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Over 65% of pregnant women using guess work to determine delivery date ✳ Only 31% Ugandan women do ultrasound scan ✳ Bukedi region only 7.8% ✳ Busoga 7.6% ✳ Uganda Maternal mortality rate 189 per 100,000 Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA  | Only 31% of pregnant women across Uganda are …

Crisis retreat after expulsions, sanctions and intrigue COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | For five days, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and Ugandan ambassadors were in a retreat in Jinja and top on the agenda was the diplomatic crisis Uganda is entangled in following the expulsion of an envoy from …

🔴 Uganda Golf ⛳ Open after 72 holes ✳ JR Akena 🇺🇬 73 73 71 70 | 287| +3 ✳ J Cwinyaai 🇺🇬 72 73 73  70 | 288 | +4 ✳ T. Okwong 🇺🇬 73 77 68 73  | 291| +7 ✳ Semakula 🇺🇬 78 71 75 73  | 297 | +13 ✳ Tumusiime …

    Women’s 3000m steeplechase FINAL 1. Sembo Almayew 🇪🇹 9:12.71 CR 🥇 2. Loice Chekwemoi 🇺🇬 9:18.84 PB 🥈 3. Diana Chepkemoi 🇰🇪 9:29.84 PB 🥉 5. Nancy Chepkwurui  9:47.47 PB 🟡 Today ✳ 3000m W finals – Keziah Chebet & Bentalin Yeko ✳ 3000m SC W final – Chepkwurui …

  Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  President Yoweri Museveni has acknowledged that a lot has to be done to improve the living standards in Northern Uganda. Museveni today graced a first ever regional sitting of parliament at the Kaunda Grounds in Gulu City. “The things to do are many, and there …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Katonga faction of FDC has applied to the Electoral Commission-EC seeking to reserve a name People’s Front for Freedom-PFF. The move marks the beginning of another splinter group from the  Forum For Democratic Change (FDC). The FDC was the largest opposition political party in …

Kiprop and Cherop win medals, ready to take over from Cheptegei and Chemutai U-20 men’s 5000m final 👏 🥇 Andrew Alamisi 🇰🇪 🥈 Abdisa Fayisa 🇪🇹 🥉 Keneth Kiprop 🇺🇬 U-20 women’s 5000m final 👏 🥇 Medina Eisa 🇪🇹 🥈 Mekedes Alemshete 🇪🇹 🥉 Charity Cherop 🇺🇬 Lima, Peru | …

  Museveni started his speech in his characteristic nonchalant style and somewhat turned to ‘lecturing’ fellow heads of state about Pan Africanism. Nairobi, Kenya  | EMMANUEL WANJALA – THE STAR KENYA |  Uganda President Yoweri Museveni threw guests into stitches while delivering his speech during the official unveiling of Raila Odinga’s …

Vatican | THE INDEPENDENT | Speaker of Parliment Anita Among last week had a private audience with Pope Francis in the Vatican, where she introduced to the world her twins. The Bukedea Woman MP met Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of the Vatican, who led her to the Pope …

Angola peace talks renew search for solutions COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | Details about peace talks between the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda in the Angolan capital, Luanda, on Aug.20 remain scanty but it has not deterred pundits from insisting that without Uganda’s issues being …