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Kampala, Uganda | AGNES E NANTABA | Rodney Mukula is the managing director of the Kampala based Asante Waste Management Limited. He spoke to The Independent’s Agnes E Nantaba about challenges of waste and plastic management and the probable solutions in Uganda. What are the key elements in your management philosophy? …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Fuel distributor, Vivo Energy Uganda has launched new fuels with additives to give motorists best and extra levels of performance. Speaking to motorists during a tour of the company’s depot in Namuwongo near Kampala city on Nov.12, Gilbert Assi, the company’s managing director said the …

Museveni meets Mutebile Behind the scenes efforts to save Kasekende, Mutebile Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | What would you say if you saw President Yoweri Museveni and embattled Bank of Uganda Governor Tumusiime Mutebile in a meeting at this time? What if that meeting, which in fact happened last week, …

Experts want more from her new term as URA boss Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Doris Akol, the Commissioner General for Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) must be a happy woman at the moment. While on a six months maternity leave that ends in February next year, she recently got the …

How does it truly impact survival? Kampala, Uganda | MARIA COHUT | In the medical world, there is an ongoing debate about the extent to which regularly screening for breast cancer actually improves a person’s chances of survival if cancer is detected. New research tries to settle that debate. Breast cancer …

Why Uganda (like other African countries) keeps rotating around the same roundabout THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Last weekend, Kyadondo East Member of Parliament (MP), Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, held a “mega” Kyarenga (it’s too much) concert at his One Love Beach in Busabala near Kampala. Drovees …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Fixing Bank of Uganda: Museveni meets Mutebile THE LAST WORD Bobi Wine’s Kyarenga concert: Why Uganda (like other African countries) keeps rotating around the same roundabout INVESTIGATION Behind the scenes efforts to save Kasekende, …

THIS WEEK: Bobi Wine to youths: Get national ID and vote Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | During his hugely attended Kyarenga Concert at his One Love Beach in Busabala, in the city outskirts, singer and politician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine urged youth to get national IDs and vote. Wine …

THIS WEEK: Ex-KCC workers renew fight for Shs90bn Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In what has become a recurrent fight, ex-workers of the defunct Kampala City Council (KCC) are demanding their terminal benefits and salary arrears following their sacking in 2012. The workers are demanding an estimated Shs92 billion which …

THIS WEEK: Stella Nyanzi’s new mission in Luzira prison Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University researcher and activist Stella Nyanzi declined bail by the Magistrates Court to teach inmates at Luzira prison how to use social media. Nyanzi was charged with cyber harassment and offensive communication after she wrote …