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  ❇AGREED 🇺🇬 🇷🇼 ✅ Cease hostile propaganda in all media ✅ Rwanda provided a list of people they say are detained in Uganda ✅ Agreed to finalize the extradition treaty ✅ Uganda to release all Rwandans that will have no charges to answer ✅ Those with criminal cases to answer …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Officers of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces have been cautioned against violation of human rights through acts like torture and illegal detentions. According to the Deputy 2nd Division Commander, Col. Anthony Lukwago, such acts taint the name of the institution and make the public …

Bugiri, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Centenary Bank has summoned its legion of CenteAgents to its Bugiri branch to continue serving customers as they work to restore normal service after a truck crashed into their offices. “The incident did not cause harm to any of our customers, or staff as the …

  Kigali, Rwanda | THE INDEPENDENT | Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa, Minister of Internal Affairs Maj. Gen J.J Odongo and Attorney General William Byaruhanga are in Kigali for the start of talks to end the diplomatic row between Uganda and Rwanda. The talks started this morning. The talks follow a pact signed …

How gross absurdities and misguided corruption fears have killed Uganda’s oil industry THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Uganda has been trying to get oil of out the ground for the last 12 years, having discovered reserves in 2007. Last week Tullow ended its proposed farm-down to CNOOC …

Will he flee or fight oil firms? Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | President Yoweri Museveni’s plan to get Shs 446 billion from Uganda’s Petroleum Fund to finance part of the budget deficit this year may have been dashed when Tullow Oil refused to cough up Shs 600 billion in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eight people have been killed and nine injured in an accident along the Jinja-Kamuli highway. The accident which occurred on Sunday involved a commuter taxi registration number, UAZ 861J from Jinja district that lost control after a tyre burst, knocking a motorcycle carrying two …

Bugiri, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Four people have been killed in an accident in Bugiri District. The accident occurred on Sunday at 5:30 am at Nakawa located in Busowa town along the Iganga-Tororo Highway. According to an eye witness Besweri Kawanguzi, the accident involved a Modern Coast Bus with …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Scientists at the National Agriculture Research Organization-NARO have made a breakthrough in developing an anti-tick vaccine which is expected to give a long-lasting solution to the tick problem affecting farmers. According to NARO’s Director-General Dr Ambrose Agona, the new vaccine has been developed by a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The little-heard-about National Buildings Review Board (NBRB) has finally spoken on the increasing number of collapsing perimeter walls built around people’s homes and other buildings in the city. Enock Kibbamu, the chairman of the board, says they were devising ways to make sure people …