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✳ Govt sponsored ✳ Govt sponsored diploma ✳ Private sponsored ✳ Mature age ✳ International applicants Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Makerere University and its Nakawa-based business school have jointly admitted 14, 538 undergraduate students under the private sponsorship scheme. According to the admission lists released by …

Tough new COVID-19 measures for travellers Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Going through Entebbe International Airport has always been a rough experience for the average traveller but COVID-19 prevention protocols could make your check-in and check-out even more cumbersome. Before the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc around the world and …

Why NUP is test case for EC boss Byabakama COVER STORY | Independent Team | The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has been dragged into two wrangles involving the National Unity Platform (NUP) of Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. The first is a fight between NUP and another opposition …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government Chief Whip Ruth Nankabirwa has come out to openly campaign for Lands Minister Persis Namuganza who is contesting against Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga for a position in the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the National Resistance Movement -NRM Party. “We want …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Joshua Cheptegei returned home from Monaco, where  two days ago he shattered the 5,000m World Record. He crossed the border from Kenya, where he landed earlier in the day on a Turkey Airways flight from Monaco. He is now headed to his training camp in …

  Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT & XINHUA | The new 5000m World record holder Joshua Cheptegei is expected back home today from Monaco. Cheptegei, Stephen Kissa,  Halima Nakaayi and Winnie Nanyondo flew into Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya early today aboard a Turkish Airlines. The athletes were received by …

Monaco, Principality of Monaco | THE INDEPENDENT | With an astonishing time of 12:35.36, Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei today added the track 5,000m to the 5,000m road and 15km world records he holds. World 10,000m world champion Cheptegei ran incredibly 11 consistent laps, closing in a time of 59.64 as he set …

TODAY ✳ M 5,000m final 10.13pm ✳ W 1,000m final 10.39pm Joshua Cheptegei -5000m Stephen Kissa (pacer) – 5000m Halimah Nakaayi – 1000m Winnie Nanyondo – 1000m Monaco, Principality of Monaco | THE INDEPENDENT |  There will be three pace setters in Joshua Cheptegei’s attempt to break the 5000m World …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda registered the highest number of new cases since foreign truck drivers were excluded from the country’s figures, with the Ministry of Health announcing 32 COVID-19 positives from tests done on August 13. The previous highest was 31 cases, last week on August …

MUSEVENI: The bottom line is that the Church will retain this land and we shall build a new church Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT  | President Yoweri Museveni has today visited the site of the demolished St Peters Church, Ndeeba and resolved to address the matter conclusively with the religious leaders. He early …