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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts have expressed concern over the continued lack of special adolescent health clinics or corners in public health facilities in Kampala. The experts including doctors, Ministry of Health officials, clerks, politicians, and private individuals who run adolescent clinics say that the youth desks and centres …

Pakwach, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Heavy flooding of River Tangi near Pakwach bridge has cut off traffic flow along Karuma-Pakwach highway via Nwoya district. The affected road intersection is just 500 meters after Pakwach bridge in Nwoya district. The incident which happened between 7:00am and 8:00am this morning cut off …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tolbert Onyango, head coach of Uganda’s Rugby Sevens team, has named a 12-man squad for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town, South Africa from September 9 to 11. Michael Wokorach and Ian Munyani will lead the team as captain and vice-captain respectively, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Kampala has raised a red flag over the emergence of criminal gangs using children to attack victims. Although Kampala has had a series of criminals victimizing pedestrians, riders and drivers, change in the methods of operation of the gangs known as Egaali …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City Hall Court has sentenced 25 women to seven weeks in jail for deploying children on different streets of Kampala to beg for money. The women many of whom appeared before the court with their children were arrested last month from different parts of the …

Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A hippopotamus has killed 12 cows and injured 20 others in Kikuube district. The hippo has been raiding Kyehoro lower and Kyehoro upper landing sites in Nkondo parish, Kabwoya sub-county for the past two weeks, the latest being on Thursday night. The hippo emerges from …

Ntungamo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of mourners on Friday were treated to a dramatic scene at the burial service of Yonasani Kanyomozi, the former Minister of Cooperatives and Marketing in the Obote II government, when a helicopter landed nearby. The 5X-MAH blue-white ribbon police helicopter that had delivered …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Magistrates Court has declined to issue criminal summons against Dr Kizza Besigye. Besigye is jointly charged with former Rubaga South Constituency parliamentary candidate Samuel Lubega Mukaaku over offenses stemming from their June 14th, 2022 protest against the skyrocketing prices of commodities in the …

Kisoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Congolese refugees in Kisoro district have asked the government to relocate them to transit centers and camps in their country and not to Nyakabande refugee transit centre. More than 20,00 refugees are camping in Bunagana, Rukundo, Mpaka town councils, Muramba, and Nyarubuye sub-counties following fighting between …

Nwoya, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Nwoya district are probing the sudden death of Charles Ochakacon, the Division Prisons Commander attached to Amuru and Nwoya districts. The 54-year-old officer reportedly collapsed and died moments later on Thursday evening at Continental bar and lodge in Purongo town council, Nwoya district. …