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Vernita Kayiwa and Tina Drazu will be the first Ugandan women to fly the wide body Airbus A330. They have gone further in their civilian flying careers than any Ugandan women ever, no mean feat and worth celebrating COMMENT |  DEREK NSEKO  |  Now that the dust has settled on Uganda …

How the space of the civil societies has been shrinking Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | On Feb, 03 the country woke up to the news that had President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ordered the Ministry of Finance to suspend all activities of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) for financing subversive …

Why not all of them, parents ask Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | How to take back Uganda’s 15 million learners back to school safely amidst a rampaging COVID-19 pandemic? That continues to be a sensitive subject for the government, parents, learners and health experts. Almost one year on since …

🔴 Eastern 144 🔴 Western 135 🔴 Northern 127 🔴 Central 105 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eastern Uganda has more Members of Parliament compared to the other regions. The current composition of Parliament gives the eastern region a total of 144 legislators followed by the western region which has …

So why did Bobi Wine go there? Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Feb.01 former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the 2021 election results that declared the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni winner. In the petition, Bobi Wine who ran …

📌 February 6 -7, 2021 – 34th AU SUMMIT & AUC elections Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Union (AU) will from midday today host its first virtual summit in Addis Ababa at which DRC’s Felix Antoine Tshisekedi will take over as chairperson, and elections of the AU Commission …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  The United States government has maintained a reward of up to USD 5 million (18.2 billion Shillings) for information that leads to the arrest, transfer, or conviction of Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army.   The reward was first announced by the Obama …

COVAX Starts Shipping COVID-19 Vaccines to Africa This Month Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | Uganda will be one of the beneficiaries of a COVAX initiative that will deliver lower cost COVID-19 vaccines to African countries this month. Uganda will purchase her share of 3.5million vaccines at $7. President Yoweri …

📌 BACK TO SCHOOL PLAN ✳️ Already at school P7, S4 & S6 ✳️ March 1 – P6, S3 & S5 resume studies ✳️ April – S1,S2,P1,P2,P3,P4,P5 staggered back ✳️ July – School year 2020 ends 📌 UNEB schedule ✳️ PLE March 30th & 31 ✳️ UCE exams March 1 …

Johannesburg, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT | MTV Base has postponed the 2021 MTV Africa Music Awards that were set to be held on February 20th 2021, in Uganda. ” MTV Base is postponing the 2021 MTV Africa Music Awards. We will keep fans updated as we have more news,” …