Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University is poised for a major transformation as longstanding challenges of outdated and dilapidated infrastructure give way to ambitious modernization ...

Ntungamo District has constructed 35 new classroom blocks with tiled and terrazzo floors in government schools, alongside 50 five-stance VIP pit latrines across its constituencies.The district has ...

The National Assembly is expected to deliberate on the report of the Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committee which vetted Ida Odinga.

By the time Grace left school in Form 3, her future had already narrowed. Orphaned young and raised by her grandmother, she became pregnant before completing her O-Levels. "My uncles failed to take me ...

The Opposition enters a contest widely acknowledged to be structurally compromised. The campaign rhetoric is hopeful and defiant, with innumerable slogans of courage that act as booby-traps of ...

These prosecutions mark a rising pattern: as elections approach across Africa, the distance between digital civic space and ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has issued an urgent $1.6 billion appeal to address the escalating humanitarian crisis triggered by the ongoing conflict in Sudan.

The government has reduced soil erosion across 1.2 million hectares, a major step toward protecting rivers that form the headwaters of the River Nile and safeguarding water quality for millions of ...

The Minister for Energy and Green Transition, Dr John Abdulai Jinapor, on Wednesday, commissioned a new electricity meter manufacturing facility established by MBH Power Ghana Limited in Tema, ...

Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), remains at large two decades after the International Criminal Court issued its first arrest warrants against him and four of his commanders ...