BY TIMOTHY EODU KOTIDO: SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2022 The site clearance for construction of a 2km long water dam to support pastoralism has commenced in Maaru sub-county in Kotido district. The dam named “Sinat” is being constructed with funding from the ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries. The sh25bn …
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BY MOSES OTIM KITGUM: Saturday, July 23, 2022 Farming has resumed in Namokora sub-county and the Naiboring sub-county of Orom East constituency and Kiteny and Namokora town council in Chua East constituency, Kitgum district after Karamojong worriers left the area. The warriors had invaded those sub counties in early January …
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BY TIMOTHY EODU KOTIDO: FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2022 A section of local leaders in Karamoja are proposing various ways to boost agricultural production and end famine. The local leaders say since karimojong livelihood rotates around cattle keeping, government should come up with various interventions that will allow them to keep …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU MOUNT KEI: FRIDAY, Jun 24, 2022 This story was produced with support from the Rainforest Journalism Fund in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. A rough, dusty road from Yumbe town in West Nile sub-region of Uganda passes through Mount Kei national forest reserve (formally known as Mount …
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BY CHRIS JAMES WOO OYAM: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2022 Oyam district in northern Uganda is eyeing a 40% increment in vegetable production through promotion of smallholder irrigation farming. However the district is placing its faith in the German Development Agency, GIZ to help it realize that vision. Last week it …
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By Richard Drasimaku OBONGI, NORTHERN UGANDA: Nov 17, 2021 From the far-flung horizon, the setting sun illuminates the skyline, its rays dappling the banks of River Nile where parts of Obongi town once blossomed. But beneath the spectacle lie the ruins of destruction – of shops, rental units, residential apartments, and grass-thatched houses. …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU WEST NILE: September 30, 2020 The thuds of hoes smashing into the ground reverberate across a panoramic outlay of gardens owned by South Sudan refugees. Each gardener is preoccupied with tilling the rented fields in the neighbourhood of Ofua III. The clunks vividly demonstrate efforts by the …
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ARUA: SEPTEMBER 02, 2020 This solutions journalism project investigating whether helping people fight poverty could protect wildlife was produced BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU with support from InfoNile and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network. A wildlife reserve is recovering from the heavy poaching of the 1970s and 80s A community’s efforts to reduce poaching by …
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