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Vendors in Gulu main market continue facing power outages due to the failure of the city authorities to fuel the standby generators to provide alternative power during blackouts. The more than 200 million Shillings generator has been lying idle for nearly seven years since it was installed. Gulu Main Market

The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) held a ministerial forum on Day 0 of AfricaCom 2022, bringing together participants from Malawi, Namibia, Uganda, and Zambia. The session focused on methods to engineer a new sense of hope for Africa’s digital economy journey. Under the theme ‘Rise Stronger with Digital Economy: New

Some schools on Tuesday started the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE without invigilators. In Mukono District, Seeta Umea Primary School, St Catherine Primary School, Kimanje Primary School, and Jinja Misindye Primary School, exams started before the arrival of invigilators. URN has established that some of the schools had already contacted the District

The third term will close earlier as one of the means to prevent the likely spread of Ebola in schools, the Ministry of Education and Sports has finally confirmed. Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu, the Minister in charge of basic education, says that the school term has been reduced by two weeks

Delays in the distribution of papers could affect the start of the Primary Leaving Examinations. In areas that URN reporters have so far visited across the country, the distribution of the papers has been delayed. According to the Uganda National Examination Board, PLE exams are supposed to kick off at

The global climate conference continues to be a blame game platform between the underdeveloped global south and the more industrialised global north for the failure to tame climate change. The 27th Conference of Parties, COP27, happening at Sharm el Sheik, Egypt has attracted more than 35,000 participants from about 200

The sudden death of a baby shortly after vaccination has landed two medical workers from Daphine Medical center in Kabalagala in Kampala in trouble. They are Dr. Doreen Akuku and Joan Nabakooza, a nurse at the facility. The two are locked up at Kabalagala Police Station in connection to the

The horticulture sector is losing at least Sh45 million on average every day due to the ongoing strike by Kenya Airways pilots, which has seen hundreds of tonnes of perishable produce that were to be flown out by the carrier stuck at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The industrial actions, which

Over 8,000 alluvial miners -both Karimojong and non Karimojong- in Chepkararat village of Lokales sub county in Amudat district in Karamoja region are living in fear following a suspected move by a mining company to evict them. However the mining company visible in the area has disassociated itself from any