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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers representing retired General Henry Tumukunde in the case where he is challenging the summons to appear before the Criminal Investigations Department of Police have this afternoon clashed with trial Judge Musa Ssekaana who declined to summon the CID director AIGP Grace Akullo. The proceedings …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have recovered two bodies from the Nakivubo channel after today’s heavy downpour in Kampala. The two bodies were recovered near Total fuel station where they were carried by floods water from different parts of the city. Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson Patrick Onyango has identified …

Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Uganda Tourism Board has today (Sept.11) launched a domestic tourism campaign dubbed ‘Take on the Pearl’ as a mechanism to revamp sector growth that has been battered by COVID-19 lockdown. “The pandemic has created an opportunity for us to look inwards and therefore travel our …

Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Moroto government prison has been closed to new inmates after 30 inmates tested positive to Covid-19 on Thursday. All 30 have been evacuated to Jinja isolation centre for treatment while over 200 other inmates have been placed under quarantine. The 30 left Moroto government …

Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Masindi are holding a 24-year-old woman on allegations of defiling five boys. Police has identified the  suspect as Scovia Nyamusana, a resident of Kamurasi cell, Nyangahya division in Masindi district. The victims whose names have been withheld because they are juveniles are …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 33 teenage girls in Acholi are being made pregnant everyday since the lockdown when they stopped going to school. In all so far, a whopping 4,000 girls in the Acholi sub-region have become pregnant in four months of the lockdown an average …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There was chaos in Naguru remand home 2 polling station in the LCV woman councilor NRM primaries after the losing camp refused to be counted. Although the election for other positions was held peacefully at the polling station located in Nakawa division on Friday, …

Kiryandongo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Game rangers attached to Murchison Falls National National Park have arrested a poacher they caught red handed selling baboon meat to travelers along Kampala-Gulu highway in Kiryandongo district. Wilson Kagoro, the community conservation warden at Murchison Falls National Park identifies the suspect as 28-year-old …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Religious leaders have committed to ensuring that their platforms and premises are not used as havens for corruption. They equally committed to pushing for the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Act, 2009 that provides for asset recovery.   The commitment was made at the end of a …

Luweero, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Government Spokesperson Ofwono Opondo has said the attack at his family home on Thursday night was plotted by those opposing the government in order to spread fear among people who vigorously oppose them.  Last night at around 8:30 pm, two unidentified men wearing black …