📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P4 & P5 – April 6 ▶ S1 – April 12 ▶ S2 – May 31 ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – June 7 📌 UNEB EXAMS TIMETABLE ✳ April 9 ▶ UACE briefing ✳ April 12- May 3 ▶ UACE exams Kampala, …
Read More »Quarantine-free travel between COVID-free New Zealand and Australia starts April 19
Wellington, New Zealand | XINHUA | New Zealand’s successful management of COVID-19 pandemic means quarantine-free travel between New Zealand and Australia will start on April 19, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Tuesday. The conditions for starting to open up quarantine free travel with Australia have been met, Ardern told a …
Read More »COVID-19: Ketchup packs shortage hits market
Washington, US | THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new normal, seeing greater demand for takeaway meals, and ketchup packets to go with french fries in particular. The Wall Street Journal has reported a shortage in the US, with Kraft Heinz, which makes most of the …
Read More »Dr Kasibule is new President of Uganda Veterinary Association
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr Daniel Kasibule from Mpigi has been elected the new President of the Uganda Veterinary Association (UVA) for the 2021-23 term. Dr Daniel Kasibule, who has been Vice-President and is the District veterinary officer Mpigi District, takes over from Dr Baluka Syliva who served …
Read More »Archbishop Lwanga will be buried inside Rubaga Cathedral
Rubaga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala archdiocesan interim administrator, Msgr . Charles Kasibante has confirmed that the decease Archbishop Cyprian kizito Lwanga will be laid to rest in the historical Rubaga Cathedral church. Dr Lwanga will be the third prelate to be buried inside Rubaga Cathedral. The first …
Read More »Delegates oppose proposed fresh Umukuka election
Masaba Cultural Delegates Oppose Minister’s Proposal of Fresh Umukuka Election Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders from the Mwambu clan have resoundingly opposed a proposal by Marry Gorreti Kitutu, the minister of energy, calling for fresh election of the cultural leader, the Umukuka. Over the weekend during the burial of …
Read More »VIDEO: How thugs posing as NWSC staff robbed Sh100m from Kyambogo
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police are hunting four imposters who posed as National Water Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) staff to execute a robbery in which $4,500 and other currencies amounting to sh85 million was stolen from a private residence in Kyambogo, eastern Kampala. A video that was captured by CCTV …
Read More »Veteran journalist, former The Independent columnist Kavuma-Kaggwa dead
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Joseph Mukuba Kavuma-Kaggwa, the elder from Kyaggwe ” as he used to describe himself, has passed on this morning. Kaggwa was taken ill early today, and passed on about 5am. The veteran journalist, who worked for the Buganda Kingdom and in Kenya while in …
Read More »President Suluhu fires Communications, Ports Authority chiefs
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | The heads of the Tanzanian Ports Authority and Communications Regulatory Authority that have been in the headlines for the wrong reasons lately, have been fired by President Samia Suluhu Hassan. President Samia on Sunday fired the director of the Tanzania Ports Authority …
Read More »Doctors fail to trace bullet in Mary Achan 7 days after shooting
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It has been a terrible Easter for an innocent woman and her family who are traumatized as a bullet police accidentally fired at her a week ago has eluded medical workers who cannot trace it, even after using X-ray equipment. Whereas, the bullet clearly …
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