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Loose restrictions on hiring a car and the high resale value of the vehicle have made car rental in Uganda the number one target for scammers SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | Car rental in Uganda is such a lucrative business but most proprietors are hesitant to invest in it. This …

Is it really the most important meal of the day? HEALTH | AGENCIES | Breakfast is often described as the most important meal of the day, but is skipping this morning meal really detrimental to health? Breakfast literally means “to break the fast.” It is the first meal of the …

  How to choose the safest over-the-counter drugs By Leslie Kernisan Q: My 88-year old mother often complains of various aches and pains. What is the safest over-the-counter painkiller for her to take? Aren’t some of them bad for your liver and kidneys? A: Frequent aches and pains are a …

  Study in finds more mothers died in Uganda HEALTH | SARA JERVING | Pregnant women who were hospitalized with COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa died at higher rates and had more complications than non-pregnant women with similarly severe COVID-19, as well as pregnant women without the disease, according to a …

OBITUARY | RONALD MUSOKE | Prof. Rachel Nandawula Musoke, 78, passed away on May 30 after distinguishing herself in a 40-year medical career at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, where she is more known and celebrated than in her native Uganda. She began working as a neonatologist at Kenyatta …

Otuke’s sustainable green enterprise built on dreams SPECIAL FEATURE | RONALD MUSOKE | When Ojok Okello visited Okere Mom-Kok, his ancestral village in Otuke District three years ago, he hardly knew that would start one of the most ambitious social enterprise projects in Uganda. On a recent visit to Okere, …

SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting is the biggest postcolonial international conference that gathers all the former British colonial territories. A total of 53 countries gather together every two years in one of the commonwealth countries to discuss ways on how to further democracy, …

Africa is currently home to 136,000 millionaires, with their ranks on the rise. This is despite the continent’s total wealth dwindling over the past decade FEATURE | LEO KOMMINOTH | Africa’s share of millionaires grew by 8% between 2020 and 2021, according to a recent report by intelligence firm New …

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |  Tafara Mugwara – Xinhua | Twenty-year-old Mduduzi Jele is eagerly learning the art and craft of leather making from one of the industry’s seasoned experts. With steadfast determination, Mduduzi Jele, son of a leather technician, hopes to accumulate the prized skill so that he can also pass …

SPECIAL FEATURE | Top 5 Things to do on a Summer Vacation in East AfricaEvery year, a number of people make the decision to take a summer vacation in Africa. Despite the fact that a large number of individuals do vacation during the summer months, there are even more that …