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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have arrested, Moses Angoria, a security guard attached to Quality Shopping Village Parking Lot in Naalya on allegations of shooting dead a businessman, Arnold Ainebyona Mugisha. Deputy Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire confirmed the incident, saying Angoria shot Ainebyona in the mouth …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda freight forwarders are urging industry players to come together and speak with one voice on issues that affect the industry. According to Hussein Kiddedde, the Chairman Uganda Freight Forwarders Association (UFFA), the industry is fragmented which means that they don’t know their members and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE chairperson, Mubarak Munyagwa has formed a subcommittee to investigate fraudulent acquisition of departed Asians’ property. In 1983, the Departed Asians’ Property Custodian Board was put in charge of between 9,000 to 10,000 properties of Asians …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The recent attacks targeting mobile money operators and Boda boda riders have drawn the attention of parliament. Members of Parliament want Government to explains the attacks, which have claimed the lives of several mobile money operators and Boda boda riders. Robina Rwakojo, the Gomba …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has faulted the Mubende Regional Referral Hospital Director, Alex Andema over a 777.8 million Shillings wrongly expenditure on a stalled building.  Andema and other hospital officials on Tuesday appeared before the committee chaired by Budadiri West MP Nathan Nandala Mafabi …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has said that the proposed registration of coffee farmers will cut off middlemen and also ensure development of the coffee sector in the country. Government through the National Coffee bill 2018 seeks to register and license coffee farmers. The bill also proposes that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Criminal Investigations commanders have called for refresher courses for police officers under Field Force Unit (FFUs). In the resolutions signed by over 348 CID commanders during a five-day retreat and presented by Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) Secretary Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Richard Lutalo, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Barnabas Mustapha Mugisha, one of the witnesses summoned to testify in the cyber harassment case against Stella Nyanzi on Tuesday refused to testify saying he did not know why he was summoned in court. Mugisha is one of the 10 defence witnesses that were …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rural households in Northern Uganda that had access to mobile money services didn’t report a reduction in the number of meals they had in the past week when there was a food squeeze, a new study has said. Also, people who had access …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party has started a regional mobilization drive in West Nile ahead of the 2021 general elections. While addressing the Media in Arua town on Monday, The FDC Party President Engineer Patrick Amuriat Oboi said their mission is to …