Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kyotera police are holding one of their own officers over a missing gun. The suspect is Willy Kasujja, a police officer attached to Kasasa Police post in Kyotera district. He was picked up after his gun was reportedly stolen from him. Preliminary police investigations …
Read More »Crude oil pipeline to displace 400 households
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Construction of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline is projected to displace at least 400 households in nine districts of Uganda. The 1,445 Kilometers long pipeline will also economically affect a total of 3,000 households in Hoima, Kakumiro, Kyankwanzi, Mubende, Gomba, Sembabule, Lwengo, …
Read More »Mutebile decries delays in common currency achievement
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bank of Uganda governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile has decried the tardiness in hitting key targets to achieve a single currency for the East African Community bloc by 2024. The East African Monetary Union Protocol, signed in 2013, set 2024 as the year to have all …
Read More »Lake Victoria water level overtakes average
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The amount of rainfall received in the Lake Victoria Basin in the March to June season has overtaken its normal long term average. An analysis of data collected during the season indicates that water levels in the major lakes in the basin – Lake …
Read More »Karamoja residents resort to wildlife poaching, several arrested
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 37 people in Karamoja region have been arrested over the last one month for poaching small antelopes also known as dikidikis. Ediau Echodu, the Officer in charge of Bokora-Matheniko wild reserve corridor, says majority of the culprits are from Kidepo Pupu village in …
Read More »Cruising on the Zambezi
Lessons aplenty for Uganda from Zimbabwe’s water tourism Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe | RONALD MUSOKE | On a sunny late afternoon, Victor Madzimbamuto, 50, our boat captain welcomes us aboard Dighani Tours, a mid-sized vessel that is in effect a floating bar for patrons as they cruise on the Zimbabwean section …
Read More »Stella Nyanzi’s supporters remanded for inciting violence
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buganda Road Magistrates Court has yesterday remanded six supporters of jailed Dr Stella Nyanzi to Luzira Prison until August 16th, 2019. Grade one Magistrate Stella Maris Amabilis remanded the six on charges of inciting violence, contempt of court, assault and malicious damage on August …
Read More »Black men at highest risk of US police killing: study
Washington, United States | AFP | Black men in the United States are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by the police than their white counterparts, according to a new study published Monday that quantified racial disparities in law enforcement violence. High-profile killings including those of Michael Brown, Charleena …
Read More »Mugabe still in Singapore hospital since April: president
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe’s ex-leader Robert Mugabe remains hopsitalised in Singapore where he has been receiving medical care for four months, his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Monday. Mnangagwa said in a statement that the 95-year-old Mugabe had been receiving medical care for an undisclosed ailment, and was …
Read More »Bobi Wine unveils `red army’
But what future does he offer? Kampala, Uganda | AGATHER ATUHAIRE | When the People Power leader Robert Kyagulanyi commonly known as Bobi Wine named his coordinating team at his home in Magere Wakiso district on July 24, many were surprised to see prominent faces of people who are staunch …
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