SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | Africa’s long battle against sleeping sickness may be approaching its final chapter as a new single-dose therapy gains international regulatory backing. The drug, acoziborole, received a positive scientific opinion on 27 February 2026 from the Committee for Medici
Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has delivered his first public statement, calling for unity among the Iranian people while acknowledging the hardships endured during recent conflict.The address, read on state television, expressed condolences to families who lost loved ones
A thunderous alarm has been sounded over Uganda’s lifeline for public medicines after the latest report from the Auditor General ripped open the operations of the National Medical Stores, exposing a web of operational failures, delayed drug deliveries, expired medicines worth billions and deep-
Speaker Anita Among (Middle) and other women activists at Parliament.The Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among has pledged that Parliament will support tax incentives aimed at increasing the production and affordability of reusable sanitary pads for schoolgirls across Uganda.Among comm
Mubende, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa has pushed back against critics within the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) who have questioned his loyalty to the party.He says his 15 years of service and repeated election victories for the NRM demonstrate his lo
She was defamed and, for months, character-assassinated by TikTok bully Dean Lubowa Saava but Deputy IGG Ann T Muhairwe on Thursday had the last laugh inside the Makindye chief magistrates court.Those days convinced he was the most powerful communicator in Kampala, Saava relentlessly attac
Iran's mullahs thought they had a plan to replace their fallen tyrant. Israel just turned that plan to rubble.As you know, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled Iran with an iron fist for nearly 37 years. A joint U.S.-Israel airstrike campaign finally took him out over the weekend. T
“Obote had his flaws, but he never stole our land.” NUP’s Paulson Luttamaguzi, the outgoing Nakaseke South MP has said former President Milton Obote was not a worse leader than President Yoweri Museveni, and that the people of Nakaseke and greater Luwero owe him an apology.Speaking d
In Uganda, things aren’t good at all following leaked information showing that several directors and Authority members of Uganda national drug authority (NDA) are on the verge of being arrested over willful refusal to obey lawful orders and directives issued by the country’s inspector general
The Namanve Industrial Park is now the largest in Africa and the hope of all Investors and people of Uganda was that it would become a World Class Facility.Unfortunately, reality check tells us that this dream must be thrown out of the window as so many issues, primarily due to its design,
