Tag Archives: Rubanda

Rubanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rubanda district residents and leaders have asked the government to establish a technical institute in the area. Curved out of Kabale district in 2016, there is no technical institute in Rubanda. Learners seeking technical education in the district are forced to access institutions in Kabale …

Rubanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The deputy speaker of Rubanda district, Pierre Mbabazi Nyetegyereize and two others are in trouble for alleged mismanagement of funds meant for the Kabale Journalists Emyooga Sacco. Mbabazi, who doubles as the Hamurwa sub county LC V councilor was arrested on Monday for fraudulently acquiring …

Rubanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Rubanda district have finally arrested a man who ran into hiding after torching his family home because of wrangles with his wife. The suspect is Denis Kwesiga, a resident of Bigyeegye village in Ikamiro parish in Muko sub-county. Patrick Abeneimwe, the Muko sub …

  Rukungiri, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Kigezi are demanding the establishment of a government hospital in the districts of Rubanda, Rukiga, and Rukungiri. The leaders argue that due to the lack of government hospitals in the three districts, all Covid-19 patients that need special management are taken to …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police in Rubanda District is hunting for a 45-year-old man who set his house on fire, burning his wife and children to death.  The suspect has been identified as Armstrong Vian 45, a businessman. The incident happened on Saturday in Habutobere village in …

Rubanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 57-year-old man who has been on the run for hacking his biological mother to death in Rubanda district has been found dead. Reuben Ruhamire’s lifeless body was found floating on Lake Bunyonyi on Wednesday following his disappearance on Saturday after hacking his 80-year-old mother, Grace …

Rubanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The opening of the maternity ward at Ruhija health centre II in Rubanda district has excited residents. Construction of the 80 million shillings maternity wing was funded by the Joint Medical Stores-JMS to eliminate infant mortality in the area. The development comes at a time when …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The rapid increase of HIV/AIDs among the Batwa community in Muko and Bufundi sub counties of Rubanda district is a result of trading sex-for-food, URN has learnt. An HIV testing and counselling camp organised by Kabale District Orphans and Vulnerable Children Living with HIV/AIDs –KADOLHA, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Resistance Movement-NRM officials in Rubanda district have clashed over attempts to compel them to support to Henry Ariganyira Musasizi, Rubanda County East parliamentary candidate. The officials clashed at a meeting convened at Bubaare sub-county primary school playground in Rubanda district on Friday by Musasizi …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thirty-two people have tested positive for hepatitis B in Rubanda and Kabale districts during the ongoing Hepatitis B screening and vaccination exercise. 26 of the cases are from Rubanda district while the remaining 6 are from Kabale. The Hepatitis B screening and vaccination exercise …