17, October 2022 By Alfred Atwau The Residents of Nursery cell, Nakatunya Sub County in Soroti City have raised complaints over the rampant garbage dumping in the community. This was happened Monday 17th October 2022 morning at Nakatunya main market where members were raising their complaints to the market authority …
Read More »Security Recover 100m From Pallisa
17, Oct 2022 By Lawrence Okwakol The security team chaired by Magidu Dhikusoka the Pallisa resident district commissioner has so far recovered valuables worth 100million. While addressing a press conference over the weekend, Dhikusoka said the security agents collaborated with their counterparts from other districts after a crackdown of 10 …
Read More »Wazalendo SACCO to support Emyooga &PDM SACCOs in Karamoja
By Eodu Timothy The management and board of Wazalendo SACCO (WSACCO) have pledged total support to the various SACCOs under the Parish Development Model (PDM) and Emyooga in Karamoja Sub Region.This was during the launch of it’s sixth cash Branch in Moroto district on Saturday 15th/ October 2022.According to the …
Read More »UNDERSTANDING THE LAND DISPUTE AFFECTING THE WADELAI IRRIGATION SCHEME IN PAKWACH
BY GEOFREY ACHORA PAKWACH: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 Forty-six kilometers north-west of Pakwach town along the Pakwack-Pawor-Arua road, the landscape was changing 12 months ago. Mushrooming office buildings, storage facilities, artificial reservoirs and dams and secondary water canals were turning a hitherto 1,000 hectares of underutilized land into what is …
Read More »Pallisa Leaders Resolve to Regulate Labour Export to the Middle East
Thursday 13, Oct 2022 By Lawrence Okwakol-Pallisa The Kamuge town council local leadership in Pallisa district on Tuesday afternoon resolved to suspend the recommendation of youths going to Middle East for domestic employment (kyeyo). The leaders reached to this resolution due to the rampant sale of land by most parents …
Read More »Amudat leaders pleased by local NGO value addition initiative to women groups
Friday, 30th September 2022 Timothy Eodu-Amudat The leaders of Amudat district in Karamoja region have expressed their gratitude to Karamoja Women Umbrella Organization KAWUO for their interventions to transform the society mindset into adopting value addition. KAWUO with the financial support from European Union-UN Spotlight initiative through UNDP has created …
Read More »Construction of Kitgum-Kidepo road to commence in 2023/24 FY
Friday, 23 September 2022 By Timothy Eodu-Parliament The construction of the Kitgum, Karenga to Kidepo National Game Park road is set to commence in the Financial Year 2023/2024. This was revealed in the floor of Parliament yesterday by the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister Robina Nabbanja while responding to the concerns …
Read More »ARUA POLICE IMPOUND 74 MORE CARTONS OF KILLER GIN
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 Exactly one month since the Uganda National Bureau of Standards and the Ministry of trade banned the production and sale of the City 5, a local gin attributed to the death of 17 of its consumers, the police have impounded 74 more …
Read More »CONTRACTOR ASKS FOR 18 MONTHS EXTENSION OF ATIAK-LAROPI ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 STRABAG, an Austrian construction company undertaking the tarmacking of the Atiak-Laropi road, has asked for an extension of the contract period for additional 18 months. Sources from the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) have confirmed that the contractor will not be able …
Read More »KOBOKO DISTRICT CLOSES CHARCOAL MARKETS FOLLOWING RJF SUPPORTED STORY ON MOUNT KEI FOREST RESERVE
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU KOBOKO: Monday, September 19, 2022 Koboko district has shut down eight charcoal markets at Busia border crossing following the Rainforest journalism Fund supported article on Mount Kei Forest Reserve. “I closed all the eight big markets at Busia where they were trading charcoal. There was resistance from …
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