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But the houses are too expensive for the average Ugandan Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda’s pension fund has placed more than 370 housing units for sale at its Lubowa Housing Project on Entebbe Road in Wakiso District but they are expensive to the average local population. NSSF Managing …

Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has urged leaders to continue pushing for the East African Community integration to provide an extended market in the region. President Museveni made the remarks while speaking at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi at the swearing-in ceremony of William Samoei Ruto as the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two Uganda Revenue Authority employees have been awarded 400 million Shillings as compensation for the torture they were subjected to while in detention. The two employees; Robert Asiimwe Akanga, a Customs Officer and driver Stevens Kalenga were separately arrested on allegations of stealing USD …

Stockholm, Sweden | Xinhua | Repair works on one of Sweden’s six remaining nuclear reactors have been delayed by two months to Jan. 31, the plant’s owner, energy company Vattenfall, said on Tuesday. Two weeks ago, the company announced that a vital component of the Ringhals 4 reactor had been …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a bid to curb the embezzlement of the Parish Development Model (PDM) funds, the government will start disbursing the revolving funds directly to Sacco group accounts. The parish Revolving fund is a capitalization grant from the government to SACCOs meant for lending to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State Minister for Housing Persis Namuganza has been summoned before the rules committee of Parliament over demeaning sentiments she made against the Parliament of Uganda. The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa directed the committee to investigate Namuganza for allegedly questioning the integrity of …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Government is preparing to repatriate more than 500 Ugandan migrant workers stranded in the Arabian Peninsula countries of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Oman among others. Betty Among Akena, the Minister of Labour says the government is in advanced stages to repatriate …

Istanbul, Turkey | Xinhua |– The global food insecurity issue has been consciously fabricated and speculated by the United States to pursue its own hegemonic policies, a retired Turkish admiral told Xinhua in a recent interview. “It appears there are some manipulations to strengthen and mobilize the economies of big …

President Yoweri Museveni gives radio sh200million boost Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tororo Broadcasting Network Limited radio (RockCity Radio) will go live this year. This assurance was given today after President Yoweri Museveni fulfilling a government sh200million pledge that was needed by the Tieng Adhola Cultural Institution (TACI) to complete …

Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 34-year-old man has gone to the press, pleading for justice after being allegedly subjected to torture by his supervisors at China Railway No.3 Engineering Group (CR3), a company contracted to construct the road from Moroto to the Kenyan border of Lokitanyala. Martin Satya, a driver …