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Teso war claimants speak out on the hurdles when seeking compensation

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pius Omukat lost 48 heads of cattle, 20 goats and several other properties in 1987. Omukat, 67, a resident of Kamuge village in Pallisa district is among the 200,500 people under Teso War Victims and Cattle Rustling Debt Claimants’ Association seeking compensation from government over the …

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Patient attendants at Jinja hospital lynch suspected thief

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Patient attendants at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital have lynched a suspected thief. The attendants ganged up against the suspect estimated to be in his late 30’s on Friday night accusing him of stealing items from different wards. They descended on the suspect with sticks, stones and …

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Kabaka calls upon leaders to uphold justice, respect human rights

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II has called for equitable distribution of resources for Uganda to move forward. The Kabaka was presiding over the kingdom’s day of community service, also known as Bulungibwansi at his Mengo palace on the eve of Uganda’s 59th Independence …

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Obote speech on eve of Uganda’s Independence 1962

Prime Minister Obote speech on eve of Uganda’s Independence in 1962 “Countrymen and friends, At midnight tonight Uganda shall become Independent. We shall have a Uganda flag, a National Anthem and Coat of Arms. These will be symbols, but independence does not begin and end with the selection and raising …

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Incorporate business and human rights into national investment legal frameworks, government told

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda needs to incorporate guiding principles on business and human rights into the national investment regulatory frameworks to strike balance between the investor rights and the state, according to Jane Nalunga, the Executive Director at the Southern and Eastern African Trade Institute –SEATINI Uganda. Nalunga, who …

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Nurses strike over non payment of Covid-19 allowances

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of nurses deployed at the KCCA primary school COVID-19 vaccination center in Kamwokya have shunned the exercise protesting non-payment of their allowances. The nurses are entitled to a daily allowance of Shillings 5000, which is meant to facilitate their movement. However, the nurses have …

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Museveni praises religious leaders on NRM ideology

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has commended religious leaders for shunning radicalism, prioritizing a message of transforming society and not engaging in unnecessary wars. Museveni said that the present-day religious leaders are not like their predecessors who got disoriented and emphasized religious differences rather than unity in diversity. …

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Headteacher handed life sentence for sodomising six pupils

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Didas Mpagi, the former headteacher of Real Infant Primary School in Wakiso district has earned himself a life sentence for sodomizing six boys in his school. He was convicted by Justice David Wangututsi of the International Crimes Division who found him guilty of six counts of …

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Umeme’s day out with SOS children

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Power utility company Umeme has supported SOS Children’s Village with an assortment of scholastic materials including textbooks, laptop computers, exercise books and homecare utensils worth Shs44.5 million. The Corporate Social Responsibility initiative was aimed at giving back to the communities with in which the company operates …

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