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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The new campus for Arua Multi-purpose training Institute in Pajulu, Ayivu West ConstituencyBY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA CITY: FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025 The 227 youths are undergoing training in over 11 enterprises, which are considered to be of high public demand. The Master Card Foundation provided the funding through Muni University …
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By Josephine Osandru Mawua, TEREGO/MADI-OKOLLO: MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2025 In the wake of unbearable heat waves due to rising temperatures sweeping through East Africa and coupled with scarcity of water, living in a refugee settlement has been a mind-blowing experience in the Rhino Camp Refugee settlement in Terego and Madi …
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By Janeth Fridah KOBOKO: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 In an effort to save the environment from degradation, women in lobule Sub County in Koboko district have embarked on tree planting. Shifa Salama, a member of the host community in Lobule, said that they formed an association of over 84 women …
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By Jacklyne Mbonabyenja Kiryandongo: Tuesday February 25, 2025 In the vicinity of homesteads in Kiryandongo refugee settlement, clean well set vegetable gardens blossom. Majority of the backyard farms are operated by women who also practice mixed farming, intercropping, mulching, growing high breed crops, using organic fertilizers and carrying out irrigation …
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BY STEPHEN CANDIA ARUA: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025 There is a sense of wonder that has gripped the friends and neighbors of Charity Kayomirwoth, 31 and her colleagues Margaret Atimango and Gladys Piyic after they successfully turned a bushy and grove inhabited area along the banks of River Enyau in …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU PAKWACH: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025 In Panyimur, a town council bordering Lake Albert and River Nile in the West Nile district of Pakwach, fluctuations in the water level and reduction in the population of mukene (silverfish) are causing anxiety. This, coupled with limited adaptive capacity to cope …
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