BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU TEREGO: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2025 When he employed the conversational question and answer campaign stamina in Terego in 2016, President Yoweri Museveni received the majority votes in the ultimate elections. That time the president backed up the Q and A with promise of delivering hand hoes to …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2025 President Yoweri Museveni has warned the Ugandan electorate against the politics of sectarianism as the country drifts deeper into the campaigns ahead of the February 2026 elections. Museveni faces seven challengers in the presidential race that if he wins will extend his …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU MARACHA: Tuesday, October 14, 2025 President Yoweri Museveni has ordered a probe into the implementation of the Parish Development Model (PDM) in Maracha district. He assigned one of his aids, Capt. Babra Birungi to lead the investigations and arrest any thieves of the PDM funds. It follows …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: Saturday, 11 October 2025 It was a parade of colours as children from private primary schools and secondary schools in Arua district brightened the Independence Day spirit at Vurra sub county headquarters where the celebrations were held. Joined by jolly market vendors, the parade that lasted …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2025 When Gladys Ondoru’s husband succumbed to diabetes and high blood pressure in 2016, she waded into the unchartered waters of life as a widow where complications abound. A mother of six, Ondoru was the last of the three wives married to the deceased …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2025 The initiative is aimed at helping the masters of ceremonies and media panelists to create business venture to supplement their earnings. “Our biggest nightmare has been the exorbitant interest rates on loans, especially from money lenders. One time I borrowed sh500,000 and …
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By Josephine Osandru Mawua Madi Okollo, Uganda September 18, 2025 RHINO CAMP REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, Madi Okollo District. Under the relentless sun that pushes daytime temperatures past 40°C, the land in Rhino Camp settlement in Northern Uganda is cracked and parched. For the tens of thousands of refugees who fled conflict …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2025 The West Nile Development Association, an umbrella body bringing under a single platform the district local governments in the West Nile sub-region, is banking on a newly forged friendship with the European Union to accelerate the region’s development. Officials who recently visited …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU BWINDI: Sunday, September 28, 2025 In 2021 Fidelis Kanyamunyu and his colleague David Gonahase, both conservationists in Western Uganda, began the “My Gorilla Family App.” This was at the height of the Covid19 pandemic lockdown when lack of movement of tourists had wiped out conservation revenues. The …
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By Ezadri Michael Onyafia TEREGO: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2025 In the West Nile district of Terego where Tobacco growing as the main cash crop has dominated since the colonial times, environmental challenges abound. Deforestation arising from massive use of wood fuel for tobacco curing and opening of virgin lands for …
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