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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament plans to set up an electronic system that will allow members of the public who are unable to deliver their petitions physically in Kampala or through legislators to do so electronically. The plan is among the 25 targets Parliament has set for the …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has resolved to honour gold medalists, Joshua Cheptegei and Halimah Nakaayi for flying the Uganda flag high at the recent Doha IAAF World Athletics Championships. In October Cheptegei won the men’s 10,000 metres race, while Nakaayi picked gold in the women’s 800 metres …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has passed a motion condemning the recent brutality by security officers against Makerere University students protesting the 15 percent cumulative tuition increment. This followed a motion tabled by the Igara West MP, Raphael Magyezi. He urged parliament to make a statement condemning acts of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament Wednesday passed a motion moved by Igara  West MP Raphael Magyezi to have both the Mahatma Gandhi Conference Centre and Mahatma Gandhi Heritage Centre built at the River Nile in Jinja. He moved the motion after Members of Parliament questioned a decision by the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ndorwa East Member of Parliament Wilfred Niwagaba says ministers of finance are standing in the way of tabling proposals through which the Ugandan Opposition is seeking amendments to the Constitution that would lead to changes in the setup of government. Niwagaba, the shadow attorney …

The Hague, Netherlands | AFP |  While Boris Johnson scrambled Friday to sell his EU divorce deal to parliament, the Dutch port of Rotterdam handed out “Brexit Muppet” leaflets to truckers to prepare them for whatever happens. Staff at Europe’s busiest seaport have stepped up a campaign to ensure lorry drivers, …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Friday seek to sell his Brexit deal to sceptical MPs, as he returns home fresh from an EU victory but risking defeat in parliament. Johnson pulled off a major coup in agreeing a new divorce deal with the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister for Health, Dr Ruth Aceng has said that medical interns are not entitled to a salary. Presenting a statement to Parliament on the actions taken on the prayers contained in the petition by the federation of medical interns, Aceng said that Medical …

Tunis, Tunisia | AFP |  Just weeks after Tunisians rejected ruling political parties in the first round of presidential polls, voters are set to return to the ballot box on Sunday to elect a new parliament. Roughly seven million voters are spoilt for choice in this parliamentary election, the second since …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  More than 100 legislators have been listed as perpetual absentees from meetings that were scheduled in Parliament between the month of July 2017 and May 2018, the second year of the tenth parliament. At least 37 of these missed meetings scheduled all year through.   According …