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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mukono police division is stuck with children chased away by their bosses from homes where they were engaged in child labour as maids after President Yoweri Museveni declared the 42 days lockdown. The children are Sharuwa Sitenda,16, a daughter to Khulais Kakooza and Sharifah Namugga, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The lawyers representing eight people who were arrested by the security forces in relation to the murder of a driver and a daughter to Works and Transport Minister General Katumba Wamala have filed an application demanding for their production in court. The eight are: Kamada …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Muhammad Byaruhanga, an orthopedist attached to Kabale Regional Referral Hospital is nursing wounds after being tortured by the escorts of Kabale Resident District Commissioner, Darius Nandinda. Byaruhanga told URN on Monday afternoon that the RDC’s police guards beat him on Sunday night towards 9:00pm as …

Twenty-one years and still counting, Pader district is without a district hospital and is struggling to manage the second wave of COVID-19 Pader, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The absence of a hospital has denied Pader district the opportunity of receiving medical oxygen needed to support the management of Covid-19 critical …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbale central market vendors are choking on unpaid electricity and water bills. The water and electricity in the market has been on and off forcing vendors to vacate the market as early as 5:00pm because of the darkness. According to market authorities, the market owes …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have called for the compensation of health workers and policemen who succumb to COVID-19.  The MPs mostly from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) say that while front-line workers were dying in the line of duty, their families are not duly compensated upon …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Internal Affairs Ministry has warned blacklisted labour export firms against withholding the passports and National Identity cards of the people they had planned to send out before their suspension. Last week, the government suspended eight labour export firms. The affected firms include the Middle …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Members of Parliament have questioned the continued payment of legislators without working. The MPs forming part of the Opposition leadership led by Betty Nambooze, MP Mukono Municipality and Kalungu West MP, Joseph Ssewungu, say that the payments of their allowances without work …

Medics have called for special isolation centres for health workers to receive free services when they contract COVID-19 in line of duty Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unionists have asked the government to copy from their regional neighbours and reign in on ensuring that health workers get timely treatment when they …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police are hunting down a group of ten suspected thugs who reportedly broke into a house and robbed its Chinese occupants of more than 200 million shillings. Charles Twine, the Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID spokesperson said the thugs broke into the house located in Kisingiri zone, …