Kyenjojo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police on Tuesday blocked independent presidential candidate, John Katumba, from holding a rally in Kyenjojo district. According to the Electoral Commission campaign program, Katumba was supposed to start campaigning in Tooro Sub-region by holding rallies in Kyenjojo and Kyegegwa districts. However, when he entered Kyenjojo …
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Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Independent Presidential Candidate, Fred Mwesigye on Tuesday was forced to halt his campaigns after his campaign programme clashed with that of John Katumba. On Tuesday Mwesigye was scheduled to campaign in Bundibugyo, Ntoroko and Kyenjojo districts. However, he abandoned his campaigns in Kyenjojo district after …
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Omoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | St. Mary’s Lapiny Oloyo Primary School in Koro Sub County at Atede Parish in Omoro District is embroiled in a land feud with a family in its neighbourhood. Grace Adong, a single mother of six children and person with disability told Uganda Radio Network on …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Banking institutions have since April restructured loans with clients worth 6.7 Trillion Shillings after repayments were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Bank of Uganda in April 2020 granted permission to all banking institutions to provide credit relief through the restructuring of loans of both corporate …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu City has received its first Dog Rescue Centre thanks to Big Fix Uganda. The Centre that is valued at Shillings 85 million was built with funding from the American People and is found in Pece Acoyo in Pece-Laroo Division South East of Gulu City. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | High court has set Monday next week to decide on whether or not to allow Musherure Shartsi Kutesa, one of the candidates for the Mawogola North constituency parliamentary seat to join an application filed by her rival Sodo Aine Kaguta against the ruling National Resistance …
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Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Presidential Candidate Gen Henry Tumukunde Kakurugu on Tuesday left his supporters in Kitgum Municipality disappointed after he abandoned the venue booked for his campaign. Gen Tumukunde was meant to address his supporters from Boma playground in Kitgum Municipality where he was allowed by the district …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A man in Nansana Municipality has been arrested after being found with a decomposing body of a young child locked in his room. Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Patrick Onyango identified the suspect who is currently locked-up at Nansana police station as Jacob Ssesanga, 19, alias …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Pader Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party chairperson has suspended four key party officials for alleged indiscipline. Justine Ocan suspended Mark Odongkara Obeda, the secretary for publicity who double as the party spokesperson, Opobo Comboni, district party registrar in charge of elections, Ojede Pacoto and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Independent presidential candidate Gen Henry Tumukunde Kakurugu has said the people of Acholi deserve a change of government more than anyone else. Tumukunde argues that the time is now for the people in Northern Uganda to liberate themselves. Gen Tumukunde says that the region is …
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