Tag Archives: Butaleja

Butaleja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Butaleja and Kibuku district Covid taskforces are struggling to enforce the restrictions on funerals as part of the measures to contain the spread of coronavirus. According to the taskforces, the communities in both districts have adamantly ignored the restrictions on the number of mourners. …

Butaleja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A nurse in Butaleja has died in a traditional shrine while seeking for medical care. Silvia Hasahya, a nurse attached to Busolwe hospital in Butaleja district and has been a resident of Bugangu village in Busabi sub county, died on Sunday at a shrine where …

Butaleja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A stray bullet fired by a police officer enforcing the nighttime curfew has killed a 12-year-old girl in Butaleja district. The deceased is Esther Nemwa, a daughter of Fred Mulesa, a resident of Namuselu village in Nabiganda town council. According to Mulesa, they had sent …

Butaleja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have launched a manhunt for unknown assailants behind the death of a pump attendant at Grassland fuel station in Butaleja town council. The 22-year-old Bob Wandage was found dead at the pump station on Monday morning. According to police, the deceased’s colleagues found his …

Butaleja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two people have died and eight others hospitalized after a church collapsed in Butaleja district. Namulemu Catholic Church in Namulemu village in Butaleja town council collapsed on Wednesday afternoon after a heavy hailstorm. A group of believers were hit by the wall of the church …

Welcome to the era of `deep fakes’ Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On Jan.21 Kayunga District Woman MP, Aida Nantaba, told Parliament that the killers of former Butaleja District Woman MP Cerinah Nebanda have attempted to kill her. She said Nebanda’s mother had warned her of the killers. “I …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Forum for Democratic Change- FDC wants parliament to provide a supplementary budget for the landslide and flood prone districts of Bududa and Butaleja. Last week, floods hit Butaleja district displacing hundreds of people. Five people were also killed by landslides in Bududa.  The most affected …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda is greatly indebted to Mwalimu Julius Nyerere and FRELIMO leader Samora Machel for their support to the country’s liberation struggle from the early 70s, President Yoweri Museveni has said. “This logistical support, training and ideological grounding is what laid a firm foundation for …

Over 200 rice farmers in Butaleja district have appealed to the government to set up an irrigation scheme at Doko 2 Rice Scheme to allow them have enough water for watering their rice. Rice farmers in the area, particularly Maizimasa sub-county say they have missed the planting due to lack …

By The  Independent Team Adam Kalungi, the prime suspect in the death of the late Butaleja woman MP, Cerinah Nebanda, has been convicted of manslaughter on grounds that he was negligent and never took Nebanda to hospital in time. The Makindye Chief Magistrate’s court, however, acquitted Kalungi on the other …