Nakasongola, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nakasongola district officials have resolved to relocate 1,974 families displaced by the rising water levels in Lake Kyoga to Kyalubanga forest reserve before it is degazetted by Parliament. The eight- square mile forest reserve stretches to four sub-counties including Nakitoma, Lwabiyata, Lwampanga and Nabiswera. In his …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has commended religious leaders for shunning radicalism, prioritizing a message of transforming society and not engaging in unnecessary wars. Museveni said that the present-day religious leaders are not like their predecessors who got disoriented and emphasized religious differences rather than unity in diversity. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The family of the late Major General Ali Bamuze has made a passionate plea to president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni over unfulfilled pledges he made in 2015 following the death of their father. At the time of his death, Major General Ali Bamuze was working with Operation …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 10 opposition political parties and activist groups have formed another coalition through which they hope to end President Yoweri Museveni’s 36-year grip on power. Speaking today at the unveiling of the coalition named; People’s Front for Transition, former President of the Forum for Democratic …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Deputy Chief Justice Richard Buteera has called for the maintenance of the status quo on the discretion of granting bail to suspects on capital offences. Justice Buteera who was on an inspection tour in the Masaka High Court circuit indicated that that the Courts of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security and legal experts have urged Uganda Police Force not to succumb to President Yoweri Museveni’s call to stop releasing capital offence suspects on bond. President Museveni has continuously expressed concern with police giving bond to suspected capital offenders. In line with the president’s concern, …
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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Lwengo district has recovered sh5.25 million , part of the condolence money that had been paid to fake relatives of machete victims that were presented to President Yoweri Museveni. The recovered money is part of the sh10 million which President Museveni gave …
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has urged African political leaders and African people in general to shun the politics of identity that characterized most of the post-independence Africa. He noted that politic of identity that was mostly based on tribes and religions were counterproductive, diversionary …
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New boss determined to pump out Uganda’s oil in four years Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Philippe Groueix took over from Pierre Jessua on Sept. 01 as the General Manager of TotalEnergies EP Uganda with one critical goal on his mind: commercializing Uganda’s oil resources by 2025. Uganda first …
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Why is the President insistent on a seemingly winless war? Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | What does President Yoweri Museveni have against two young opposition legislators; Muhammad Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana so much as for him to revive his unpopular stance on bail? It is something that has vexed …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
