Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Majority of the children reporting at the Uganda Heart Institute with congenital heart disease is as a result of rubella viral disease. Dr Alfred Driwale, the Programme Manager Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunisation – UNEPI at the Ministry of Health said 60% of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Platform for Labour Action wants all National Social Security Fund- NSSF members to get mid-term access to their savings. The Legal Officer of the organisation, Naimah Bukenya on Thursday submitted views to the joint committee for Gender and Finance on the NSSF Bill. The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan economy is bigger than previously estimated, with new numbers showing Ugandans are much richer than had been thought, according to Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). According to UBOS, they rebased the economy using the prices of 2015/16 financial year. This saw Uganda’s size …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Youth Activists have launched a campaign to document torture cases in the country. Dubbed “Speak Up against Torture Black Book” the campaign was launched on Thursday at Emerald Hotel. The activists are organized under the Alternative Social Movement, the Red Top Brigade Movement, Jobless …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Flying Squad Unit –FSU operatives are hunting for two caretakers suspected to have strangled, to death Med Kahuuma, a Tuberculosis-TB patient. Kahuuma, according to Deputy Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, was being taken care of by Edgar and Mark. The suspicious death was …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The results of 56 candidates who sat the Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB) examinations have been cancelled by the examinations body due to malpractices. Onesmus Oyesigye, the Board’s Executive Secretary revealed this on Thursday at the release of results for the final …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A dispute between Lira Municipal Council authority and the town Clerk, Samuel Ahabwe is threatening the implementation of the Uganda Support to Municipality Infrastructural Development-USMID. Last week, Lira municipality councillors asked the Local Government Ministry to transfer Ahabwe accusing him of failing to implement …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has said that a recent recommendation by the Commonwealth Conference to adopt post-legislative scrutiny would be discussed further to see whether Uganda should adopt the practice. Kadaga was on Thursday addressing journalists through a tweet chat on the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has started distributing vaccines for the upcoming Polio, Measles and Rubella immunization campaign. 20 million doses of measles-rubella vaccine and 10 million doses of polio vaccines have been procured for the exercise that kicks off on Wednesday, October 16th and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has said that she does not know the exact number of vehicles that were procured for the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference. Kadaga was on Thursday responding to questions raised by journalists and members of the public in a …