Kabale, Uganda | URN | A three-month power blackout in Habubare Trading Centre and surrounding villages in Kabale District is crippling businesses and worsening insecurity, leaving residents frustrated over what they describe as inaction by the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL). Electricity consumers in Habubare Trading Centre and six surrounding …
Read More »Police starts poultry project to support officers’ wives
Kabale, Uganda | URN | The Uganda Police Force has started an initiative to support wives of police officers with a poultry project as a way of boosting household incomes and promoting self-reliance. The Assistant Inspector General of Police and Chief Political Commissar, Ubaldo Bamunoba, on Thursday held a closed-door …
Read More »2025 PLE: 35 candidates to repeat class over malpractice in Kabale
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | All 35 candidates who sat for the 2025 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) at Rushabo Primary School in Kahungye Sub-County, Kabale District, have been advised to repeat the class after investigations by the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) confirmed that they were involved in examination …
Read More »72 youths arrested in Kabale over alleged nationwide job scam
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Kabale District on Thursday evening arrested 72 youths in connection with an alleged scamming operation that has reportedly been targeting people across the country. The arrests were made during an operation at the Gleam Supermarket building along the Kabale–Mbarara Road in Central …
Read More »Rugunda hails Museveni for improving life expectancy, cutting infant mortality rate
Rukiga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda has praised President Yoweri Museveni for what he described as major improvements in Uganda’s health indicators, noting significant gains in life expectancy and reductions in infant mortality. Rugunda made the remarks on Tuesday while addressing NRM supporters gathered at …
Read More »Kabale man electrocuted, suspected of having been stealing fallen wire
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Silvester Byaruhanga in his 30s was on Saturday been electrocuted in Kabale District. It is suspected that he was trying to stealing a live electric wire that had fallen off the 3-phase line. The incident happened early morning at Mundeeba Timber business centre in …
Read More »Clinical Officer who confessed in Church to killing transferred to Kabale
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 24-year-old clinical officer who, over the weekend, confessed in church to killing a 45-year-old woman in a lodge has been transferred from Kampala to Kabale for further investigations. Clinton Mwesiime, a clinical officer attached to Hamurwa Health Centre IV in Hamurwa Town Council, Rubanda …
Read More »Kabale RDC orders investigation of companies over incompetence
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Godfrey Nyakahuma, Kabale Resident District Commissioner has ordered for investigation of five companies over incompetence. The companies are: Treijing Engineering Services Limited, Adwyc Contractors and Suppliers Limited, JIT Projects Limited, Adix Plumbers and Engineers Limited and Redstone Holdings Limited. Adwyc was contracted to rehabilite …
Read More »Kabale procurement officer petitions court over interdiction
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale High Court has fixed July 10, as the date to start hearing a petition in which Mercy Atuhaire ,the Kabale district senior procurement officer protesting her interdiction. In a letter dated June 18 and signed by John Asiimwe, Kabale District Chief Administrative Officer, …
Read More »School ordered to pay shs25 million to father of abducted child
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court sitting in Kabale has ordered the management committee of Bishop Asili Nursery Day and Boarding Primary School in Kabale Municipality to pay 25 million Shillings to Tadeo Ruzindantaro as general damages over the disappearance of his daughter. The case stems from …
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