Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police in Soroti City have arrested the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party President, Patrick Amuriat Oboi, and two Members of Parliament for staging a demonstration over the delayed cattle compensation of Teso War Debt Claimants. The demo has been dubbed “No Cow, …
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SOROTI, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Electoral Commission registered 71,301 new voters in the Teso subregion in the recently concluded general update of the National Voter’s Register exercise. The commission also recorded 46,517 applications of transfers of voters from different polling stations in the region. The voters were registered …
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KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Japan has donated five firefighting trucks to the Uganda Police Force (UPF). The donation comes a day after the Sunrise hotel building was gutted by fire, which took nearly four hours to completely contain. The firefighting trucks were received on Thursday by the Inspector …
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KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Law Society (ULS) has condemned the escalating acts of violence witnessed during the Kawempe North parliamentary by-election campaigns. Addressing journalists at the Uganda Law Society Secretariat in Kampala, the ULS President Anthony Asiimwe said that the actions of security personnel who include …
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KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police have identified the names of two people who died in the Wednesday fire that gutted the Sunrise Hotel Building in Kampala. The fire, which started at around 10:00 am, was in the basement shops of the Sunshine Hotel Building, located near Namayiba …
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KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) and Uganda Police Force (UPF) have remained cagey on who deployed the Joint Anti-Terrorism Taskforce (JAT) that has terrorized opposition supporters in the ongoing Kawempe North By-election campaigns. UPDF Spokesperson, Acting Maj Gen Felix Kulayigye and Police Spokesperson, …
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA | TASS | French President Emmanuel Macron has been trying on new Napoleonic armor for a long time and aspires to lead the European “war party”, said Leonid Slutsky, the head of the State Duma’s committee on international affairs and leader of the LDPR Party. “The French leader’s …
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KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Any Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) personnel or civilians hoping for free medical services at the Shillings 143 billion Mbuya Army Hospital should reconsider their expectations. According to Dr. Ben Mbonye, chairperson of the hospital’s steering committee, the facility will operate as a self-sustaining, …
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KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The United Nations (UN) has launched an appeal to raise 11.2 million dollars to fund national response efforts against the Ebola Virus disease, which was detected in Uganda in January 2025. While the Health Ministry officials had announced on February 18 that the country …
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TEL AVIV | TASS | Israel’s new Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has said that 2025 will a year of war focused on the Gaza Strip and Iran, the Jerusalem Post reported. According to the newspaper, Zamir told the high command that other fronts will be in focus of attention as well. …
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