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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers in Teso are counting losses after an invasion of caterpillars on sweet potato gardens in the districts of Ngora, Serere and Soroti. The caterpillars were first sighted in Ngora district in a pest and disease surveillance report conducted by the Production and Marketing Department last …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Activists and local leaders in Entebbe Municipality have launched a campaign against sexual harassment. The campaign, Tonkosa, which means ‘Don’t hurt me’, aims at helping under-aged girls to fight against sexual harassment. In 2020, the Ministry of Education registered more than 100,000 cases of teenage …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has paid glowing tribute to the late Hope Kishande Kivengere, his first and longest serving Press Secretary (1986-2001) who passed on this week on Wednesday from Nakasero Hospital. In a message read by the Minister of the presidency Mariam Dhoka Babalanda …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | BMK-Uganda Ltd has until the end of this week to hand over the National Isolation Centre in Manyago, Entebbe municipality. The work which started in 2019 had initially stalled because of a COVID-19 induced lockdown which was announced in March 2020. But in the aftermath, the …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Obusinga Bwa Rwenzururu-OBR cultural Institution in Kasese District is set to hold coronation anniversary celebrations for the first time in six years. It will be the first celebrations since the arrest of Charles Wesley Mumbere. Mumbere faces treason, terrorism and murder charges arising …

Buikwe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Land, Housing and Urban Development, Judith Nabakooba has suspended all Buikwe land official activities for three weeks over irregular land transactions. She also wants that a report after the three weeks, and in case any irregularities are found to be made by …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nearly nine months of search for missing Immaculate Asio Onebe, has come to an end after DNA analysis confirmed that the body retrieved from her matrimonial home’s septic tank is hers. Asio went missing on January 6 and since then the search for her has …

  Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian police said on Monday they arrested a Tanzanian national in connection with trafficking 16 illegal Ethiopian migrants. Ulrich Matei, the Mbeya regional police commander identified the suspect as 30-year-old Yohana Adam, a resident of Kasumulu in the country’s southern highlands district of …

Health Workers refuse to take COVID-19 vaccine Lyantonde, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 task force in Lyantonde district is investigating health workers who refused to take the COVID-19 jab. Lyantonde Resident District Commissioner Catherine Kamwine says that the task force was perturbed to learn that the people who …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers under their umbrella organization, Network for Public Interest Lawyers-NETPIL have called upon the government and its security agencies to stop what they called normalization of extrajudicial killings. Speaking on Friday at Makerere University where the School of Law was launching a report on …