Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | General Salim Saleh, the National coordinator for Operation Wealth Creation has rallied support from the private sector to attract investment in Gulu to meet international market standards. Saleh told Uganda Radio Network on Saturday in an interview that Gulu city is best suited for an …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has improved in the ranking of coffee quality produced according to the just released international rating. According to the Coffee Quality Institute of the United States of America, Uganda is third best of the countries producing quality coffee in the world. Uganda comes third …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Hoima has arrested a Uganda Peoples Defense Forces-UPDF soldier for shooting dead a civilian. The suspect is Solomon Baker Bakabe who was deployed to guard the camp site for China Railway construction company in Mparo cell Hoima East division along the Hoima-Masindi …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has dismissed claims that he has political differences with the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga. Speaking to NRM delegates from the districts of Kamuli and Buyende who had converged at Kamuli youth center compound on Saturday, Museveni argued that he could not harbor …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Presidential candidate John Katumba has promised electorate in Mbarara that once he is voted into the presidency, he will construct a stadium in every district. Katumba who had a procession all through Mbarara streets kept pulling crowds that thronged him paralyzing traffic flow on the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has threatened to recall UPDF officers attached to the Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU over corruption-related claims. Speaking to NRM delegates from the districts of Kamuli and Buyende on Saturday, the National Resistance Movement-NRM flag bearer said that he deployed FPU to clean up …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Unity Platform-NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi has dismissed the charges against his private bodyguard Norbert Elber Ariho as mere fabrications. Police arrested Ariho on Thursday evening in Buhuro, Manafwa district at one of Kyagulanyi’s rallies accusing him of being in possession of teargas canisters, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gen. Mugisha Muntu Gregg, the Alliance For National Transformation-ANT presidential candidate has pledged to uplift the standards of education in the country and make agriculture a profitable venture. Speaking to Uganda Radio Network in an interview over the weekend in Kitgum municipality, Gen Muntu says …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has joined other National Resistance Movement-NRM leaders to eulogize fallen Muslim cleric, Nuhu Muzaata. Muzaata breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the International Hospital Kampala on Friday afternoon. Speaking to journalists at the sideline of Museveni’s third campaign …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers under their humanitarian umbrella, the Legal Aid Service Providers Network-LASPNET have petitioned the arms and institutions of government to hold a dialogue aimed at putting an end to violence in the country. In the recent weeks as the politicians and the general public prepared …
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