BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023 Once considered extinct, Africa’s largest soft-shell turtle known as the Nubian Flapshell turtle has made an unexpected comeback in river Nile sections in Uganda’s West Nile and parts of South Sudan. However, the river shores along Enyau, a tributary of river Nile …
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BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: WEDNESDAY, 15 MARCH 2023 Adjumani district local government has launched the construction of a multi-billion Intensive Care Unit (ICU) worth Shs1.6 billion. The facility constructed with funding from the World Bank under the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP) will handle critical cases. Once completed, …
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BY KASLYNE GLADYS LAKAREBER PADER: TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2023 When Rose Latoo Mwaka, a former female councilor and resident of Pajule town council, was awarded a certificate by Pader district in recognition of her advocacy for women’s rights, she couldn’t hide her joy. The certificate of merit was handed to …
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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. …
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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), …
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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 …
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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 …
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