Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unknown people have hacked to death Livingstone Kasangaki 58, the LCII Chairperson of Kyakamese Parish in Pakanyi Sub County, Masindi district. The assailants waylaid Kasangaki as he was returning home from a trading Center at 2:30 a.m. They hacked him several times on the …
Read More »Minister demands probe into Masindi district officials over shoddy works
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Economic Monitoring in the Office of the President Peter Ogwang has ordered for the arrest of nine Masindi district local government officials for allegedly executing shoddy works on government projects in the district. The officials are John Kasaija, the Masindi municipal …
Read More »Gov’t of Poland to renovate graveyard of Polish refugees in Masindi
Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government of the Republic of Poland is set to renovate a graveyard left behind by the Polish refugees at Nyabyeya village, Budongo sub county in Masindi district. The graveyard that has 48 graves of some of the Polish refugees who died in Nyabyeya village …
Read More »Polish Embassy embarks on construction of a maternity ward at Nyabyeya health center
Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Nairobi based Polish Embassy has embarked on the construction of a fully-fledged maternity ward at Nyabyeya health center II in Budongo sub county in Masindi district. The embassy has contracted Bernard Alinaitwe Construction Company limited to undertake the Shillings 180million project. Rev. Father Peter …
Read More »Sugarcane farmers protest new price set by Kinyara
Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sugarcane farmers in Masindi district under their umbrella Masindi Sugar Cane Out growers Association Ltd -MASGAL are protesting the new price for sugarcane that was recently announced by Kinyara Sugar Limited for this financial year. The Association is the biggest supplier of sugarcane to Kinyara …
Read More »Masindi residents arrest police officer accusing him of extortion
Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Angry residents of Kiroya cell in Karujubu division, Masindi municipality in Masindi district have teamed up and arrested a police officer whom they accuse of extortion during the lockdown announced by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to curtail the further spread of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic …
Read More »Kinyara health center III closed after 8 staff test positive for Covid-19
Kinyara health center III operations have been temporarily suspended Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kinyara health center III in Kabango town council, Masindi district has been closed after eight health workers tested positive for COVID-19. The facility is located within Kinyara Sugar Works Company Limited premises and it serves the company …
Read More »Sinohydro hands over Masindi Military health facility to government
Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited through the contractor for the 600MW Karuma Hydropower Dam – Sinohydro Corporation Limited has boosted health service delivery in Masindi district after commissioning Masindi Barracks Health Centre IV. Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The health centre, whose construction started in September 2019, cost US$1.7million, …
Read More »Health Ministry rules out Ebola outbreak in Masindi
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Results from the samples of a man who died recently in Masindi district with Ebola-like symptoms have turned out negative. The 28-year-old man from Kitanyata 2 village in Kiruuli sub county was rushed to Masindi Hospital on Friday last week with severe fever, diarrhoea …
Read More »Resident dies with Ebola like symptoms in Masindi
Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tension is high in Kitanyata 2 village in Kiruuli sub county in Masindi district following the death of a resident with Ebola-like symptoms. 28-year-old Moses Abigaba died at Masindi Hospital on Friday where he had been admitted while hemorrhaging from the mouth, nose and other …
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