Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders of the National Unity Platform-NUP party in Kasese have been remanded further after the prosecution failed to show up in court. The five were arrested by security personnel last month from Kamaiba ward in Kasese municipality, for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. They …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Prime Minister and Leader of Government Business in Parliament, Robinah Nabbanja, has informed legislators that Uganda’s education sector is on course to rolling out the new lower secondary school curriculum when schools reopen in January 2022. “Government has recruited and deployed 1,598 staff in …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday signed a short-term funding bill that will keep the federal government running through Feb. 18, 2022, avoiding a looming partial shutdown. “Funding the government isn’t a great achievement. It’s a bare minimum of what we need to get done,” Biden …

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A five-year-old boy is nursing severe wounds at Hoima Regional Referral Hospital, following an attack by a chimpanzee in Mparangasi village, Kyabigambire sub-county, Hoima district. The victim is Jonan Twine, a grandson of Julius Wamani, and a prospective pupil of Kyabigambire primary school in Hoima …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of legislators have called on government to grant a speedy trial to the royal guards of the Rwenzururu Kingdom who were arrested and detained in 2016 for abetting an insurgency. The MPs expressed their displeasure with the delay in resolving the matter stating …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Director of Public Prosecutions Jane Frances Abodo has decried the high levels of understaffing in her office saying that currently, at least 201 out of the 238 operational courts do not have prosecutors. This amounts to 84.4 percent of the courts lacking a prosecutor, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has pledged to increase funding towards efforts geared at combatting HIV/AIDS as the country celebrated Worlds AIDS Day. 1st December is designated as the international day for raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic. This year’s celebration was under the theme; “End Stigma, End Aids, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thirty-one Regional Police Commanders-RPCs have completed two months of leadership and command training aimed at retooling top police bosses amidst terror threats in the country. The graduates were part of the command and institutional leadership course intake 002/2021, which started on October 11th, 2021. The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Comedy Store Uganda has a new segment titled ‘The Chill’ where a panel of comedians will be tackling current affairs but this time with a good dose of humour, its proprietor Alex Muhangi said on Nov.30. Muhangi will host a set of celebrities, mostly comedians, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security have up to December 6th, 2021 to produce the widows of the late Sheikh Abas Muhammad Kirevu before High Court Judge Musa Ssekaana. “…. take notice that you are required to have the bodies of Nabadda, Nakachwa and Najjuuko produced in the said court …