Tag Archives: Uganda

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In a bid to improve its visibility in the paint market, Sadolin Paint in partnership with Joseph Kanaaba, a local businessman has launched a colour center at Freedom City Mall along Entebbe Road. The spacious establishment will be home to all Sadolin products and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Total Uganda has unveiled a new cashless payment solution for its customers as it strives to increase convenience at all its 128 service stations as well as enhance revenue growth. The new card that goes for Shs11, 800, will also enable customers pay for other …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT COVER STORY Should government takeover UMEME job?: Karuma, Isimba power raises new questions. THE LAST WORD Reconsidering governance in Africa: Why our obsession with copying and pasting western institutions causes more harm than good. BANKING Will …

THIS WEEK: Judges conference focus on extending justice to the disadvantaged Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Judges on Jan.22 embarked on a week-long conference to brain storm on how to improve Uganda’s justice system. Held at Speke Resort Munyonyo, Paul Gadenya the registrar of courts said that the gist of …

THIS WEEK: 25 peace corps education volunteers sworn in Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The US Ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac on Jan.18 presided over a swearing in ceremony for 25 new Peace Corp volunteers specializing in educational activities. The group of the US volunteers who will be in Uganda …

THIS WEEK: Radiation treatment resumes after two years halt Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Patients requiring radiotherapy can now get treatment at the Uganda Cancer Institute after the machine that had broken down in 2016 was officially replaced on Jan.19. The new machine is set to handle 80 patients a …

THIS WEEK: Parliament week marked, participants raise money for albinos Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Shs75million was collected on Jan.21 in a campaign kicked off by parliament as part of events to mark its annual parliament week celebrations. The money will be used to construct a medical center and a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four days after being beaten into a coma, Ugandan musician Moses Ssekibogo aka Mowzey Radio of the Goodlyfe Crew remains in intensive care at Case Hospital in Kampala. Radio was reportedly knocked out cold by assailants on Monday in Entebbe after an altercation at De Bar. Police …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said the National Resistance Movement has in the past 32 years set the stage to be in position to tackle, step by step, the residual problems and convert Uganda into a middle-income country by 2020 and an upper middle-income country …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT| President Yoweri Museveni has singled out indiscpline on the roads as one barrier that needs to be overcome in Uganda’s drive to be considered fully stable. He urged the police to crackdown on reckless drivers, boda bodas (bicycles) and matatus (taxis). “I have heard foreigners …