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Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Four American tourists and a Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed on an island in a lake in northwest Kenya, police said Monday. The accident occurred in the Central Island National Park in Lake Turkana at around 8pm (1700 GMT) on Sunday, police …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Registration for the 2019 Annual Meetings of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), which will be held in Moscow, has opened, according to information released today by the Bank. Afreximbank announced in Cairo that intending participants for the meetings, dubbed AAM2019, could register by visiting …

Can Kasekende, Mutebile, Ssekabira, Bagyenda escape?   Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | Fire. Prosecute. Jail. These appear to be some of the recommendations many expected to be in the report that Abdul Katuntu, the Bugweri County legislator and chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities, and State Enterprises …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector General of Government (IGG) Irene Mulyagonja has asked the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) to investigate members of the COSASE committee of Parliament for soliciting bribes during the recent probe into the irregular sale of commercial banks. The directive by the IGG is …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector General of Police-IGP, John Martin Okoth Ochola has declined to renew the licenses of Private Security Organisation-PSOs until their employees and criminal records are fully audited. As a result, more than 130 privately registered security firms have been operating without licenses since …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Most subscribers to the National Social Security Fund-NSSF are reluctant to update their details. The NSSF Managing Director, Richard Patrick Byarugaba disclosed this during their Western Region Client’s meeting in Masaka on Tuesday. He explained that their records show that only 36 percent of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One other person has been added to the file on the murder of Former Buyende District Police Commander Muhammad Kirumira. The file had been recalled by the DPP for advice on how to proceed with the trial of Abubaker Kalungi, one of the suspects …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Joint Staff Associations of Makerere University have blamed Makerere University disputes over the fusion between University council and management. The staff associations; Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA), Makerere Administrative Staff Association (MASA) and the National Union of Education Institutions (NUEI) were on …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new juvenile criminal gang known as “Dog tulumbe” is wreaking havoc in Nansana Municipality and parts of Northern Kampala.  The gang members, aged between nine and 16 years, move in groups of five to seven targeting people with money and other valuables. Victim …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Education and Sports Ministry is set to hire 22,000 teachers in the 2019/2020 financial year, URN has learnt. This follows the lifting of a ban on teacher recruitment by the Finance Ministry. Last year, the Finance Ministry stopped attempts by Ministry Education and Sports …