Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police women have expressed disappointment with police leadership for allegedly failing to hold promotions as one of the major resolutions made during the second female police officers conference held over a year ago in Kampala on February 21st, 2020. Some of the senior and junior …
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Belief that elections cannot result into change discouraged people from voting Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Electoral Commission (EC) says it’s conducting a study to understand why voters din’t turn up to vote. Cyprian Ogwang, the head of Research and Planning Department at EC says this survey will be …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wakiso women have peacefully demonstrated to express concern over their missing relatives as their way to commemorate world Women’s day. The grieving women read a list of many missing persons who are not on the list released by Internal Affairs minister Gen Jeje Odongo, and …
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WTO members made history February 15, 2021 when the General Council agreed by consensus to select Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria as the organization’s seventh Director-General Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | One week into her new job as the seventh director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s appointment as head …
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Madrid, Spain | Xinhua | Joan Laporta was elected president of FC Barcelona for a second time after a vote of the club’s membership on Sunday. With 87 percent of the votes counted, Laporta had won 57 percent, ahead of Victor Fontwith on 31.6 percent and Toni Freixa who polled 9.5 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is a decline in cattle rustling in Karamoja region, a thing the leaders attribute to garden work. Mark Abuku, the Kaabong district LC V chairperson says that the most active rustlers are now busy clearing their gardens for the planting season. According to Abuku, …
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Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ruhaama secondary school in Ntungamo district has received an infrastructural development grant worth Shillings 292 Million from the Japan Embassy. The Japanese government donated the money through the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects-GGP. Dr. Stephen Bwekingo Twinomugisha, the Ruhaama school board chairperson signed …
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Residents are appealing to government to extend piped water to the area Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A severe water crisis has hit Omuruti in Busongora South in Kasese district following the dry spell. The only borehole that used to serve the area is also dysfunctional. About 200 residents in the …
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Elly Maate, the Kigezi Region police spokesperson says Iranatwe died on the spot while Twizere breathed his last this morning Kisoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two footballers attached to the Kisoro based Highland Gorilla Sports Club have died in a motor accident which injured five others. The deceased players are …
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Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Vendors are to get a two month’s tax holiday in the newly built Kasese central market when it finally becomes operational. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni commissioned the Shillings 16 billion market during his campaign trail in December last year. Despite this, the market is yet …
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