Over 6,000 flee ‘terrifying’ violence in South Sudan town near Uganda: UN Juba, South Sudan | AFP | Fighting in the South Sudan town of Pajok sent over 6,000 people fleeing this week, with refugees recounting the slaughter of civilians by government forces, the UN refugee agency said Friday. Fighting …
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Two employees of Ministry of Finance have been charged with corruption before Uganda’s Anti-Corruption court and remanded to Luzira prison until April 13. John Charles Ogol, a principle finance officer together with Geoffrey Turyamuhika, a senior economist, appeared before Chief Magistrate Agnes Alum Friday and denied the charges. Prosecution alleges that …
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PICTORIAL: President Yoweri Museveni has met Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi who paid a courtesy call on him at State House, Entebbe on Friday. The King of Buganda’s delegation was led by the Kattikiro Charles Peter Mayiga. Uganda’s State House did not give details of the discussion, but posted photographs of …
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Outspoken feminist, academic and Uganda government critic Dr Stella Nyanzi had given a vibrant speech at Friday’s Kampala Metropolitan Rotary fellowship minutes before she was picked up by people said to be plain clothes security agents. Reports Saturday morning indicated she is in police custody and will be charged on …
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“Expedite trials, sentencing of prisoners” – President Museveni President Yoweri Museveni has called upon the judiciary to expedite trials and sentencing of prisoners. Speaking Friday at the pass-out ceremony of Uganda Prisons Services (UPS) Officers at the Prisons Academy and Training School Grounds in Luzira, the President said expediting trials …
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“Depression: let’s talk” says WHO, as depression tops list of causes of ill health WHO | GENEVA – Depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide. According to the latest estimates from the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than 300 million people are now living with depression, …
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Tunis, Tunisia | AFP | A Tunisian court handed a British DJ a one year jail term in absentia Thursday after he played a remixed recording of the Muslim call to prayer, a judicial source said. Dax J, who left Tunisia after last weekend’s set in the northeastern town of Hammamet, …
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Paris, France | AFP | Jemima Sumgong, the first Kenyan woman to win Olympic marathon gold when she triumphed at Rio in 2016, has failed an out-of-competition dope test, reports claimed Friday. The 32-year-old, who is also the reigning London Marathon champion, tested positive for the banned blood booster EPO …
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Washington, United States | AFP | The missile strike against a Syrian air base marks the first time the United States has directly attacked the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Here is what we know so far about the target and the outcome of the strike. – The target – At …
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The 136th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly chaired by Uganda’s Rebecca Kadaga, ended on Wednesday with the adoption of the Dhaka Declaration calling for urgent international action to save millions of people from famine and drought in parts of Africa and Yemen. The five-day assembly in Dhaka also took a resolution on …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
