Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Mukitale, the National Resistance Movement-NRM chairperson for Ngwedu sub-county, Buliisa district has been murdered and his body dumped in Masindi town. His body was dumped in Nyabinyira cell, Bigando ward, Masindi municipality on Wednesday morning at around 8:30am by unidentified assailants driving a Premio …
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Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An angry mob has lynched a suspected cattle thief in Masindi district. The deceased was a notorious suspected thief identified as Muhammad Mwesigye, a resident of Kisindi village in Mirya sub county. Together with others still at large, they raided the home of Nicholas Tumwine of …
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Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masindi district authorities have rejected 120,000 pineapple suckers supplied under the Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) programme, saying they are of poor quality. The pineapple suckers were delivered by Juliet Nyamahunge, who was contracted by Operation Wealth Creation. The suckers were meant for distribution to farmers in …
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Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masindi health officials are investigating reports that some of their own are selling Covid-19 certificates to none vaccinated people. Dr Rogers Musinguzi, the head of the Covid-19 Case Management Unit in Masindi district says that they have received reports that health workers in some facilities …
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Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One person was gunned down during a protest by over 200 Kinyara sugarcane cutters in Masindi district on Saturday evening. The deceased only identified as Rizfork, and resident of Arua district met his death when anti-riot police opened fire to quell the protest in Kibamba …
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Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unknown people have hacked to death Livingstone Kasangaki 58, the LCII Chairperson of Kyakamese Parish in Pakanyi Sub County, Masindi district. The assailants waylaid Kasangaki as he was returning home from a trading Center at 2:30 a.m. They hacked him several times on the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Economic Monitoring in the Office of the President Peter Ogwang has ordered for the arrest of nine Masindi district local government officials for allegedly executing shoddy works on government projects in the district. The officials are John Kasaija, the Masindi municipal …
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Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government of the Republic of Poland is set to renovate a graveyard left behind by the Polish refugees at Nyabyeya village, Budongo sub county in Masindi district. The graveyard that has 48 graves of some of the Polish refugees who died in Nyabyeya village …
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Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Nairobi based Polish Embassy has embarked on the construction of a fully-fledged maternity ward at Nyabyeya health center II in Budongo sub county in Masindi district. The embassy has contracted Bernard Alinaitwe Construction Company limited to undertake the Shillings 180million project. Rev. Father Peter …
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Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sugarcane farmers in Masindi district under their umbrella Masindi Sugar Cane Out growers Association Ltd -MASGAL are protesting the new price for sugarcane that was recently announced by Kinyara Sugar Limited for this financial year. The Association is the biggest supplier of sugarcane to Kinyara …
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