Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A second experimental Ebola vaccine, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson is due to be introduced in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This vaccine, which is given as a 2-dose course, 56 days apart, will be provided under approved protocols to targeted at-risk populations in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Federation of Medical Interns has criticized a move by the Health Ministry to change the training program from focusing on practical lessons in the four specialties of Surgery, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology to only two programs. Samuel Kigula, the President of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Intensive Care Unit-ICU at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital is dysfunctional due to lack of solar batteries to power the unit. Aisha Lubega Aligawesa, the Assistant Commissioner in charge of Nursing at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, says the unit has been dysfunctional for two …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has tasked Commonwealth countries to open up more space for women participation in decision making processes especially in Parliaments. Kadaga, who doubles as the President designate of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), was on Monday afternoon opening the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has expressed government commitment to solving land problems affecting the oil rich Bunyoro sub region. Museveni on Monday said government will soon come up with “special” modalities of addressing the continued land grabbing and evictions that have escalated in the region …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of delegates at the ongoing 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference-CPC have criticized governments for alleged failure to take steps to curb the increasing effects of climate change. This came up during the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Small Branches Conference at Speke Resort, Munyonyo …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Rubaga Grade One Magistrate, Joel Wegoye has remanded 135 suspects to Luzira prison for alleged possession of narcotics. The suspects who included both male and female appeared before court on Monday afternoon. The suspects, who appeared before the court in shifts, were charged …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The blast that killed one person in Matugga on Saturday was a projectile containing incendiary liquids, according to Police experts.  They believe that the object could have been abandoned by armed fighters in the 1980s in the area which forms part of Luweero Triangle, …

Washington, United States | AFP | US President Donald Trump on Monday swatted away mounting pressure from Democrats demanding his impeachment, as he rejected accusations that he sought to extort Ukraine into revealing dirt on his political rival Joe Biden. Trump said he is “not at all” worried about an impeachment …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Banana farmers in the greater Bushenyi districts have faulted the Presidential Initiative on banana industrial development for failing to address the challenge of post-harvest losses. The Presidential Initiative was established to facilitate the development of banana-based sustainable processing enterprises, to help farmers to add …