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The prosecution wanted application to be heard today, but the defense lawyers led by Frederick Mpanga and Erias Lukwago objected, saying that they were served on Thursday and that their clients haven’t gotten an opportunity to look through it. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Director of Public Prosecutions …

SOROTI, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Electoral Commission registered 71,301 new voters in the Teso subregion in the recently concluded general update of the National Voter’s Register exercise. The commission also recorded 46,517 applications of transfers of voters from different polling stations in the region. The voters were registered …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has remanded two leaders of the Uganda Liberal Teachers’ Union Members’ SACCO on charges of obtaining money by false pretence and conspiracy to defraud. The leaders are Evans Mutesasira Kaganizo, the SACCO Chairperson resident of Katanga Zone in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said that the late Eriya Kategaya was a trailblazer in the realm of patriotic politics in Uganda. Kategaya, who served as Uganda’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of East African Community Affairs, passed away on 2nd March 2013. “Kategaya …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police have identified the two people who died in the Wednesday fire that gutted the Sunrise Hotel Building in Kampala. Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, has identified the victims as Akot Akol Arop Chan, a South Sudan National and Shineni Mwinsadi, a …

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Angry residents have set ablaze a section of Jozan Nursery and Primary School in protest against the failure to physically produce suspects in court. The suspects were arrested in connection to the death of a pupil, Joan Faith Apio. Apio, 5, was only two …

KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Japan has donated five firefighting trucks to the Uganda Police Force (UPF). The donation comes a day after the Sunrise hotel building was gutted by fire, which took nearly four hours to completely contain. The firefighting trucks were received on Thursday by the Inspector …

But Afrobarometer finds issues they want fixed COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | The first poll linked to the 2025-26 election year is out.  On Feb.26, Afrobarometer, the Pan-African non-profit and non-partisan survey research network that provides reliable data on Africans’ experiences and evaluations of democracy, governance, and quality of life, …

KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Law Society (ULS) has condemned the escalating acts of violence witnessed during the Kawempe North parliamentary by-election campaigns. Addressing journalists at the Uganda Law Society Secretariat in Kampala, the ULS President Anthony Asiimwe said that the actions of security personnel who include …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kenya High Commissioner to Uganda Joash Maangi has apologized to the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) General Muhoozi Kainerugaba for last week’s publication of an article in a Kenyan newspaper, The Standard, which was disrespectful toward him. The story last week titled “Four-star brat: Why Muhoozi, …