In 2001, the government undertook a disarmament exercise to rid the Karamoja sub-region of illegal arms and ammunition. The disarmament, carried out by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces ...

Gen Muhoozi’s posts come barely a day after UPDF soldiers raided a police station in Kampala and beat up officers ...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are scaling up the response to an anthrax outbreak in North ...

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...

As we continue headlong into the regurgitating inanity that is Uganda's rollercoaster elections, the gross contradictions that embody our governance and politics continue unencumbered.Dear reader, let ...

It's a national holiday that's anything but for the vast majority who make the wheels turn.Labour Day was never meant to be a photo op. It began with blood, sweat, and real struggle, think 1886 ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Lt Samson Amo, from the  Special Forces Command (SFC), and 12 other UPDF soldiers are ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | DFCU Bank and the Commissioner of Land Registration have been ordered by the court to pay ...

Father John Kyebasuuta marvels at what has changed — and what remains the same — every time he makes his annual trip to the ...

A former biology teacher-turned-environmentalist is on a crusade in Uganda to save the once-flourishing trees from which shea ...

Minigrids (small, local power systems that work independently from the main electricity grid) are becoming an important ...

Little did Father Ekisa realize when Pope Francis was elected to succeed Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, he was about to receive ...