Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Six COVID-19 patients have escaped from the Mulago Specialised National Referral Hospital where they have been on treatment, the Deputy Executive Director, Dr. Rose Mary Banyima has revealed. While she couldn’t reveal the identities of the COVID-19 patients, she said one was admitted with his …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Airlines says its first airbus, A330-800neo aircraft will start flights by the end of January 2021. Roger Wamala, the Uganda Airlines commercial director says the national carrier’s Airbus’ first flight will be to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He told Uganda Radio Network that this …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Muslim community in Teso sub region have received a one-billion-shilling orphanage project constructed in Campswahili, Soroti city. The facility whose construction took two years comprises ten classrooms, two teachers board rooms, six dormitories, ten self-contained teachers houses and a kitchen. The project funded by …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Kyakatagwa village in Ndolo parish in Kabira sub-county in Kyotera district have teamed up with police to search for the body of a 16-year-old girl who decided to end her life protesting the arrest of her boyfriend. The teenager decided to jump in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Independent presidential candidate retired Lt. General Henry Tumukunde has accused the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party of plotting to manipulate the 2021 presidential election results. His comment stems from an opinion poll published by ‘The Red pepper’ tabloid on Monday showing that the incumbent was …
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Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents in Busia district are demanding for the closure of Wagagai gold mining company after nearly a third of the workers checked tested positive for covid-19. The said gold mining company has over 400 workers and occupies more than 2,000 acre of land in the …
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Amudat, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tegla Chepolukuma was 13-years- old when her friends advised her to go for Female Genital cutting alias Female Genital Mutilation. She recalls how her peers kept counting the days to the D– day. “When that day reached I remember it was on Wednesday, my grandmother arrived …
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Bwerenga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Half of the votes cast at Bwerenga (N-Z) Radio polling station in Kisubi Parish, Busiro South County in Wakiso District in the 2016 presidential elections were invalid. According to the EC register, there were 734 registered voters at Bwerenga (N-Z) Radio polling station. In the …
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Mpigi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 36 essential public servants in Mpigi district have tested positive for COVID-19 in a space of two weeks. The Mpigi Chief Administrative Officer, Moses Kanyarutokye disclosed this in a December 21st, 2020 memo to heads of department, administrative secretaries and security officers. “Mpigi …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Solomon Herbert Kaddu, who was locked up for attacking, Bishop Kityo Luwalira during the 2018 Easter prayers at Namirembe cathedral has petitioned high court challenging the continued detention of people with mental disabilities in various prisons across the country. Kaddu was arrested after he stormed the …
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