. A British parliamentary committee investigating whether the social media behemoth was …