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Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three Ugandan businessmen are being held in Rwanda. The three include Bosco Nkwasiibwe, a resident of Kamwezi sub-county in Rukiga district, Dauliano Orikurungi from Kabale district and Siliaco Orishaba from Rubanda district. Peninah Karungi, a wife to Nkwasiibwe told our reporter on Sunday that …

Arua, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Political Leaders and Educationists in the West Nile are calling for deliberate efforts by the government to ensure regional equity in the enrollment of students to the higher education loan scheme.    The scheme is managed by the Higher Education Students Financing Board-HESFB, a government …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  250 Ugandan youths have completed a program designed to empower youth through the sport of tennis while also providing HIV/AIDS education.   Dubbed the Arthur Ashe Tennis Program, the initiative was implemented by the U.S. Mission in partnership with the Tartan Burners Athletic Club, the Uganda …

Mukono, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  President Yoweri Museveni has directed security agencies to install security lights along all roads surrounding the Uganda Christian University Campus in Mukono, to curtail attacks against students. The directive followed a request by the UCU guild president Timothy Kadaga on the basis of cumulative cases …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | China’s Ambassador to Uganda  Zheng Zhu-Qiang has assures parents of students studying in Wuhan that they his country will take care of their children like her own. The Chinese ambassador on Saturday met with the parents of Ugandan students who are in Wuhan, …

Masaka, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The suspended National Organizing Secretary of the Democratic Party Suleiman Kidandala has insisted on supervising the ongoing elections of party structures further compounding woes that have hit the party in recent months.    Kidandala was suspended by an extra-ordinary meeting of the Democratic Party National …

Mukono, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda Christian University-UCU is piloting an online voting application to be used in guild elections across all its campuses.   The university has previously been challenged to involve students from all its sister campuses in deciding their Guild President whose election is conducted at the main …

Mpigi, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Mpigi District Councilors are mooting a plan to censure their Chairperson, Peter Claver Mutuluza amidst a row on the composition of the District Service Commission.   The district has been embroiled in a fight over the leadership of the District Service Commission, since the end of …

Moroto, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Belgian Ambassador to Uganda Rudi Veestraeten has lauded government’s efforts in skilling the youths for real-life employment through technical education. Ambassador Veestraeten said the approach by the government to promote skills development through technical education program known as skilling Uganda is the right path to …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  More than 2,000 delegates are expected to attend the G77+China summit that is to be held at the Common Wealth Resort Hotel Munyonyo between April 17-19.  The G77 is the largest intergovernmental organization of developing countries in the United Nations, used as a platform to …