Nearly 60 villages in Kayunga district are set to be connected to the national electricity grid to boost the socio-economic status of the population, according to Eng. Harrison Mutikanaga, the managing director at the Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mutikanga, who was accompanied by …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wildfires have destroyed more than 1,400 acres of sugarcane in Ayuu Alali parish in Palabek Kal Sub County in Lamwo district. The Chairperson Ayuu Alali Sugarcane Outgrowers Cooperatives Society, Francis Ojwiya, says that the fire broke out from sugar plantations that had already been …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University has re-advertised over forty undergraduate courses after failing to get the targeted number of applicants. This comes a week after the university published admission lists for the 2021/2022 academic year. The university with the capacity for over 4000 students, has specific targets …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As schools prepare to receive learners on January 10th, 2022 as announced by the government, some parents are reluctant on paying tuition given their experience following the first and second lockdowns. The first lockdown announced in March 2019 occurred almost a month into the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Red Cross Society -URCS has so far recorded eight deaths and 55 severe injuries countrywide since 18th December when their emergency response started operations this festive season. This is more that one death per day. Documents from the URCS, indicate that these deaths …
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NEWS ANALYSIS | BAKER BATTE | By the end of his current term in 2026, President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni will have ruled Uganda for 40 years. By that time, he will be 81-years old. Twenty years ago, not very many people would have anticipated that by 2026, the country …
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Uganda has dropped to eighth spot on the Africa Visa Openness Index this year according to the latest rankings published on Dec.13 by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union Commission. Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The Africa Visa Openness Index which has been published since 2016 …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Butchers and food vendors in Luwero town have decried low sales this Christmas. At least 70 head of cattle were slaughtered in Luwero town council central market on Friday morning for the Christmas festivities. Currently, a kilogram of beef costs between Shillings 14,000 and …
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Ramathan Ggoobi Key interventions by government supported positive recovery Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Economic analysis for the year 2021 shows a somewhat positive recovery as opposed to a year before as government eased COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. According to the ministry of finance annual report which incorporates …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah and the President of the Senate of the DR Congo, H.E. Modeste Bahati Lukwebo have agreed to foster bilateral relations that better the lives of their people. In their meeting on Tuesday, 21 December 2021 at Parliament House, Oulanyah …
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