Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID is investigating more than 50 private secondary schools on allegations of inflating Universal Secondary Education –USE student enrollment to fleece the government billions of money. Charles Twine, CID Spokesperson, says that a probe is underway to establish how the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The heavy deployment of both the army and police in Hoima has raised concerns among voters. Voting is currently going on for the Hoima Woman MP seat. The army and the Anti-riot police have heavily been deployed in most parts of Hoima town and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State House Health Monitoring Unit-HMU has stopped Masaka Regional Referral Hospital management from increasing staff contributions towards maintaining their quarters. It follows a proposal by Masaka Regional Referral Hospital management to increase the fees from Shillings 30,000 to Shillings 50,000 each month. Dr. …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eight people in Hoima are trouble for alleged voter bribery in the ongoing Hoima woman MP By-elections. The suspects whose identities have been withheld by security were picked up from Kabale village in the newly created Kabale sub county by a joint security …

Overturning perception of art as elitist Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | In any part of the world today, in any art gallery or museum of contemporary art, it is no longer unusual to encounter a black and white or coloured photo image sedately sitting behind a glass frame or …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has said that it does not have enough stocks for Ebola hemorrhagic fever vaccines. Uganda embarked on vaccinating its front line and health workers in November last year. By March, over 4,000 personnel from high-risk districts had been immunized during an …

How Uganda is using old and new laws crack down on citizens, activists and politicians who criticise the president COMMENT | RONALD KAKUNGULU-MAYAMBAL Activists who use digital media are protected by international law and protocols that guarantee freedom of expression. Under international law, freedom of expression is also protected on …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An innovation institute in memory of the Founding Father of Uganda’s Independence Movement, Ignatius Kangave Musaazi is in the offing. Musaazi, one of the only two national heroes buried at Kololo Independence Grounds alongside former President Kironde Lule, is remembered as the founder of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Rwenzururu Kingdom is rallying its subjects to embrace tree planting as one of the ways to solve the various climatic challenges in the Rwenzori region. The area has suffered extreme weather conditions ranging from drought, storm winds and floods. Kasese suffered devastating floods in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buganda Kingdom has courted delegates of the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) to invest in different projects in the Kingdom. Led by the Speaker of Johor State in Malaysia, Suhaizan Bin Kaiat, a section of Commonwealth delegates from Canada, Pakistan, Fiji, India, Gambia, Australia and …