Why NUP MP Shamim Malende Was Nabbed After Returning from Treatment
Shamim Malende was arrested soon after her return from Nairobi, where she had been undergoing intensive medical treatment for three months. Authorities stated that her ar...
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Punching Above Poverty: Museveni Donates UGX 10M to Empower Kalerwe Boxing Youths.
Kalerwe’s narrow lanes buzzed with new purpose when news broke that President Yoweri Museveni had sent a cash gift of UGX 10 million to the Kalerwe Boxing C...
Ugandan-born Zohran Mamdani Tops Race for New York City Mayor
Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old son of renowned Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani and celebrated filmmaker Mira Nair, has stunned the US political establishment after pull...
ONC Launches Empowerment Initiative to Curb Youth Unemployment and Poverty
President Museveni, through the Office of the National Chairman (ONC), has unveiled a new empowerment initiative dubbed “Bannaku Tweyambe – Wealth Creation Empowerme...
Pallaso Raids Alien Skin’s Residence; Range Rover Burnt Down; 2 Hospitalised
Kampala, January 2, 2025 — Police in Katwe are investigating a dramatic case of aggravated robbery and malicious damage after musician Mayanja Pius, alias Pallaso, and...
How filmmakers can boost local economy
Film is a sensory medium that the viewer fully immerses themselves in. As they follow the characters who capture their imagination subliminally, they absorb other element...
Inside Uganda’s death by suicide puzzle
In June this year, Kampala registered the highest cases of suicides in a single month, most of them involving high-profile individuals. Mr Luke Owoyesigyire, the Kampala...
Uganda at 62: Where did we go wrong?
How old were you in 1962? I was 14 and I was very lucky because I happened to have been raised in Katwe (a suburb in Kampala), so I walked to Kololo Airstrip where the Un...
Namasagali alumni eulogise Father Grimes with theatre performances
Namusa-Gali, was a phrase used to mean greeting the train when the railway had just been constructed. Then, a small town along the Nile in Kamuli was a railway station; i...
Ndiga clan leader Bbosa shot dead, killers lynched
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unknown gunmen have been lynched after shooting to death one of Buganda’s leading clan leaders Sunday afternoon.Ndiga (sheep) cla...