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Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Court of Appeal has blocked Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) from leasing a piece of land under dispute. In 2008, the then Kampala City Council (KCC) leased the land on Port Bell road, Kiswa in Nakawa Division measuring 0.092 hectares to Nowomugisha Shadrack Nzaire, …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 17 people have been killed in an accident at Kamdini in Oyam District. The bus registration number UAT 259P traveling from Kampala to Kitgum through Gulu rammed into a trailer registration number UAZ 381A at around midnight at Adebe Cell, Western Ward in Kamdini Town council …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 15 people are feared dead in an accident after a Roblyn Bus headed for Kitgum hit a parked trailer at Kamdini on the Gulu-Kampala highway just after midnight last night. DETAILS TO FOLLOW  BREAKING.15 People have been confirmed dead from a nasty …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament want the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to explain the recent shift to programme based budgeting from sector based budgeting. The Budget Committee on Thursday, 05 January 2023 together with other committee chairpersons was expected to meet the Ministry of …

Masaka, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | A Chinese firm carrying out commercial sand extraction has defied orders to suspend its operations in the buffer zone of Lake Birinzi. Last month, Bukakata sub county leaders and the greater Masaka Regional Environmental Police closed down one of the company’s sand mining sites located …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | MpaMpe is a digital hybrid crowd-funding application that seeks to bridge the gap between the needy or campaigners, and funders or sponsors, to support their ideas through a transparent model and accountability of funds. Founded in 2021 by five Makerere University students: Maria Luzinda, Emmilly …

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A two-year-old boy was on Wednesday hit by a stray bullet fired by flying squad operatives attached to the Albertine regional police. The victim, ltakabir Kyakuhaire is a resident of Bulemwa village in Hoima West Division, Hoima city. Kyokuhaire was injured when the operatives opened …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Ethanol is an environmentally friendly way of fighting black coffee twig borer, a relatively new pest ravaging coffee plants in Uganda, according to researchers at the National Coffee Research Institute-NACORI. The researchers say that ethanol attracts the black coffee twig borer into the traps and …

Pader, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Michael Obol, the LC3 chairperson Burlobo parish, Angagura sub-county, Pader district has been arrested for diverting two animals meant for children suffering from nodding syndrome. The two animals are part of the 208 oxen distributed to 104 families affected by nodding syndrome in Pader district. …

Iganga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Six-year-old Sharon Nabwire, on Tuesday died after eating meat suspected to be laced with poison. Nabwire and her five other family members, all residents of Bukamba village, Idudi town council ate supper together on Monday but failed to move out of their house in …