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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court Commercial Division has dismissed a commercial case filed by Fabrice Brad Rulinda, the Entebbe mayor, against Stanbic Bank Uganda over a disputed deposit of $73,262.50 (about Shs273 million) linked to the M23 rebel group in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 43 Ugandans have been arrested in the past seven months for attempting to apply for visas to the United States of America using forged documents. Addressing journalists at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, James Bloomer, the Regional Security Officer at the United …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) Party president Olara Otunnu has described his rare public photo moment with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in Gulu City as a surprise, saying the moment was not planned. The two leaders briefly met and posed for photographs on Saturday …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Owing to the growing creative economy and the increasing value of intellectual property, the Center for Law, Policy, and Innovation Initiative (CeLPII), in partnership with the Africa Creatives Alliance (ACA), will host a high-level dialogue on intellectual property-backed lending on March 19 at Motiv, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It is a place where silence should reign, but at the Mulago National Referral Hospital mortuary, the air is more often filled with the sounds of impatient shouting, wailing, and the heavy toll of bureaucracy. While the facility sits quietly opposite the Kampala City …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 7,000 illegal gaming machines worth Shs8.8 billion have been seized across Uganda over the past five years in operations aimed at curbing unlicensed gaming and protecting the public from exploitation. The enforcement operations, conducted from the 2021/2022 financial year to date, targeted unlicensed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Catholic bishops of Uganda are expected in Rome for their ad limina apostolorum visit, marking the second group of African bishops to meet Pope Leo XIV in recent weeks as part of the periodic Vatican pilgrimages. Available information from Catholic Secretariat – Nsambya …

  Kagadi , Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Nankurabye Cell discovered the body of a four-year-old boy in a pond near Ebenezer Nursery and Primary School on Friday morning, after organizing a search when he failed to return from school. The deceased has been identified as Josephat Twinamasiko, a …

  Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Resident District Commissioners (RDCs) in the Lango sub-region have been urged to actively participate in district planning meetings to strengthen monitoring and oversight of government programmes. The call was made at the closing of a three-day capacity-building training that brought together Resident City Commissioners …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | When Julius Nyanzi walks into a room filled with scientists, he does not begin with complex formulas or laboratory jargon. Instead, he starts with a simple but provocative idea: “Money grows on trees.” For many, the phrase sounds like a joke or a cliché …