BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025 The Parish Development Model (PDM), government’s latest flagship program for poverty eradication has given financing capital to 14,812 people in Arua city since 2022. The beneficiaries are from 54 savings and credit cooperative organisations (SACCOS), six of whom are from the Central …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: Thursday, August 14, 2025 A multi-million shillings family business that went nuts following the demise of two key founding members has rejuvenated following the creative intervention by Vicky Ozia Eyokia in 2023. An accountant by profession, Eyokia abandoned her business activities in Yumbe district to take …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025 The activities under the Operation Wealth Creation, a nascent government poverty eradication program in West Nile are expected to receive new impetus following the appointment of Rt Maj Gen Michael Ondoga, a distinguished army officer to oversee the program in Uganda’s North-Western …
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BY WILFRED LAMONY JWEE NWOYA: MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025 Juliet Layet, 28, is an enterprising farmer in Otingo Cung in Mulago cell Geyi ward in Koch Goma Town Council, Nwoya district. Layet, a member of Obol Farmers’ Group that has 57 members explains that she had used traditional hand hoes …
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BY Robert Mone LAMWO: MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025 Dorcus Anyiri, is a single mother at block 12, Zone 5B, a refugee settlement in Lamwo district who fled from unrest in South Sudan in 2017. Since her arrival, Anyiri has engaged in nursery bed management and tree planting to enhance her family’s livelihood, turning …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: MONDAY, JULY 14, 2025 They made the distress call on Sunday during a meeting with the former Mayor who visited the communities in orphanage cell, Pangisa ward as part of his campaign program. While the Congolese contingent said their biggest huddle was securing a burial ground …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: SUNDAY, JULY 13, 2025 Arua Central Division Member of Parliament, Jackson Atima, has said that his opponent Godfrey Obiga deserves a promotion in his employment at the National Identification and Registration Authority because he is a bright young man. However, when it comes to the position …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2025 Bernard Atiku, a contestant for the Ayivu West constituency National Resistance Movement party flag bearer has received a rare endorsement from his opponent Fiona Onzima for introducing Cocoa as a cash crop to eradicate poverty in the constituency. “Thank you Hon Atiku …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2025 The Ushindi primary and secondary school has staged an elegant road walk as part of publicity activities to celebrate 25 years of academic excellence. The main event is slated for July 12, 2025 at the secondary school campus. It is expected to …
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By Richard Drasimaku ARIA CITY: 22/6/2025 Atiku said at the current price, a farmer can earn about sh88m from one acre of cocoa plantation. When planted at the recommended spacing of 3m×3m, a farmer would have 450 cocoa tree and the trees yield between 1kg and 2 kg in first …
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