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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several travelers have taken advantage of the return of private vehicles on Ugandan roads to ask for lifts to their destinations. On Tuesday, private vehicles returned to the road following the easing of the Covid-19 lockdown. In his last televised Covid-19 address, President Yoweri Museveni …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Secretary to the Treasury, Keith Muhakanizi has said Uganda will be lucky to grow at all in the calendar year 2020, underlining the extent of battering the coronavirus (COVID-19) has had on the country’s economy. Muhakanizi was today speaking at an event to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Anglican Church will hold a televised service to commemorate Uganda Martyrs day. The day held annually on June 3,  is in honour of the martyrdom of 45 young men who converted to Christianity between 1885 and 1887 to the annoyance of Kabaka Mwanga …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Companies that produce formula are feeding off the ignorance of mothers on breastmilk production to sell their products. This is according to paediatricians and nutritionists who point out that many advertisements about formula make mothers believe that such substitutes are equal to breastmilk. A report …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s fish exports have gone down by nearly 70 percent as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic according to the Uganda Fish Processors and Exporters Association (UFPEA). The Association’s acting CEO William Tibyasa Mwesigye says that Uganda exported 2,000 tons of fish in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police Constable Alex Oduku who was guarding Mbale High Court Judge Jesse Rugyema Byaruhanga has been arrested. The arrest is in relation to an accident in which a traffic officer Innocent Ayesigye lost his life on Sunday in Seeta along the Kampala-Jinja highway. Constable …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local pharmaceutical Company Cipla Quality Chemicals Industries (CiplaQC) will this weekend produce its first quantities of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine which has also been used in the treatment of people with coronavirus. The company executive director Nevin J. Bradford told URN that they received raw …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 lockdown has affected the operations of village saving groups in Mbale district as members are failing to repay loans advanced to them. The banks give out loans to especially subscribed members who operate petty businesses and farming. The loans usually range from …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Independent business writer, Isaac Khisa, has once again emerged as one of the five winners of the 2020 Pan-African Re-Insurance Journalist Awards organized by the leading Pan-African Reinsurance firm, Continental Reinsurance Plc. The virtual awards ceremony was held on May 27 2020, following the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Normal operations in the Courts in Uganda shall have to wait until the general opening of public transport, the Chief Justice Bart Katureebe, has said. The directive is contained in the revised contingency measures to prevent and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the …