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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kasim Okodan, a businessman in Bukedea has sued his former wife for marrying off their daughter without his consent. Okodan, 62, a resident of Tank cell in Kide ward wants his estranged wife Frances Apedo to unveil the man or group of people whom he …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF has turned down a request by the South Sudan government officials to hand over guns and ammunition captured from suspected South Sudan bandits. During a bilateral security meeting held at Orom sub-county headquarters in Kitgum district on Tuesday, the South Sudan …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 10,000 families in six villages in Kigorobya sub county in Hoima district are on the verge of being evicted forcefully from their ancestral land. The affected families are from Kigomba, Kyamucumba, Kalyambuzi, Kyataruga, Kamugembe 1 and Kyamugembe 2 villages. The residents are feuding …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police leadership has resolved to deploy two Special Police Constables –SPCs at all polling stations in areas regarded as hotspots. Police have recruited and trained 50,000 SPCs who will be deployed to guide voters at 34,344 polling stations. Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson said …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliamentary candidates in Omoro district have focused their campaigns on addressing the plights of children with nodding syndrome in the area. Many cases of nodding disease have been reported in Odek sub county. According to records, there are more than 200 children affected by the …

Mbale, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The two factions of Inzu Ya Masaba have issued contradictory statement about the burial arrangements of the late Umukuka Bob Saul Kipiro Mushikor.  Mushikor succumbed to diabetes at his residence on Union Road in Mbale City on Monday afternoon. His body is lying in the …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  A section of Members of Parliament from the National Resistance Movement has dismissed concerns from the opposition who claim that the night-time curfew will jeopardize the credibility of next week’s elections. Ugandans will be heading to the polls on the 14th of January to …

Masaka, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Two separate zoom conference meetings for National Resistance Movement-NRM mobilizers in greater Masaka sub region ended in chaos on Tuesday evening after participants started fighting for transport allowance.    The meeting that involved different categories of people including the business community; leaders of Boda boda group …

Moroto, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Seventy-eight politicians right from the district, municipality and sub county levels in Moroto lack pit latrines in their residential premises.  The politicians have named in one and half page of shame produced by the Moroto District Health Director, Dr. Hanes Lokales.  According to Dr. Lokales, most …

Kitgum, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Security personnel in Kitgum have released 15 suspected armed South Sudanese bandits.  The suspects were arrested on separate occasions between October and December last year by Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF soldiers over illegal entry and possession of firearms along with the border districts of Lamwo …