Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Police Force lacks a central data base for wanted suspects, according to a mini survey by URN at various Police Stations in Kampala. A wanted person database can be digital or manual detailing the names of the suspects, their pictures and other bio …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University Council has once again appointed Bruce Balaba Kabaasa as a member of the university Appointments Board, the unit in charge of all staff appointments and admissions in the University. Kabaasa will in addition head the University Council’s Finance, Planning, Administration and Investment …

Algiers, Algeria | AFP |  Ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared he will seek a fifth term in April elections in a message published by state media Sunday, after he was endorsed by his party and the ruling coalition. Bouteflika uses a wheelchair and has rarely been seen in public since …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has promoted more than 2,031  officers and men of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) to various ranks. One hundred of the officers were promoted to align with establishment appointments, 97 were promoted due to retirement, 130 were promoted for long …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Journalists Solomon Sserwanja has made a statement and been released on bond after police arrested his wife and colleagues, who they say were found with classified drugs. Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga said they recorded a statement from Serwanjja and thereafter released him on police bond. Sserwanja, …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three journalists working for the British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC), a driver and a Ministry of Health (MOU) communication officer have this morning been released on Police bond. NBS television journalist Solomon Sserwanja has also handed himself in to police. The journalists who include: Godfrey …

The underlying causes of current crises point to a need to reshape how economics is taught and practiced COMMENT | Edmund S. Phelps | Project Syndicate | The West is in crisis – and so is economics. Rates of return on investment are meager. Wages – and incomes generally – are …

Italian leaders irk Paris by backing the Yellow Jackets and denouncing French colonialism ANALYSIS | Hannah Roberts |  The 5Star Movement’s attempt to blame migrant deaths in the Mediterranean on Paris says more about the dire state of the Italian ruling coalition than the French colonial legacy in Africa. Paris was …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said that the Miss Curvy pageant was not a cabinet decision. On Tuesday, the State Minister in-charge tourism Godfrey Kiwanda launched the Miss Curvy Uganda pageant under the Tulambule Tourism project at Mestil Hotel. He explained that the pageant is …

  K ampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has accused his ministers of being selfish and sleepy, which he says affect potential investments in the country. “Many of these ministers are selfish, they think about themselves. If you don’t listen, then you are negative. You try to …