Napak, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The skin of one of the 158 cattle that rustlers audaciously raided near State Lodge on the weekend, where President Museveni was has been found. The exhibit has been found by relatives of the director public prosecution Jane Francis Abodo, just a hundred metres from …
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An over-confident president, weak police, and political intrigue Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Late evening on July 23, two men were riding home on a bicycle when they were ambushed and attacked by machete-wielding assailants. John Kabanda and Vincent Kalya were both hit on the head and left to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security analysts have warned that Uganda risks being plunged into anarchy by recruiting and keeping armed Local Defence Units-LDUs in the civilian populace. Uganda People’s Defence Force-UPDF is finalizing with the recruitment of 10,000 more Local Defence Unit personnel. But security analysts Fred Egesa and …
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How Kampala’s cold war with Kigali harms Uganda’s national interest and what can be done about it THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Last week, Uganda’s Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) arrested the Vice Chancellor of Victoria University, Lawrence Muganda, apparently on charges of espionage. Muganga is not …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | All the 170 District/Division Police Commanders-DPCs who completed a three months refresher course last week have been sent on a 14-days leave as the police leadership works on their redeployment plan. The former Deputy Inspector General of Police Lt Gen Paul Lokech had sent the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has directed the prime minister to lead the team from the ministry of education, health and the national taskforce to come up with dates and revised safe proposals for the reopening of learning institutions. The directive follows a meeting that happened on …
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FULL INTERVIEW: President threatens to pull out of Somalia, blames Rwanda for their actions Paris, France | THE INDEPENDENT | In an exclusive interview with France 24, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni condemned the coup d’état in Guinea, describing it as a “step backwards”. He said the coup leaders should be sanctioned and …
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Opposition fear foreign-based critics could become new targets of government following disappearance of notorious Turkey-based vlogger Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | The Independent recently held a very revealing interview with the Attorney General, Kiryowa Kiwanuka, on the whereabouts of Fred Kajjubi Lumbuye; the missing critic of the government and …
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A frank memo to those demanding that we purchase credibility at the price of mutilating of our beliefs THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | A section of the Ugandan talking heads have made a fetish of “credibility”, particularly the sort of “credibility” purchased by denouncing President Yoweri …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has set up an Adhoc committee to investigate the government’s decision to merge government agencies. The resolution was passed on Thursday after the Minister of Public Service Wilson Muruli Mukasa presented a statement on the rationalization of government …
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