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KABAROLE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021 The parliamentary committee on health has inspected health centers in the districts of Kabarole and Bundibugyo with an aim of assessing their status. The MPs said they were interested on finding out how different projects in the respective health centers are being implemented, the staffing …

GULU: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021 The Acholi religious leaders have been asked to preach against teenage pregnancies and early marriages in their routine sermon and talk about good moral behaviors. Charles Serwanja, the manager Public Health and UNFPA Coordinator at Inter-religious Council of Uganda (IRCU) said there are increasing teenage …

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. …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU PAKWACH: July 23, 2021 Every month Jimmy Olore, a self-confessed hippopotamus hunter and his folks from Pujwang Village make up to six forays along a three kilometer journey on River Nile to Pakwach Bridge. This is one of the spots in the Murchison Falls National Park (MFNP), …

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 …

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 …