Tag Archives: Uganda

The Independent to deliver through The ONEm Global Platform Local Ugandan News to The World The Independent has reached an agreement with ONEm to offer news on the ONEm platform for readers in Uganda and the rest of the World. ONEm will provide a platform for non-internet users on their phones …

Emma Okwi and Brian Umony were the two prominent faces missing as Uganda named their preliminary squad to start preparations for the Gabon 2017 African Cup of Nations finals. The two stars have struggled with injury and not had enough playing time in the past year with their clubs. Uganda Cranes head …

The Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Amelia Kyambadde has explained that the decision to call off the Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UNCCI) elections was agreed with all stakeholders after a recent meeting. “I have received a number of concerns from different stakeholders on operations of Uganda National …

The Constitutional Court on Wednesday dismissed with costs a petition filed against the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) by nine people being tried in the case of the slain Muslic clerics before the International Crimes Division Court. The nine led by Amir Ummar Shiekh Mohammed Yunus Kamoga had sought  contempt of  court …

Traders under their umbrella body Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) have appealed to President Yoweri Museveni not to sign the Income Tax Bill that seeks to exempt Members of Parliament’s allowances from tax. Speaking at a press conference organized at the KACITA headquarters on Wednesday, Chairperson Everest Kayondo re-echoed the opinions of …

The Judiciary has transferred Kampala High Court Judge Wilson Masalu Musene, who has been head of Criminal Division, to the new High Court Circuit in Mpigi. Also transferred are Justice John Wilson Kwesiga head of High Court Land Division to now head the Criminal Division. Justice Dr. Andrew Bashaija is …

Paris, France | AFP |  Ugandan traditional music, which is dying out partly because it requires materials from endangered species, has been placed on UNESCO’s protected “Intangible Cultural Heritage” list, along with Portuguese pottery and Ukrainian Cossack songs. A UNESCO world heritage committee, meeting in Addis Ababa Tuesday, decided to …

VIDEO: Buganda Kingdom plans to put idle land into use to increase its income. Focus is on construction, with the kingdom planning to put the 216 acres of Mengo palace land to use through public private partnership. Buganda is one of the biggest landlords in Uganda with a lot of …

The trial in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a top commander of Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army,  is scheduled to open at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday, December 6 – 2016. The Prosecutor versus Ongwen case will be before Trial Chamber IX of the ICC, composed of presiding Judge …

The King of the Rwenzururu Omusinga Charles Wesley Mumbere has been charged today with a March 2016 murder in a Jinja court and remanded in prison until December 13. After his arrest in Kasese on Sunday, Mumbere appeared in public for the first time Tuesday and was charged with murder, …