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🔴 UPDATE ➡ 3 suicide bombers blew themselves up ➡ Police say 4th suspected suicide bomber arrested ➡ 33 injured Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing on Tuesday in the Ugandan capital Kampala that killed three …

🔴 UPDATE ➡ 3 suicide bombers blew themselves up ➡ 4th suspected suicide bomber arrested ➡ 1 bomb discovered and detonated at Transformer at Kooki Tower ➡ 2 more bombs discovered near Buganda Road court 🔴 WHAT HAPPENED ➡ 2 blasts in the city centre, a kilometers apart ➡ First blast at …

Many deaths could be prevented with the timely arrival of competent emergency pre-hospital medical services at accident scenes | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | When you enter the accident and emergency casualty ward at Mulago National Referral hospital, it is screams and grinding of teeth in pain, with doctors and nurses pacing …

  🔴 UPDATE ➡ 6 confirmed dead ➡ 8 confirmed injuries ➡ 1 bomb discovered at Transformer at Kooki Tower ➡ 2 more bombs discovered near Buganda Road court 🔴 WHAT HAPPENED ➡ 2 blasts in the city centre ➡ First blast at CPS ➡ Second blast outside Jubilee, IPS building on …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s electricity consumption and demand has remained low, with electricity connectivity having dropped to 19% of the households in 2021, from 28% which had been recorded in 2018. This means that the billions of shillings that have been invested in recent years have not yet …

Threats that journalists will be criminally liable if they don’t register can’t cover up outdated policies and bad intentions Kampala, Uganda | JOSEPH WERE | It is great news that journalists have once again ignored the recent directive by the Minister of ICT and National Guidance, Chris Baryomunsi, to register …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A recent National Planning Authority (NPA) report on the re-opening of schools “Towards Safe Opening of The Education Sector in Covid-19 Times” indicates up to 30% of learners might fail to return. Whereas the report released in August acknowledged that worldwide, school closures …

International human rights bodies want ancient home restored Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The Ugandan government must recognise the Benet as the indigenous inhabitants of the forest from which it evicted them and restore them to their ancient home. Amnesty International, the London-based international human rights NGO made the …

  ‘We want to be considered as part of this country’ In early 2022, Uganda will be evaluated by the UN Human Rights Council on its human rights record; including its handling of the country’s indigenous minority groups. In a similar assessment in 2016, the government committed to give them …

Lessons from ordinary people on Kampala streets regarding the effect of good example on effective leadership THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | A couple of years back, advocate David Mpanga wrote a powerful article on “whataboutism.” He was criticising people in Africa that respond to Western intrusions into …